International (MNN) ― As the years' end approaches, Christian Resources International's Fred Palmerton says there are a lot of believers anxiously awaiting a shipment of Bibles, devotionals and children's materials. "It just touches my heart so much for those people that can't get the Word of God over there, someplace overseas. They're waiting, and they're wondering, 'Did CRI get the money to ship my books?'"
CRI gets more than 250 letters a month from pastors and Christian workers in developing countries whose churches have no Bibles or Christian books. The reports they've collected over the past 50 years indicate that the pastor of a typical developing church may have access to one copy of the Bible, often shared with other pastors, and perhaps one or two theological books.
Many have less than that. CRI regularly receives requests for help from pastors who do not have even a New Testament to use in their pastoral work. That's why CRI works through the community of Christians in North America.
They take donated used materials and send them to missionaries and national pastors overseas, equipping them for their ministries. Over 100 categories of donated resources are stored at CRI until they are shipped to Christians around the world who request them.
From Bibles to children's books, commentaries to cassettes, there's very little Christian material that isn't desperately needed by missionaries overseas.
However, they're being held back by a lack of funds. "The greatest need right now, with the end of the year coming, is shipping funds for all of those books stacked up in our library. We've got containers waiting to go to India, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Liberia, South Africa."
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