Two volunteers had an appointment at seven-thirty this morning to join a broadcast on a Christian radio station, KLFC. The show’s hosts asked about our involvement with Bibles for America, so we told them about our cross-country motor home trips and encouraged anyone who would like to volunteer to call Bibles for America’s toll free number or to visit the Web site. The radio station announced that Bibles for America would be at an area Wal-Mart at ten o’clock to distribute free Recovery Version New Testaments. During the show, twelve people called in to request Bibles, many of them businessmen who listen to the program regularly.

After the program, we mentioned that we wanted to go to Fort Leonard Wood to distribute Bibles. They suggested that we contact a retired military chaplain, which was exactly what the retired military officer had told us in Joplin. We were given the name and contact information for this man.

We arrived at the Wal-Mart at around ten o’clock. After much prayer together, we set up a table to distribute New Testament Recovery Versions near the store exit. Later we set up a table at the motor home. Some received brochures at the store exit, walked to their cars, drove by the motor home, and stopped to get a Bible. Many said that they had heard the radio broadcast earlier in the day announcing our gift offer. In total, we distributed 330 Bibles.

• A woman who had heard the radio broadcast came to the table and told us that she and her husband would love to drive their recreational vehicle and do what we were doing. She said that distributing Bibles was something worthwhile.
• Another woman was so engrossed in reading the Recovery Version that her husband, who was nearby reading entertainment brochures, could not get his wife to put down the Bible and look at his brochures.
• We gave Bibles to people from at least 30 different states who were on vacation.
• A man came to the table and said that his wife had heard on the radio that Bibles for America was coming to Wal-Mart today. She insisted that he take her to the store today to get her Recovery Version. He stayed and talked to us for a long time; she is eager for the Old Testament Recovery Version to come out.

Tonight we ate dinner at McFarlain’s Restaurant in the lobby of the IMAX Entertainment Complex. The manager of the complex approached our table and asked us to meet his wife who had heard us on the radio and wanted to receive five Bibles for their family. We told her that we had planned to leave tomorrow unless the Lord opened up a distribution location for us, so she asked the management if we could set up inside the mall tomorrow.