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At the risk of sounding like a "celebrity preacher"......
Personal blog posted by Lahry Sibley on March 11, 2010 at 10:13am
I wish to present to you and real and present need. Bibles. Some
of you know that I have been to India and other places. In a typical
village church in India, Pakistan, and other places of like kind, the
pastor and maybe one or two others own a Bible in their own language. When
I was in India, I was preaching in one of these villiages. At the end
of the service, my pastor/host called this elderly lady up who was
standing in the back of the group (the church was merely a thatch roof
over dirt.) She came up and she held to her heart a peice of folded
plastic. The pastor took it from her and unfolded it. Inside were about
3 pages of a Bible. It was all she had, and it was a treasure to her.
She felt blessed to own it and she carried in honor over her heart, as
do the brothers and sisters who own a Bible.
This is so foreign to us who own mulitple Bibles, e-bibles and reference material almost without limit. ... So,
I have several pastors in India and Pakistan whom I have maintained
communication with and I trust them. Bibles can be purchased locally in
their country in the language of the people for about $3.00 US. For a
meer $3.00 you and I can give a Bible to a person who can read, but has
never owned a Bible in their whole life. The promise from the local
pastors, is that if you or I donate a Bible, our names will be written
inside the Bible and the person who receieves the Bible will be asked
to pray for the donor.
Now, that may not seem like much to you
and I who are so spoiled by the riches and cares of this world. But you
need to be aware of this. These people routinely arrive at church 2
hours before service time, and get on their knees and face before God
on dirt or hard concrete floors and pray. They awake early in the
morning, every day, and pray. They are a praying people. To be honored
by having them praying for you and I is not easy for us to comprehend. I
can tell you God answers their prayers, for they have no other gods
before Him. In fact, they have practically nothing at all of a material
sense. They don't know what WalMart is. Most don't know what a cell
phone is, nor an HD TV. They walk everywhere they go, some walk miles
to church. Pastors usually pastor in more than one village. They must
walk up and down rocky mountain roads to get from place to place.
If
you are interested in helping with Bibles for believers, contact me by
private message or my email:lahry4u@yahoo.com. My pledge to you is that
I will pay for the Western Union charges to send the money to the
pastors. They will in turn purchase the Bibles locally, photograph them
and some of the recipients and we'll post them here for your joy and
God's glory. 100% of what you send, will get to the need. How much
is $3.00 dear saints? Who can't shell out $3.00 a month, a week, a day?
The value for the buck is off the chart in the kingdom of God. You,
your church group, Sunday School class, your church can all
participate. Words cannot articulate the joy and eternal outcome of
such a gift of love to someone who cannnot possibly pay you back.
Selah. Pray about this. If God moves on your heart, contact me. You can
purchase as many as you like. Just let the Lord lead. God bless you one
and all.
Bro. Lahry
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