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Amy Grant: Experiencing a Rich History of God's Word
Amy Grant and Dr. Liana Lupas. Photo by David Singer.Dr. Liana Lupas, keeper of the largest collection of Bibles in the Western hemisphere, has a contagious appreciation for the American Bible Society’s collection of some 45,000 copies of Bibles and New Testaments. She often has opportunity to share her enthusiasm with Bible specialists - specialists that you might expect: history…
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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)ChinaThank God for the successful expansion of the Amity Printing Press facility in Nanjing in 2008. Pray that its increased capacity to print Bibles can match the demand for Scriptures in the expanding church…
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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 strategy report on how best to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Mark Forshaw…
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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 Ouagadougou. Many representatives from Churches and from societies and government organisations set…
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Delivering Hope: The Bible in Rural China; Together for Africa; Good News for Veterans; Shelter and Strength Download this issue
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The People of Moab
What can you tell me about the people of Moab in Genesis? — Mickey Formato, by e-mailGenesis 19.30-38 tells the unusual story of the births of Lot’s sons Moab and Ben-Ammi. Moab is said to have become the father of the Moabites, and his brother the father of the people of Ammon. Moab is both a personal and national name.…
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