Communicating through the web helps keep military family relationships afloat during deployment. Jason's father is stationed in Afghanistan. A new football, a gift for his 14th birthday, sits untouched in his room until he and his father can break it in. One morning, in the midst of the morning… Read More
Students at a public school in Managua, Nicaragua, after receiving Scriptures from the Bible Society of Nicaragua. American Bible Society is currently funding Scriptures for the Indian Miskitu people and for children with cancer there. Art Borden helped set up the Bible Society… Read More
Sidewalk Prophets lead singer Dave Frey (Photo by Andrew Hood.) Picture 10,000 young people with hands raised in complete surrender; eyes closed in total reverence; mouths wide, voices loud, worshipping with absolute abandon. Welcome to Winter Jam and Winter Fest 2011. At each concert, audiences experienced powerful worship… Read More
(Photo by Chris Leaman.) “I am more positive and understanding and a lot less selfish! There was a girl who came in my dorm and stole from me. I was mad at first but I read my Bible and let it go and (I) forgave her.” So said Lauren… Read More
Photo of Cain and Abel (woodcut by Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld) by ©iStockphoto.com/AmericanBibleSociety. Did you know these oft-used phrases came from the King James Version Bible? “…Am I my brother's keeper?” (Genesis 4.9) “To every thing there is a season…” (Ecclesiastes 3.1) “…neither cast ye your… Read More
ABS Executive Vice President Julia Oliver hands out water bottles with invitations to Bible Talk Tuesday at the 59th Street subway entrance. (Photo by Drew Segawa.) In a spirit of outreach, 12 employees from American Bible Society handed out 3,000 water bottles and fliers in May, inviting New Yorkers… Read More
A working model of the Gutenberg Press at Passages exhibition. (Photo by Judy G. Rolfe.) Passages, a remarkable Bible exhibition that premiered at Washington D.C.'s Vatican Embassy, brought together church and political leaders to celebrate the King James Bible at 400. Co-sponsored by American Bible Society and the Green… Read More
(Photo by Amber Boutut.) On May 27, the CongoSister Bike tour, themed “Carrying Her Story,” took off, cycling from Florida to Maine. The team of 11 college students and recent grads is investing their time and energy to fulfill a promise to the women in Eastern Congo that “We… Read More
In February, American Bible Society participated in the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. A chief focus was seeking to raise awareness of She's My Sister™ — an ABS initiative that responds to the vicious acts of war that have left women broken and children orphaned in the Eastern Democratic… Read More
Though 10 years have passed since the attacks on lower Manhattan, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania, many of us can instantly recall vivid images from that day. In the aftermath, American Bible Society was on the scene ministering to the first responders at Ground Zero and the victims of… Read More
