In the midst of all our excitement at welcoming back our colleagues from South Africa, we sent another staff member to Eastern Europe to teach, preach, and encourage pastors and Bible students in the Balkans.
He also took several hundred pounds of books with him.
Last week I received this in an email:
The meetings are all going well. The students at the Bible school gobbled up the books. I did not know that the school has ZERO books. They are all English speakers so they were starved for theological reading.
Zero books—as much as we talk about the extraordinary lack of theological resources available for Christian leaders around the world, that phrase still stunned me.
Yet it also encouraged me to thank God for what he is doing through donations to Desiring God. That statement—"zero books"—is no longer true for those students at that Bible school! The books were provided completely free of charge to the students because God provided through financial gifts from our partners.
Encouraging and preparing future leaders with sound theological resources is the kind of work that is accomplished through general donations to Desiring God and gifts to the One Percent Campaign. Would you prayerfully consider joining us in this work?
