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Help provide Bibles to every believer in a hostile area or restricted nation! |
400,000 Bible Challenge A BIBLE FOR EVERY BELIEVER |
| Christians in the world’s most difficult and dangerous places to follow Christ are asking for God’s Word, despite the risk they may face for owning a copy. Today, you can help fulfill their request! We invite you to help put Bibles into the hands of Christians in hostile areas and restricted nations through the 400,000 Bible Challenge. In restricted nations, where governments forbid and tightly control Christian activities, VOM workers smuggle print and digital Bibles through covert means. In hostile areas, where Bibles are difficult to obtain or to deliver in remote areas, VOM workers do whatever it takes to reach Christians asking for God’s Word. We invite you to join a unique opportunity to provide 400,000 print and digital Bibles to Christians in hostile areas and restricted nations. A group of generous friends have already given to provide the first 100,000 Bibles to Christians in hostile areas and restricted nations. Now, they are challenging others, like you, to help provide an additional 300,000 Bibles! We invite you to join this effort to get God’s Word into the hands of Christians in some of the spiritually darkest places on earth.
Faithful Christians like Leo are risking everything for the sake of the gospel. Leo was arrested and imprisoned for commissioning the printing of several thousand “unofficial” Bibles (unregistered with China’s Communist government). When the coronavirus pandemic began, the detention center he was held in stopped all communication from outside the prison. Leo received no letters or visits and had no contact with his family or lawyer. Since court hearings were suspended during the coronavirus outbreak, his case didn’t come before the court for eight months. In the end, he was sentenced to a year in prison. “The situation in the prison was far worse than I could have imagined,” Leo said. “We slept on boards on the cement floor. In winter, we had quilts so dirty you couldn’t tell what color they were. They smelled so foul and moldy that sometimes I had to plug my nose just to sleep.” But despite the isolation and uncertainty, Leo still had peace in Jesus Christ. “That year in the detention center was a period of physical, mental and spiritual training for me,” Leo said. “But I always had peace. I knew that God, whom I depended on, would save me.” Today, Leo is out of prison but continues to be monitored by authorities. He knows, however, that God will continue to use him to spread the gospel. We invite you to join the Challenge! Thank you for joining in fellowship with our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ.
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