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.
See post 37.
"The Gideons International are sending 40,000 Personal Witnessing Testaments (New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs) "
My bet is the ACLU will file suit preventing this from happening.
On the other hand, imagine the horror of being stuck in a crowded shelter for weeks with nothing to read? I'd go balmy and start eating the neighbors.
I wonder who is going to feel better. The people who are dying...or the people having a successful distribution project.
2 excellent Christian relief organizations:
Southern Baptist's NAMB: http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
Why must the sending of food and scriptures be mutually exclusive?
"You can't eat the Bible, send food. Small consolation that you are at peace with God while you're dying of starvation."
With all due respect, that is a stupid comment.
The people at the Astrodome are in HOUSTON. They are being well-fed. Houston doesn't need anybody to send food.
Nice gesture by the Gideons. I heard that people, while still in NO, were asking for Bibles.
Despite the degeneracy and bad behavior we'll all heard of, I know that there are good and decent people who have been brought to Houston and who will appreciate a copy of the scriptures.
Happy to see you are so ignorant.Have you not read there is
good seed and bad?Children of darkness and children of light,disobediant and obediant children? suffering is visited upon the good as well as upon the wicked.But I worry about those who think man--or godless government is the answer to a problem such as this.
God Bless the effort! Let us not neglect the mind and the emotions. Our body is but a shell if our heart and mind are lost in the mire.
The Bibles are a nice idea but it looks as if the Astrodome is only going to hold about 8,000 and not 25,000 so the Gideons will be able to hand out five Bibles for every evacuee, where the evacuee wants it or not. That seems like a waste of resources to me.
Please provide a link for a story about the people in Houston being without food and water. New Orleans certainly needs food and water, I am unaware of similar problems in Texas.
Another very effective Christian relief organization (with which I'm connected and can vouch for absolute honesty and accountability):
http://www.raphainternational.org/
They concentrate on medical relief but are also doing food, etc. to NO, as well as bio suits and decontamination supplies. Rapha did extensive work after the tsunami and had officials Thailand within hours after the big waves hit.
And an affiliate is opening a shelter in Arlington today. I spent part of yesterday at the food pantry, and they're loading more trucks as I type.
Wonderful news. I heard yesterday on a local station that people at the Astrodome were ASKING for Bibles.
God Bless the Gideons!
The word of God as helped more time than I can remember, 40,000 books maybe a few to many.
Last night when I went to bed, I was watching FOXNEWS and didn’t they say the Houston FD stopped the flow of people at around 8,000 for safety concerns?
Does everyone in the Astrodome need 5 PWT's?
Just asking.
MTE, gotta have something to read. Good for them.
Go Gideons!
I think a more productive way to get these out is to have them at the relief centers. I would hate to see the bonfire 40K Bibles would make in the middle of an anarchy.
Food is an immediate need to physical survival. Scripture can wait awhile, while the body recuperates.
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