The Gideon’s are a wonderful organization.
The Gideons International is a world-wide association of Christian business and professional men. T join the Gideons one must be a professed follower of Christ, the active member of a local evangelical church, confirmed by his pastor, and recommended by another Gideon. Ordained ministers are not admitted to the organization, nor does the local camp have any affiliation with any local church or denomination.
The members themselves pay all the costs of the organization out of their own pockets, including any involvement in travel for distributions in other lands. Gideons International owes no allegiance to any denomination, corporation, or government agency.
The contributions from the supporting churches and their members go entirely toward printing and distributing Bibles and testaments to schools that permit it, to hospitals, to hotels and motels serving the public, and for sidewalk distributions at colleges and universities.
Not one contributed cent goes into any private person's account anywhere.