Six volunteers from Nashville and Murphysboro, Tennessee joined the motor home crew today. While four volunteers distributed Bibles at a Wal-Mart in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in the morning, two volunteers drove the motor home to Fort Campbell, which lies on the border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee (about sixty miles northwest of Nashville).

Fort Campbell
About two weeks ago, a Bibles for America volunteer had contacted a chaplain at Fort Campbell about distributing Bibles on the base. The chaplain had expressed interest in receiving Recovery Versions, so the volunteer said that he would return with a delivery. With access to the base, our two volunteers drove the motor home into Fort Campbell with their delivery of Bibles and gift offer brochures. They met three chaplains at the chaplains’ activity center and gave them 2400 brochures offering free Recovery Versions to distribute. One chaplain who has a congregation of 50-60 Spanish-speakers said that he would read through the brochure and place a request for Spanish Bibles, which we will come back to deliver later. We also got the mailing address of the chaplain resource manager to whom we can send more materials.

Our two volunteers stopped for lunch at a fast food restaurant within Fort Campbell and noticed three men having lunch and fellowshipping over an open Bible. They were reading from Romans 6, so our volunteers joined them and shared footnotes from Romans 6 with them. All three received Recovery Versions.

Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Volunteers at the Wal-Mart in Hopkinsville, Kentucky distributed 170 Bibles this morning. Thirty-four of these Bible recipients wanted further contact and guidance in using the Recovery Version, and six people received the Lord Jesus Christ!

• We met a man from Germany who was very interested in the Recovery Version. We read John 15:1 to him with the footnote (about abiding in the Lord as branches in the vine). With appreciation, he said, “I had to come all the way to the U.S. for this.”
• Another man said that he had started reading the Bible several times in his life but had never read through it completely because he did not understand what he was reading. After reading a verse and footnote from the Recovery Version, he said he was so happy to read and understand the Bible.

Clarksville, Tennessee
This afternoon, we went to another Wal-Mart in Clarksville, Tennessee, which is about twenty-five minutes from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. We distributed a total of 165 Bibles, with 41 Bible requesters wanting to be contacted again by BfA volunteers in their area.

• Two teenage sisters requested Bibles and asked for gift offer brochures to distribute to their home Bible study group. One of them asked whether she could pray for us, so we all stopped our activity around the display table and joined her as she prayed for us.
• When we asked a man whether he had prayed to receive the Lord Jesus, he said that he was “on the verge” of receiving the Lord. After reading John 3:16 and verses in Romans 10 about calling on the name of the Lord, he and our volunteer called on the Lord’s name together and he asked the Lord to come into his heart.