Florence Paguio has finished printing Character Code for Life Module 3 for twelve thousand students in the Philippines. It goes out with VBS sample kits to more than two hundred churches at the annual Bible conference in May, with distributions in San Fernando, Manila and, for the first time, on the island of Negros.
Jacob Tubal reports more than 270 children and teens at a summer church camp, where he is working with the ninety or so teenagers. He asks prayer for the ministry building near Yangon: the site can be filled and the floor poured, and the rest waits on God's provision.
A five-lesson walk through Psalm 23 for preschool, primary, intermediate and teens. It will be translated into every ICP language, beginning with the Philippines. Our thanks to the writers who gave their work freely: Brenda Jackson, Carolyn Daniel, Jeanie Cash, and Lew and Nicole England.
Titus and Moses worked with about 145 children at a camp in western Kenya, giving sixty copies of Character Code for Life to each church that came, then distributing to twelve more. A second Bible school brought in four churches and 47 children.
Jacob Tubal is translating the VBS series The Master of the Sea into Burmese while his wife Priscilla renders it into Falam Chin, the birth language of their people. It is the first time anything has been translated into that language.
First Baptist Church of Cave City, Arkansas is finishing its eighth year of Character Clubs. Children who started as preschoolers are now in the intermediate class. In the past eight years there have been more than eighty professions of faith and baptisms among the young people there.
We are praying that God will provide, and that God will use His people in His provision.
Property is bought and there are funds to prepare the site and pour the floor. The building itself, which will house Jacob and his family along with the office, printshop and an assembly hall, still waits on provision.
For Moses and Titus in Kenya, printing for the churches of South Sudan. For Jacob and Priscilla in Myanmar. For Pavel, whose Russian translation is now going to press for the churches of Belarus.
For the children who will open these books this year, in a language they can read, many of them for the first time. And for the teachers and parents who will sit down beside them.
A few of the markers along the way.
Bill and Rita Johnson start the ministry to put children's Bible literature into the languages of the world.
Written as a special project for school children in the Philippines. It grew into a nine-year, six-module curriculum.
Printshop, warehouse, office and guest apartment on a one-acre campus outside San Fernando, Pampanga.
Translated into seven languages, taught in more than a dozen countries, and in churches across the United States.
These reports exist because churches and individuals fund the printing and pray for the work.
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