‍July-August, 2021 | Volume 20: Issue 4 

Since the very birth of Bible for Children as a ministry to the children of the world, God has supported and sustained the outreach through the prayers, encouragement and faithful support of a core group that first consisted mainly of older believers. This core group has since grown to become more diverse – but the founding supporters, now almost twenty years older, have been unwavering in encouraging BFC towards the goal of providing the Bible stories in 450 languages. Currently, the number of languages offered (342) makes the stories available to an estimated 80% of the world’s almost two billion children. This is due to the vision and faithfulness of our dear supporters. 

Sadly, we are noting the passing of some who started out with us. We  cannot grieve their present joy in the presence of the Lord; indeed, we can rejoice with them in the affirmation that must be part of the “well done, good and faithful servant.” But, without naming individuals, we want to sincerely acknowledge each of them with loving respect and immeasurable gratitude to God for their steadfastness. In the words of the apostle Paul “we thank God upon every remembrance of them.” 

Bible Story Ebook Presentation

For the past couple of years we have had Bible story ebooks in 240 languages on Amazon, Apple, Google, Barnes & Noble and Kobo online book-stores.  Now we have added another 80 languages to bring our total on Google to 320 languages worldwide. The ebooks have been very popular in countries of Asia (see chart below). Now over half a million free ebooks have been delivered.  Since there are 6 Bible stories in each ebook, over 3 million Bible stories have been delivered to children in all these languages. An interesting note:  Most of the English ebooks have been delivered to countries such as India, Japan, Philip-pines, South Africa and Turkey. 

Please think of these numbers in terms of children being reached for Jesus. 

You may use this information as part of your daily prayer content.

Jesus said: “Let the little children come to Me and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:14. 

Mail from Around the World 

United States: I praise God for this wonderful ministry. I would like to have some bible stories in color, Spanish and Creol for a mission trip in Dominican Republic on July.  Thank you. Edith 

Romania: [Translated from Romanian] Looking for stories I came across your site with Bible stories. I have a YouTube channel where I post audio stories for kids. Could I read your stories? 

Taiwan: [Translated from Chinese] In response to the current outbreak [virus] in Taiwan, we would like to share Bible stories to children through online means, we would like to use your company's Bible story app, take pictures to the briefing, tell stories to children to listen to. Do not know whether this is possible.  Tseng 

Quebec, Canada: [Translated from French] I wanted to thank you for the material you are sharing with the whole world, what you are doing is truly a blessing for our children.  I am a member of a very small church in Quebec and with the grace of God I try to teach children in the way of God. I find this material magnificent.  Be abundantly blessed.  Tytyche 

Dominican Republic: [Translated from Spanish]  God bless you. I would like to know if you have bibles to illustrate (color) that you could donate, to send to a pastor friend of a church in Venezuela, who has more than 50 children. I currently live in the Dominican Republic and could pay for shipments to Venezuela, you know the situation that Venezuelans live and that pastor works with children and young people.  If you don't have bibles to donate, I'll down-load all your coloring bibles for children and send them to a printing press and then send them to Venezuela.  May God continue to bless you.  Gilbert 

Congo: I am a Christian preacher of the gospel, I bless the Lord Jesus Christ for the work you do, I would like to have more of your books to help children grow in faith.  Davy 

Facebook Posts from various users:

My name is Ciprian and I am from Ro-mania. I would like to ask your consent to use your materials for the spiritual purpose of reading them in a radio show of stories for young people in our town. If you agree, then I will be reassured that I am not doing anything wrong. Thank you! 

Hi! my name is Sharon, I come from Taiwan, may I share the stories which are on Taiwan website in public place, like Talking stories on FaceBook to share with children? Sorry! my English is not good enough, I just see the stories are so good, maybe I can share by talking on YouTube. 

Hello, I would like to use your material in French on my Instagram for people to practice the French language. It's possible? Thank you very much.  

‍Heart to Heart

Our God is full of surprises!  My wife and I decided to attend a petting farm so we could spend time with some of our grandchildren.  The owners of this farm are Christians, and they became aware of our Bible story booklets that I hand out everywhere. They asked if we could supply some for the hundreds of children that visit their petting farm.

I looked around and saw families from many kinds of cultural backgrounds.  And I suspected that many of these dear families had not heard of God’s love and salvation through Jesus. See-ing the great need, we were able to supply as many Bible story booklets as were needed, freely and glad-heartedly.

Please pray that many children (and parents) will come to know Jesus as their Savior through the Bible stories at the petting farm. Greg 

‍BIBLE FOR CHILDREN, INC. 

PO BOX 3, WINNIPEG, MB 
R3C 2G1, CANADA

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Editor: E.D. Hughes.

www.bibleforchildren.org

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