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Gideons sending 40,000 New Testaments to Astrodome
self ^ | 9/2/04 | Mark Felton

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.


TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: astrodome; bibles; katrina; refugees
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator

To: Focault's Pendulum

How you can snark even on this is amazing....


22 posted on 09/02/2005 9:38:47 AM PDT by justche (No one can go back and make a brand new start, any one can start now and make a brand new ending)
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To: martin_fierro

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.


24 posted on 09/02/2005 9:42:21 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Mark Felton

"Praise God from whom all blessing flow
Praise Him all creatures here below..."


25 posted on 09/02/2005 9:43:17 AM PDT by tmp02 (Don't come to the US. We too are dipping our bullets in pig's blood)
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To: Mark Felton

For some of those folks it will be their first Book. God be with them.


26 posted on 09/02/2005 9:43:43 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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To: Pete
You obviously have no idea how important a Bible would be to a Christian. I know that is something you cannot understand.

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

27 posted on 09/02/2005 9:44:27 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I'm not a curmudgeon!!!! I've just been in a bad mood since '73)
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To: Mark Felton

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


28 posted on 09/02/2005 9:44:51 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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Hopefully they are made of bologna.


29 posted on 09/02/2005 9:46:04 AM PDT by rattrap
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To: MplsSteve

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.


30 posted on 09/02/2005 9:46:17 AM PDT by born in the Bronx
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To: TonyRo76
Mock all you want, but God knows exactly what His people need.

I guess that's why he sent a CAT 5.

31 posted on 09/02/2005 9:46:30 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I'm not a curmudgeon!!!! I've just been in a bad mood since '73)
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To: martin_fierro
Something tells me the pages will be used for toilet paper.

That's ok, as long as it isn't the Koran, that's ok. (/sarcasm)

32 posted on 09/02/2005 9:46:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TonyRo76
Mock all you want, but God knows exactly what His people need.

BTW, 32 years is a long time to be in a bad mood. I pity you.

Amen!

33 posted on 09/02/2005 9:47:06 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: SerpentDove

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.


34 posted on 09/02/2005 9:49:08 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Focault's Pendulum

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.


35 posted on 09/02/2005 9:51:28 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: wagglebee
BTW, 32 years is a long time to be in a bad mood. I pity you.

BTW...that's what's called a cynical, humorous tag....get your head out of the Book...and smell the real world.

36 posted on 09/02/2005 9:52:04 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I'm not a curmudgeon!!!! I've just been in a bad mood since '73)
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To: Focault's Pendulum
You can't eat the Bible, send food. Small consolation that you are at peace with God while you're dying of starvation.

The are in the astrodome. I assure you they are eating their fill. We in Houston will take care of that. They have 2 hot meals, one mre, showers, clean restrooms, police security, and access to telcom.
37 posted on 09/02/2005 9:52:19 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: Focault's Pendulum

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.


38 posted on 09/02/2005 9:53:38 AM PDT by Pete
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To: martin_fierro

Only by those who have rejected God.Only by those who have chosen death over life.Only by those who choose NOT to believe.


39 posted on 09/02/2005 9:53:56 AM PDT by StonyBurk
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To: Focault's Pendulum

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.


40 posted on 09/02/2005 9:54:16 AM PDT by Blogger
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