No more feeling guilt about this ONE thing!

Do you ever stare at that pile of extra Bibles in your basement and feel GUILTY because you know that “somewhere” “out there” Christians don’t have enough Bibles? That pastors in a village share one Bible, cherish a single page, etc. etc.?

Well, I’ve felt guilty for years about this exact situation–but no more.

After checking with Fred (after all, one of the reasons why we hadn’t given them away before now was because they had sentimental value to us … the Bible that I was given the night I was saved; a Bible from Fred’s college/Urbana days, etc.), I boxed them all up and shipped them to:

Christian Resources Incorporated

Fred and I learned about this ministry a few months ago and we’ve had enough contact with their leaders and volunteers to say that–WOW!–they are great people doing a great work for eternal reasons.

My next goal is to dig out any old sermon tapes and unused old Walkmen and box them up too–they said that old cassette players and sermon tapes would help to outfit SEMINARIES in developing nations! I could hardly believe it–those tapes have sat in my files unused, unlistened to for YEARS.

But no more.

Maybe as you think about the joy of receiving gifts this Christmas, you’ll also consider sharing–not necessarily cash (although that would be great); not something new … just something old and unused that’s in an attic, a garage … it’ll probably be thrown away one day or sold at a garage sale for “10 for ten cents” or something.

Seriously–we can’t even imagine how much our “junk” might mean to our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world.

(Their recent newsletter even explained how a TWENTY-YEAR OLD outdated set of ENCYCLOPEDIAS was enough for a CHRISTIAN SCHOOL to get LICENSED by a government after having tried for YEARS to get government approval. Amazing.)

Christian Resources Incorporated was founded by a junk dealer who recognized that one person’s “garbage” is another person’s TREASURE. Kind of like us, eh? We can be judged, criticized, and gracelessly rejected by the world, friends, coworkers, even our fellow church and family members …

But God says that we are the apple of His eye.

No more dusty Bibles! Let’s get ’em out to God’s children.

Love you guys,
Tara B.

You can SHIP materials to:

Christian Resources Incorporated
PO Box 356
200 Free Street
Fowlerville, MI 48836

Oh, and I’ve learned through them that most books donated to your local rescue mission / charity are thrown away or destroyed as scrap … so please consider, instead, sending them to Christians! They will be cherished and used for God’s glory.