Missionaries and Passports

 In Nehemiah 2:7-9 one of the earliest known references to what served as a passport is found. In about 450 BC,  Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia , asked leave to travel to Judea and the king granted leave and gave him a letter "to the governors beyond the river" requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands.

We just renewed our U.S. Passports. It wasn't difficult. We just completed Form DS-82, attached our check, enclosed our soon to expire passports and mailed them to the U.S. passport office. Yesterday the new ones came in the mail. We are good for another ten years.

As I looked over our new U.S. Passports, it made me ask myself if I carry a Christian passport. Is it my Bible? Is it my walk? Is it my smile? Or is it my attitude? Is it my skin color? Am I without sin? Do I never hurt anyone else? Christian...? Christian....? Follower of Christ. Imitator of Jesus. Wow.... Grace. Thank you Father for Grace.

PBT Annual Retreat

Gerald Denny and William Fierbaugh enjoying a moment at the Pioneer Bible Translators' Annual Retreat. PBT - make your life special. Come help us share God's Word with the Bible-less.

Super Bowl Ad

     Tim Tebow, is the former Florida quarterback, who's known for writing Bible verses under his eyes.   There's no telling how many people who never, ever would have touched a Bible did so because they were curious what the athlete was trying to say.Tebow has been receiving criticism for starring in a planned Super Bowl Commercial. There have been literally hundreds of pro-abortion media "news" items about the so called Super Bowl controversy.

     Lost in the limelight is a wonderful fact. The fact is --- today's media reaches where the people are....  And it reaches them by the tens, hundreds, thousands and sometimes millions. The Jesus Film has been projected to illiterate people groups on the sides of huts from a projector furnished electricity by a gasoline powered  generator.  Bible Translation is not only about translation -- it is also about "getting the Word out to the entire world." This week, even as you read this, a gasoline powered generator runs tape recorders deep in Africa. The locals, many who cannot read, will soon be able to listen to the Bible in their own heart language. God has provided many methods to share the Word. Thank you, Father, for allowing us to learn....how to share..! 

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14 NIV