The Gideons International has an intentional, focused jail ministry throughout the world, including the USA. Gideons are businessmen who are members of evangelical churches. The mission of the Gideons is to win the lost for Jesus Christ through personal witnessing and the one-on-one distribution of God’s Word. The one place where the Gideons distribute Bibles is through hotels and motels, in individual rooms.
A Bible in a motel has about a six year lifespan before it is taken out and recycled into a prison ministry. (Hard covers are removed and replaced with soft covers for the prison ministry. Soft cover Bibles are more difficult to be used as weapons.) The motel Bible will likely be touched and viewed by 2300 people over those six years.
Thank you.
Interesting.