Arrival of the last Great Crate shipment to India.
International (MNN) ― Christian Resources International's current supply of Bibles is at an all-time low. They just sent a Great Crate to India, but the resource shipment was 20 boxes short, and there's only a few Bibles left on the shelves.
To demonstrate the need, CRI typically sends between two to four Great Crates a year. Each one is 15,000 books.
That's enough to bring the word of God to thousands and thousands of families. These resources are distributed to help pastors and new seminary graduates in ministry. CRI welcomes used Christian books, Bibles, and other materials.
There are many pastors who are struggling to tend their flocks, in the absence of resources, with little or no written material to aid. CRI can send a collection of the most desperately-needed theological resources (commentaries, study Bibles, and reference works) to a pastor on CRI's waiting list.
Research indicates that the average American Christian owns nine Bibles and is actively in the market for more. At CRI, they get more than 250 letters a month from pastors and Christian workers in developing countries whose churches own no Bibles or Christian books.
Every day, more than 122,000 people become Christian, and most of those people are in Africa, Asia, and South America. They're attending churches where even the pastors have no Bibles.
CRI launched Operation Bare Your Bookshelf , a project to make it easy for American Christians to send their Bibles and other Christian books overseas. They need Bibles, concordances and commentaries, Christian reference books, Systematic and practical theology books, and Bible Study materials.
However, CRI is asking people NOT to send the following: Christian magazines, Sunday School materials, denominational-specific materials, books in poor shape, or Christian fiction.
Lastly, once the resources are collected, there's still the matter of shipping them to the recipient seminary. It costs CRI approximately $7,500 to ship a Great Crate, and funding is critical.
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