Spring/Summer 2009 – Please Pray

I look to the mountains; where will my help come from? My help will come from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121.1, 2 (GNT) China Thank God for the successful expansion of the Amity Printing Press facility in Nanjing in 2008. Pray that its increased… Read More

Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa

Home-Based Care workers visit an HIV/AIDS patient in a poor area of Nairobi, Kenya. African Evangelistic Enterprise, supported by the Bible Society in Australia (New South Wales), is running an HIV/AIDS Awareness Project and a Home-Based Care Project in areas like this one. Photo by Martin Johnson. In his… Read More

New Hope for the Blind in Burkina Faso

Rev. Tarnagda (who is visually impaired) proudly displays the New Testament in Mooré Braille in the yard of the Boulsa Center for the Blind, Burkina Faso. Photo by Boubakar Ouedraogo. The ceremony took place on March 24 at the headquarters of the Bible Society of Burkina Faso (BSBF) in… Read More

Record Spring/Summer 2009 Issue

Delivering Hope: The Bible in Rural China; Together for Africa; Good News for Veterans; Shelter and Strength Download this issue

In Memoriam – Spring/Summer 2009

Mrs. Oswanna Dickerson Given by Mrs. Nadia T. Cavner Joe DiMarco Given by Fred H. Simon Fern Drechsel Given by Irma M. Lucht Helen M. Hahn Given by Berks County Community Foundation… Read More

Quiet Time

Receive Daily E-mail Devotionals Sign Up Here April 2009 – Called to be Free to Rejoice in Hope 1 – Isaiah 49.1-26 2 – Isaiah 49.1-26 3 – Isaiah 52.1-12 4… Read More

Serving Those Who Serve

The timing was perfect, Veterans Day heads into the holidays,” says Ron Craddock, chief chaplain at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia. “We’d already handed out many [Bibles] — they were going fast.” James R. Taylor, chief chaplain at the VA Medical Center in Tampa, Florida, wrote, “I… Read More

Shelter and Strength

WOW JAM: During outreaches in New Orleans and Houma, LA, 600 Elementz of Life™ magazines and over 1,900 New Testaments were given to those who made commitments to Christ, including Timothy Bolden with raised arm. Photo by Tonya Wilder-Butts, ABS You give them something to eat,” was Jesus’… Read More

Shaping a Good News Culture

Photo by David Singer Gabe Lyons is a man on a mission to recapture the redeeming influence Christianity has in shaping culture. As coauthor of a challenging new book, he rattles off national studies he commissioned that show Christians are too often known for what they oppose rather… Read More

The Challenge of the Great Commission

Photo by Andrew Hood Riding through the rural countryside of Burundi, you cannot help but be impressed by the vastness of the African landscape. One easily could get lost traveling the cratered roads that twist along the lakes, mountains and forests. Despite the fact that Burundi is one of… Read More