Church Ships Bibles to Congo

June 24, 2024130 views0

Church Ships Bibles to Congo

2024-06-24T09:21:13+01:00

By Church News

First Baptist Church of Carthage‘s year-end surplus enabled Baptist World Alliance partners to deliver thousands of Bibles to people in a rural area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.“We were blessed with surplus funds not tithes but other gifts” at the end of 2023, said pastor Monty Pierce of First Baptist Church Carthage. “We prayed about how God might have us use them.”In a remote rural area of the Central African nation where Christians lacked access to Bibles, church leaders were travelling up to 45 miles a week by foot or by motorbike to copy a passage of Scripture to use in worship the next Sunday.“The area they travelled through was held by rebels who had previously attacked churches and burned Bibles,” Brown explained in a text to Pierce.Bibles in the language of the people in that region were available, but transporting and distributing them was cost-prohibitive.Central Baptist Church in Carthage gave $6,000 to BWA and Congolese Baptists to secure the necessary transportation.Also Read: Canon’s Trek Raises £26k For Zambia Orphans