Nigeria (MNN) — When’s the last time God’s Word changed your life? Charles, a man from southern Nigeria, was never the same after reading a World Missionary Press Scripture booklet.
“He had that one booklet, and that is what he held onto, our booklet Help From Above,” WMP’s Helen Williams says. “It’s always just God speaking to one heart through the booklets.”
Williams first became acquainted with Charles through email earlier this summer. “He said, ‘I grew up in a village in Kogi State, Nigeria, in the early 1970s,’” she recalls.
“‘I’m presently in the United States, and there are two things on my mind: number one, I want to visit your office before I leave this world. And number two, I will be glad if you can send me a copy of your booklet, Help From Above.’”
In recent weeks, Charles met Williams and dozens of her coworkers during a tour of the Indiana-based WMP plant. “He sat here in my office and said over and over, ‘I’m here to thank you,’” Williams says.
“‘I have wanted all these years to come and thank you. Everybody in our village got your booklet, and it changed my life.’”
Cover art of Help From Above in Hausa, one of Nigeria’s top spoken languages.
(Photo courtesy of World Missionary Press)
Even though southern Nigeria is overwhelmingly Christian, biblical resources are few and far between, making WMP Scripture booklets extremely valuable.
“One (Scripture) booklet can reach a whole village,” Williams says. “One person will get a booklet, and they’ll go back to their village, pass it around, or they’ll get two or three and share them. Everybody gets to read them.”
World Missionary Press produces 10 million Scripture booklets each month, sending material to partners in over 200 countries. Learn more about WMP’s mission here.
“We provide it free of charge, and so not only can the pastors and missionaries do more, but the individual who gets it,” Williams says. “To have the booklet in their hand to read over and over and for the Spirit, then, to do the work – that’s why there’s such a demand.”
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Header and story images courtesy of World Missionary Press.
