Venezuela (MNN) — Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’? A similar process applies to Scripture delivery.
It takes a whole team to get Scripture booklets from the factory to the port and to people in need.
First, World Missionary Press prints millions of booklets and packs them into shipping containers on the U.S. side. Then, WMP hands the baton to its national coordinator.
“We provide all the paperwork; we pay the cost to get it to the port. Their job is to get it cleared and then put it into a centralized storage facility,” WMP’s Helen Williams says.
Once the materials arrive at the storage facility, WMP circles back to the people who requested Scripture booklets.
“We let everybody who contacts us know where they can get the material,” Williams says. “Then, those people will contact our coordinator.”
Venezuelan believers with WMP materials.
(Photo courtesy of World Missionary Press)
Case study: Venezuela
Christians in Venezuela recently put this process to the test after waiting three years. God provided Maria when the previous national coordinator retired.
“She is just top-notch in how she does these things and stays with them,” Williams says. “She was in the country getting a group of reliable pastors who would use the literature.”
Maria didn’t waste any time. “She had 10 pastors, and the order came in 10 separate pallets. She got it cleared and delivered to each of the individual pastors,” Williams says.
“Pastors got about 96,000 booklets in each pallet, and then they distributed them through their network, which would be their church or community,” she adds.
“The distribution began about as soon as the boxes arrived.”
Pray for wisdom as Maria coordinates WMP deliveries in Argentina and Uruguay.
Header and story images courtesy of World Missionary Press.
