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We finally finished our last audit of the Gospel study course we’ve been working on. It’s been almost 2 years in the making, but finally – we’re in the printing stage now! We are really proud of this work and are looking forward to beta-testing it. It looks as though we will run it first at Mule Creek State Prison here in California, but we also have a couple of people that are considering rolling it out in their home Churches. It lends itself easily to either environment so, we’ll see. To remind everyone, it’s an intense study of the Gospels called “Written in Red”. If it’s run as we suggest, i.e; one session a week for 2 hours, it will take about a year to work through, roughly 13 weeks per book.
This course will be fully sponsored by and funded by our ministry – ‘Bibles 4 Change’. We will supply all of the books and materials needed. We may even know of someone that can supply Study Bibles if needed. If any of you that follow us might be interested in conducting it in your church small group Bible study, contact us for further details. Also, you can learn a little more about it on our website, shown below.
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We currently have 2 Christian Anger Management Project courses under way at Folsom and Mule Creek. Folsom is at week 21 of 30 and Mule Creek is at week 11 of 30. Of course, these prisons go up and down for programming when Covid numbers grow, but we’re just taking things as they come. We also seem to be hitting a snag in distributing this course in Texas as we’ve been reporting. It’s a little unclear why things are held up, but it’s likely that Covid restrictions are playing a roll. We happen to know who’s really in charge, so we’ll wait as necessary on His timing.
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We are already in discussion about the subject of our next course development project. We’re looking at a Christian Leadership course, probably centered on a book by Charles Swindoll “Hand Me Another Brick’. It’s a pretty intense study of the Profit Nehemiah and his leadership in reconstructing the battered wall around Jerusalem in just 52 days! It’s a remarkable story about a man’s capabilities to do the impossible when he fully trusts in God to lead the work. More to come on this new effort in the near future.
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We are also gearing up for what will undoubtedly be a serious Forest Fire season. As you all know, our draught conditions here in California are looking very bad. This year we’re going to work even harder to be more anticipative of where evacuation centers will be set up. We’ve learned that if we wait too long, conditions can be so bad in those areas that we’ll be restricted entrance to them. We’re in our 3rd season of this work, so we’re striving to be more responsive, with God directing us of course. It’s nearly impossible for us to distribute single Bibles to these centers, so if you’re interested in helping us with this work, please just send us a check and mark in its notes “Fire Bibles” and we’ll be sure to use all of the funds in that work, buying them by the case, when necessary.
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Overall, God continues to bless us with all of these projects in our Ministry. But we couldn’t do them without the support that all of you give us, both in thoughtful prayer and with your pocketbooks. Thank you all for trusting us with your hard-earned charity dollars.
Once again, if you believe God is telling you to get involved in Prison Ministry, or in conducting one of our courses in your church, come back to us through email or call me. We understand that it is quite a commitment to sign up for this work, so we know you’ll thoroughly pray it through first. Once you have and you are ready start, you can count on Bibles 4 Change for 3 things –
We’re here to support you in any way we can, which includes some guidance and counselling on getting involved in prison work.
We’ll supply all the books and materials you’ll need to make this work in either a prison or a church environment.
You’ll have our never-ending prayers for your success.
Thank you again and God bless you for your interest and support of Bibles 4 Change.
Bob