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Greetings from sweltering Folsom, California! 111 today and 114 yesterday. We hope you’ll join with us in prayer for our inmates throughout the west as they deal with this heat in some pretty tough conditions. A/C in many of these facilities is woefully inadequate on a good day. In this heat – wow! Is was in Mule Creek just yesterday and all my guys showed up for our CAMP class. I am truly blessed with this work.
And speaking of CAMP, things are starting to gear up again. We just completed week 15 of 30 in Mule Creek. Next week we’ll conduct week 24 in Folsom. But the big news is that they finally got started last month in Houston Texas! They’re conducting the classes with 10 men as they learn the program. So, 20 guys are on week 5 in 2 separate prisons in that area. Today we sent 20 more sets of books to the coordinator there to start 2 more classes very soon. We’re just praying now that God will change the trajectory of this Covid mess so we can get fully back to work!
And speaking of that Coordinator in Texas, we also sent him a complete package (student and facilitator guides) of our latest work “Written in Red”. It’s a pretty thorough study of the 4 Gospels – all done and ready for trials. And by the way, any of you out there that might be willing to conduct this course as a Bible study in your church, come back to us. Bibles 4 Change will fully sponsor all of the materials you’ll need to get it going. Just bear in mind that it’s a pretty serious commitment. It’s designed to take a full year if conducted once a week in 2-hour sessions. Please take a look at our website for more info on this curriculum. Don’t hesitate to email or call me if you have questions.
We have begun to do our preliminary research on our next project. It will be a course on Christian leadership. We haven’t made the final decision on the workbook for the class but it’s looking like a book by John Maxwell – “21 Qualities of Leaders in the Bible’” is our main contender.
This season’s wildfire evacuations here in California have been a little lighter than previous years. I believe it’s mainly because Cal-fire has been doing a superb job of getting onto and knocking these fires down more forcefully than ever before. Our hats are off to these people in this work, including a lot of our inmates who do some of the scariest work on the front lines. I’ve met a few of them and I can tell you that most of them seem to be pretty self-less people to go into harm’s way as they do.
I recently made a 2 case drop at a Baptist Church in Auburn for the Mosquito fire and my sister Linda is planning a trip to the fires burning at the California/Oregon border. I do have to say that this Mosquito fire evacuation has been one of the most heartbreaking evacuation sites I’ve been to yet. This good-sized church was overflowing with evacuees. People were sleeping on the ground and on small cots, right out in the parking lot – and in this heat?? Please, Lord, watch over them!
But we certainly aren’t complaining about a lack of business in this part of our ministry. These fires can really be devastating, as you undoubtedly understand. Please keep all of these displaced folks in your prayers.
Once again, we can’t possibly thank all of you enough who continue to support our ministry, both in prayer and financially. God has blessed us beyond measure in this work.
Just a note of testimony – I was asked a few days ago, as I’ve been asked before, ‘why do you do this work’? And people are sometimes taken aback when I tell them that all of us involved in Bibles 4 Change are 10 times more blessed by this work than those that we minister to! And this isn’t just some cliché – some catchy talking point - It really is true! God tells us in His word that we will always be more blessed than we can imagine if we just do what He tells us to do. We are living testimony to the truth of that!
God bless you all and please take a look at our website for more information on what’s going on with our ministry. And please, tell everyone you think may be interested in what we’re doing. We need all the support we can get and that includes conducting one of our courses in their church!
Bob Morris
916-221-2110