Report Day 16: Thursday, 11/1/2001

Thursday, November 1, 2001 - We began our day by leaving Palatine, Illinois in the morning for downtown Chicago and some campuses in the Chicago area. After a time of prayer and fellowship with some Chicago volunteers, we divided into three teams. One team of seven headed for the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Illinois and began their distribution work around eleven thirty. The second team of seven went to the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the third team drove the motor home to Daly Center in downtown Chicago.

This was our most productive day so far. At Northwestern, we passed out 2,085 BfA brochures offering a free Recovery Version; at U.I.C. we passed out 2,151; and in Daly Center we passed out 3,350, making a total of 7,586 pieces, including 155 Recovery Version New Testaments that we gave away.

Some highlights from today:
  • At Northwestern a student was so impressed with the footnotes we read to him from the Recovery Version that he commented, "These are like Cliff Notes. They help you understand the deeper meaning of what you are reading."
  • At U.I.C. a Christian woman who normally hands out Christian tracts on Thursdays gladly received a New Testament from one of our volunteers. Later she met another volunteer and said, "I come here every Thursday to hand out tracts, and I stand right where you are standing to do this." Our volunteer apologized for taking her spot. However, she said, "Oh, don't apologize. What you are doing is a real answer to prayer. These students need the Bible." Then she stood a few feet away and began to hand out her tracts and referred those responsive to her to us for a free Bible.
  • In downtown Chicago, two women police officers wanted a New Testament Recovery Version. They left their post temporarily to obtain them and stayed with us reading footnotes for quite a while until their sergeant came. Then they hurried back to their duties, hugging their New Testaments.
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The overwhelming response to the free Recovery Versions by so many kinds of people is a real encouragement to us and strengthens us in our labor.

Our experience of the past few days reminds us of Paul's word in 1 Corinthians 15:10 which says, "But by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace unto me did not turn out to be in vain, but, on the contrary, I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I but the grace of God which is with me." Praise Him!

 

Laboring by the grace of God with us,
The "Word of Truth USA" Crew




 

 



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