USA (MNN) — Mission Cry has sent nearly $500 million dollars’ worth of free used Bibles and Christian books to 180 nations around the world.
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As Mission Cry sent a much higher volume of donated materials this year than in the past, the organization invites people to join in the mission, searching thrift stores, rummage sales, churches, and their own shelves for materials to donate.
Mission Cry President Jason Woolford says, “There are so many organizations and churches that give Bibles to the point that the average home, not the saved home, not the Christian home, the average home in America has 6 Bibles sitting on its shelf.”
Mission Cry began its Bible-sending ministry 70 years ago when a junk dealer found a Bible sitting in a garbage can. Not wanting to throw it away, he began collecting a box full of Bibles, which he sent to India, and since then, Mission Cry has grown into what it is today, reaching many around the world.
In the U.S., Bibles and Christian materials abound. However, in other places around the world, people desperately want these materials.
“With the state of everything going on in the world, there’s a great need that we’re seeing, more than ever before, where people are requesting and just desiring the Word of God and not desiring a brand new Bible with a sticker on it,” Woolford says.
Woolford says that donating allows people to be missionaries, sending the Word of God around the world without even leaving their homes.
To donate to Mission Cry’s semi-annual Bible drive, take a box and pack it with materials to send to Mission Cry as Media Mail. People can also reach out to state coordinators, who can collect the materials and take them to Mission Cry.
“This is a spiritual battle that we’re in. We’re sending the Word, the only thing that doesn’t return void,” Woolford says. “God says that faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of God alone.”
Please pray for the state coordinators who collect the Bibles, and that a state coordinator will be found for the state of New York.
Pray for the funds to send containers around the world.
Please pray for those who are sharing the Word of God in difficult countries around the world. Pray that as they get the materials to people who do not yet know the Lord, individuals will be blessed by the books and that people will put their faith in Christ.
