Last year was the first year that Mission Cry began shipping to Cape Town, and the organization was able to send four full shipping containers.

This had been a leap of faith for both the suppliers and recipients last year, as they sought to trust God with what they could handle.

Beginning in February, the 2026 shipments will leave every two months to continue in the work that the Word of God is already doing in South Africa.

Jason Woolford with Mission Cry says that the organization received amazing testimonies of the work happening in this area amidst gang issues and crime rises.

Distribution in Cape Town, South Africa (Photo courtesy of Mission Cry)

“Prisoners giving their lives to the Lord, people who get out of prison getting saved, people coming from the surrounding countries, that’s right, coming from the surrounding countries to come and get free Bibles and Christian books from this hub,” Woolford says.

Woolford says that when he sees the devil working overtime, he knows the devil is trying to stop something great. God willing, this distribution point will continue to be a place that fights against the evil working in the world.

“The only thing that does not return void is the Word of God,” Woolford says. “While clothes, water, food, all of those things are important (especially as Americans know), those things return void, but the Word of God doesn’t. It forever changes someone’s life.”

Please pray that the containers sent to Cape Town, South Africa, this year will touch the hearts of individuals who do not know the Lord. Pray that people will come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and that their lives will be transformed. Pray that Christians will be discipled and that they will draw near to God.

Distribution in Cape Town, South Africa (Photo courtesy of Mission Cry)

Mission Cry’s work in Mexico is focused in the largest state, Chihuahua, which is located on the northern border. Mission Cry has experienced favorable treatment in its shipment deliveries, despite the risk of fraud and demands for extra payment of duties. 

Mexico is reported to be about 77.7% Roman Catholic and 11.2% Evangelical Christian. In Chihuahua, the population is about 72% Roman Catholic and 6% Protestant.

Bible distribution in Mexico builds relationships with Jesus Christ. Photo provided by Mission Cry.

Jason Woolford with Mission Cry says, “People are encouraged in Mexico, in some non-Protestant churches, not to read their Bible and to only hear from the priest, and so we’re making huge strides in people understanding that there’s a relationship with the Lord.”

Recently, security guards in the city of Chihuahua tried to prevent Bible distribution.

Jason Woolford with Mission Cry says, “We had to get strategic. We had to pray.”

“Our Mission Cry missionary, Abe, and his family started going to bus stops and were having conversations with people getting on and getting off the buses.”

One woman who was a Jehovah’s Witness originally was not interested in talking to the missionaries. But through their conversations about the one true God, she gave her life to the Lord and even took a large number of Bibles back to her old church to minister to them.

Mission Cry missionaries in Chihuahua are also reaching people at apple orchards and onion fields, which are common to the area.

One onion field owner initially would not allow the missionaries to distribute the Bible on the property. When he became sick, his brother took over management and allowed Bible distribution there.

“It’s just so powerful what the Word of God is doing,” Woolford says.

Mission Cry is getting ready to place its next order of Spanish Mission Cry Bibles.

Mission Cry works to supply people around the world with free Bibles. 

To join in this ministry, please pray for the evangelism happening in Chihuahua and that more people will come to experience a personal relationship with God. Click here to donate to future shipments.

Header Photo Provided by Mission Cry 

Besides the ministry to former inmates, Mission CRY recently heard about the miraculous story of how their team was protected during a distribution.

Jason Woolford with Mission Cry says a distribution team in the Philippine Sea was headed to the Caubian islands, in their weighed-down, makeshift bamboo boat when a storm hit.

“They had too many men, too many booklets, and the propeller had hit a rock and broken off,” Woolford says. “And of course, just then a storm sets in, and as the storm was coming over them, they said it was chaos everywhere, but the Lord was protecting them.”

The storm passed over the island and around them, keeping the boat from sinking. The people and supplies stayed dry, knowing that God was protecting them.

Mission Cry sent Bible materials to the Philippines.

Missing their propeller, those in the boat began to pray.  After the storm, they discovered the propeller undamaged and in eight feet of water. They put it back on the boat and completed the mission of sharing God’s Word.

“Think of these men on this makeshift boat, trusting God, believing and then being able to complete their mission,” Woolford says. “I wonder how many people would have turned back around if they had the chance. But instead, they stood their ground, and so to God be the glory. It just shows that you can’t stop what God wants done.”

Mission CRY has sent over $500 million in free Bibles and Christian books to 180 nations around the world.

Woolford says Mission CRY is humbled to do this good work. The Word of God is more valuable than physical things.

“Food, water, clothes, it all returns void at the end of the day, but the Word of God doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not return void,” Woolford says.

“We’ve seen this in whether we’re ministering in prisons, setting up Bible colleges, seminaries, orphanages, you name it,” Woolford says. “There are no issues when people take in clothes or take in water; there seems to be no spiritual warfare in those, but as soon as you bring the Word of God, that’s when the battle begins.”

Please pray for the Mission CRY team and for the difficulties they experience taking Scripture into difficult places. Pray that people will continue in the good work of distributing materials despite spiritual warfare.

Pray that these materials will transform lives, shaping fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, and citizens, and bringing eternal change.

Header Photo provided by Mission CRY

The northern region of the country is set to receive a distribution of Bibles and Christian resources soon from Mission Cry, although distributing to this area means navigating state anti-conversion laws. 

“It is against the law in the country of India, via their president, to send Bibles,” says Mission Cry President, Reverend Jason Woolford. “That has not stopped us.” 

“If you convert from being a Christian and ask Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior, you could be at (risk) of death, imprisonment, for sure. And we’ve seen this already in India and in Pakistan, where churches are being destroyed, set on fire,” says Woolford.

“There’s a very real spiritual battle taking place, and our brothers and sisters are crying out for the Word of God.” 

In Africa, where Boko Haram came in, a missionary there told Woolford, “Reverend, our people, your brothers and sisters, are being killed or murdered, beaten for a God that they can’t even read about.” 

The same is happening in Northern India and around the globe as brothers and sisters seek the ability to read about the one true God.

The average American has six Bibles on their shelves. In places of poverty, people cannot afford the very book they defend. When they receive a Bible from someone with plenty, they cherish the book and love it, thankful for the opportunity. 

Mission Cry needs the materials to send and the resources to send them.

“When we send a container, it (costs) $11,000, but that has half a million dollars worth of free Bibles and Christian books in it. (With) this particular container to India, we have to pay more, and we have to do things to basically give money to some people to be able to get this cleared secretly with no issues,” says Woolford.

Please pray that when this container arrives, it’s cleared with no issues and that God will provide the funds for the mission. Pray that God will prompt and break the hearts of people at the right times to come alongside the ministry. Pray also for the ministry and leadership for protection as they go into areas of spiritual upheaval. Pray for the families and individuals whose homes and lives have been destroyed or lost by the flood. Pray that God will work through this event to reach people. 

Mission Cry is having a bible drive and is asking people to go through their homes to look for Bibles, go to thrift stores, garage sales, and local bookstores, and tell them about Mission Cry. 

For locals to the Fowlerville, Michigan area, donations can be delivered in person; otherwise, donations can be shipped. 

Engage your congregation in this drive and let the world hear your mission cry. Go to missioncry.com or contact the organization at 517-223-3193.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Jason Woolford with Mission Cry says most American Christians have a surplus of Christian resources. If you’re looking to downsize during spring cleaning, here’s an opportunity for you: the team at Mission Cry accepts donations of Bibles and Christian reading materials in good condition. 

“They get palletized, boxed, sorted; and then we put them on sea containers and send them out to our distribution points around the world,” he says. 

South Africa receives four such containers each year, containing Bibles, Christian books, and seminary materials. On the most recent shipment to Cape Town, Mission Cry’s Jason Woolford shares the story of a gang member whose mother came across a Bible with specific commentary intended for prisoners. 

“She told this young man that it came from American Christians, and it came just for him.”

He was skeptical of the Bible, asking his mother how much it cost. She told him it was given as a gift.

“He started to cry because he said it was the first time that a stranger had done anything for him, and now he’s reading this Bible,” Woolford says.

This account stands among other testimonies of God’s Word not returning void. Even those on the periphery of this effort, like a Muslim man who delivers the shipments, have been affected by the work. After declining an offer of a Bible on the first container, this man accepted one from the second shipment and said he would read it. 

Woolford says it’s especially encouraging to see God’s Word going out in dangerous places. 

“The Word of God is going to change things there,” he says. 

From the distribution post in South Africa, Mission Cry has been able to distribute Bibles into Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and other nearby nations. 

Please pray for safety of the team and for changed hearts of those who receive Bibles. Woolford is asking people to pray or give according to the Holy Spirit’s leading. 

“As they do, in both of those areas, I pray a blessing back on them: 30, 60, and 100-fold in the spiritual, physical, and financial areas of their life,” he says. 

Find out more at Mission Cry’s website. 

Photos in this article courtesy of Mission Cry

Earlier this year, the ministry sent another shipping container to landlocked Malawi in southern Africa. (More on that update here.) The Bibles and Christian books in that container are now getting into peoples’ hands! 

Jason Woolford, the president of Mission Cry, says of their local partner in Malawi: “They do three things, and do it very well: minister to orphanages, [engage in] prison ministry, and then they have a mobile library.”

This bookmobile is a truck loaded with potential to reach anyone with the gospel.

“We stop, we put out signs, start distributing and then move on to the next town,” Woolford says. “So we’re able to get into some of these areas where someone may not be in prison or in the orphanage, [they] might not be in church, but they’re willing to take a book and read about our Lord and Savior.” 

You can play a part in this story! Is there a Christian book on your shelf you think someone in another country could benefit from? Consider donating it to Mission Cry! Visit Mission Cry’s website to learn how to send books.

Woolford says these books could be “any Bibles, Christian-authored books, seminary materials — and what I mean by seminary materials would be Bible commentaries, Bible dictionaries, study Bibles, etc — and then Christian education [materials].”

(Photo of Malawi courtesy of Mission Cry)

If you don’t have books but want to sponsor this Malawi shipment, Mission Cry invites you to join them. Because of the generosity of partners to date, they have been able to ship more than 480 million dollars’ worth of Bibles and Christian resources to 278 countries.

“[Malawi] is a regular place that we send to when we get the containers funded,” says Woolford. It usually costs $11,000 to send a shipping container with half a million dollar’s worth of Christian materials.

“Malawi is double that cost because it’s landlocked and it’s very difficult to get to those areas. We sent this on faith,” he explains. “If those that are listening [or reading] want to partner with us in supporting this container, we would appreciate that.”

Header photo of Malawi courtesy of Mission Cry.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is campaigning for a third consecutive, five-year term. Voters will also elect lower parliament house members.

The outcome of this election will impact India’s politics, culture, and Christian ministries. Unfortunately, Christian persecution in India has risen over the last several years under the current political system.

No matter the election’s outcome, Rev. Jason Woolford, President of Mission Cry, says Indian Christians will remain faithful to the Gospel.

“We’re thankful for partnerships that we have there – partnerships where they’re willing to risk their livelihood and even possibly imprisonment by understanding the importance of the Word of God because it’s the only thing that’s going to deliver.”

Mission Cry shipment of Bibles and Christian books to India. (Photo courtesy of Mission Cry)

In fact, you can pray for a Mission Cry shipment currently en route to resource a seminary in eastern India.

Woolford says, “This new seminary will be filled with Bibles and Christian books – seminary materials – instantly after the shipment that will be arriving over the next couple of months.”

Pray for a growing Gospel impact in India. You can help by supporting the Mission Cry container headed there now!

“For us to send a container filled with half a million dollars worth of free Bibles and Christian books, it cost us $11,000,” says Woolford. “That’s all it costs to send half a million dollars worth of free Bibles and Christian books where they’re freely distributed and given to our Mission Cry partners on the other end.”

Click here to donate to Mission Cry.

Also, ask the Lord to grant Indians wisdom as they head to the polls over the next several weeks.

Header photo of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

“People’s lives will be hanging in the balance because of their belief and wanting to get the Word to northern China,” Woolford says.

Here’s where the action movie plot comes into play.

Woolford says, “We have 15 people coming from the north who have good social scores to be able to travel, [who are] willing to risk their life to smuggle these Bibles back to northern China, to give the Word of God to people who are in desperate need of it.”

Previous shipment from Mission Cry to China. (Photo courtesy of Mission Cry)

Communist rules are strictly enforced in northern China, so Bibles are hard to come by. “Communist China is worried about what the Word of God can do, will do, and is doing.”

Christians pay a high price for following Jesus. Woolford says, “[In] the north, you have real religious persecution, imprisonment, people being starved, [or] losing their life.”

Mission Cry sends used Bibles and Christian books around the world to believers who cannot afford them. For situations like this one, Mission Cry develops specialized Christian resources such as Bibles and Christian books in simplified Chinese.

First and most importantly, pray for this mission to be successful, and “for those that are traveling, that they would be invisible to the police [or] those that might be checking.”

Consider also helping Mission Cry cover the $25,000 needed for shipping and travel costs. Click here to give to Mission Cry.

Header photo courtesy of Zhang Kaiyv/Unsplash.

Mission Cry ships containers filled with good-quality, used Bibles and Christian books to countries like Ghana where believers desperately need copies of Scripture in their homes.

Rev. Jason Woolford, President of Mission Cry, says, “Ghana is very Christianized…. But a majority of those people are attending a church where the pastor doesn’t even own a Bible.”

(Photo courtesy of Mission Cry)

Ghanaians are hungry for copies of the Word. Even though the Christian literature distributed by Mission Cry is in English, the official language of Ghana is English so most of the population can speak and read it.

The Bibles and Christian books are also reaching those in Ghana who don’t know Jesus.

Although Ghanaians are around 70% Christian, another 20% are Muslim and represent a key mission field.

Woolford says, “It seems like these last two shipments have seemed to make their way and give us favor in some of those northern parts of Ghana. In Akweteyman where there’s a large population of Muslims, we’ve had favor going in and distributing the Word of God in these areas and seeing people open to the Gospel, the one true and only Bible, the Holy Bible. So we’re excited about that.”

Mission Cry works with a local missionary in Ghana to distribute Scripture and Christian literature. “We’ve been distributing now to the tune of over $10 million in donated Bibles and Christian books just through him in that area [of Akweteyman] over the last 14 years.”

You can donate Christian books and Bibles to Mission Cry and have an eternal impact in Ghana!

“We’re taking ground back and reaching Muslims,” says Woolford. “So first, pray for those people that give their life and turn from Islam and come to Christianity.”

Pray also for protection over Mission Cry and their ministry partners as they reach into challenging or even hostile areas with the Gospel. Thank the Lord for Ghanaian believers’ desire for the Word!

Header photo courtesy of Mission Cry.