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Bibles Are Here

We’ve raised $3,030 for the Bibles to date! Unfortunately, we’ve had to enter “PLAN B” on this project since our 10,000 free Bibles are no longer available, (we don’t know why). We got a great deal from the Paraguayan Bible Society on a Bible for $2.45 each, so that brings us to a total of 1,216 Bibles that we were able to buy. This is a picture of the Bibles that just arrived today!!
We are going to work through churches and evangelists that are associated with the APEP (Association of Evangelical Pastors in Paraguay) to distribute the Bibles. We will ask the churches to give a very small token donation, so they don’t take more than what they really will distribute. The idea is not to give the Bibles to Christians who already own Bibles, but to people who have yet to own their own Bible (unfortunately, we do have some Christians without Bibles in our churches).

We are very excited about this project coming together. We are so thankful for your sacrifice to get the Word of God into Paraguayans’ hands. We look forward to giving you an update on the actual disbursement of the Bibles and sharing lots of pictures next month.
We can’t wait for 1,216 more Paraguayans to have the Word of God touch their lives!

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  1. That is WONDERFUL! I am so happy that you guys are going to be giving this gift to so many Paraguayans. Actually, Shaun and I own that exact Bible. I will pray that the Lord would open the heart of each person receiving the Bible so that the words in it would change their life.

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