Posted on 09/02/2005 9:21:56 AM PDT by Mark Felton
The Gideons International are sending 40,000 Personal Witnessing Testaments (New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs) to be distributed at the Astrodome and other relief centers in Houston.
My camp in Clear Lake is the focal point for organizing Gideon volunteers to help with the distribution. We are doing this in cooperation with the Salvation Army.
If you are a Gideon, or a minister, and would like to help the Salvation Army and Gideons minister to the people and distribute the New Testaments please freep mail me your name and phone number and either myself, the Salvation Army or a Gideon organizer will contact you.
At this time we are working with our own personal cell phones until we get a headquarters established. You may also contact the Gideons International HQ in Nashville, TN and they can forward your information. Telephone: (615)564-5000 or Email us at tgi@gideons.org
The scriptures are on a truck due to arrive Sunday by 10 a.m. and we are planning shifts to provide patoral care 24/7.
God is at work, and we are called by Him to Serve His Will. There was a purpose for Katrina, let us not fail to fulfill our duties.
How you can snark even on this is amazing....
No doubt that some will be misused, but spirtual comfort may be all that can be offered and in times of crisis, faith and hope may be all you have.
"Praise God from whom all blessing flow
Praise Him all creatures here below..."
For some of those folks it will be their first Book. God be with them.
I follow Christian tenants very seriously. You have no idea who I am. The Bible at this point is merely a sop to people who have more immediate needs.
If you're starving and thirsty...what would you prefer...a book...or food and water?
Try not to obfuscate the issue..but answer this question...if you had a thousand dollars to contribute...would you invest the saving of people's lives in physical sustenance..or the spiritual alternative
This is tremendous, God Bless you for the work you have always done. It is at times like these that folks will start to realize that the Gideons do more than just "stock" hotel and hospital rooms. Here is a link to another thread about a group in the New Orleans area that is asking for Bible donations to distribute to people there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1475189/posts
Hopefully they are made of bologna.
There was a link on a previous thread from someone in touch with a shelter in Baton Rouge--after food and water, what people most request is the Bible. No one is suggesting that food and water not be sent--but this is also a necessity, and normal relief workers have other things to do. God gives each of us work to do, and it's not always the same.
I guess that's why he sent a CAT 5.
That's ok, as long as it isn't the Koran, that's ok. (/sarcasm)
BTW, 32 years is a long time to be in a bad mood. I pity you.
Amen!
Quick true Gideons story.
The Gideons were traveling to a small private school somewhere in Africa to distribute bible to the children where the local whites spoke English, so they packed only English language NT's. Unknown to them, there was the son of a French diplomat who spoke very little English and read none, but he got a bible, too. A few days later, the schoolmaster asked them how they knew to pack a French language NT's. They had not of course and when the headmaster was questioned, it seems that somehow ONE French translation NT had accidentally packed in with the English ones and the worker handing them out had somehow randomly grabbed THAT NT and given it to the French boy.
Just coincidence? I think not.
Exactly!
Let's talk practicalities here.
But if it makes some people out there feel good to have distributed Bibles instead of water or food, then so be it.
BTW...that's what's called a cynical, humorous tag....get your head out of the Book...and smell the real world.
I am going to tell you the truth and I realize you probably won't like it. You are blind, my friend, and you don't even know it.
Only by those who have rejected God.Only by those who have chosen death over life.Only by those who choose NOT to believe.
Do you realize that Bibles are among the most requested items. Physical needs are not the only thing. Both types are being taken care of.
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