Back to the Old Country

Friday evening, the men of the Mt. Zion Community Church emptied the cargo from a large enclosed trailer. It had made its way from Milford, Ohio. Milford is just east of Cincinnati. Such a small town, I thought I’d help you locate it without searching for it on a map or in an Atlas. A church there has set up a missionary outreach program to provide Scripture in different languages to missionaries and churches who request it. Inside the trailer were boxes and bundles of John and Romans that had to be separated, folded, assembled, then stapled. Staplers and the trimmer were placed in the gymnasium, waiting for the morning when our church members would gather to join the different sections and ready them for distribution.

Saturday morning at 8:30, a bit earlier for those who couldn’t wait we began to fold the colorful cover sheets which were passed to another table. While we were doing this, one group was placing one part inside the other in correct order. The Gospel was carried to the table with the folded covers and workers there tucked the printed word inside. Those compiled pages were carried to the staplers and secured in a booklet form. Then off to the trimmer to be cut and placed into boxes ready for shipping. Each table kept the young couriers busy moving products from one station to the next.

Our task was a little greater this time assembling. The books of John and Romans were printed in Croat and English, so the finished product was thicker and slightly harder to tear apart and assemble. The people in Croatia are eager to learn English and the English was an incentive for them to accept the Scripture. The group in Croatia will pass out the booklets we assembled. An invitation will be given to attend a rally in the month of September. Those who come to the assembly for the preaching of God’s word will receive a Croat Bible.

After 4 hours of constant movement, we were able to correlate 6,591 copies to add to the Scripture that was assembled by other churches. Because we have Seedline in several times per year, we complete about 20,000 copies yearly.