Boston College
The Lord began to answer our prayers for the day's labors when we arrived at this Jesuit college just outside of Boston. We rolled the vans and the motor home up to the center of this lovely New England campus as the invited guests of their law school's Christian Legal Society. We set up our table with Bibles and literature, and as classes were dismissed, hundreds of students and several faculty members accepted our brochures offering a free Recovery Version New Testament. Many went directly to the table to receive their Bibles. Within about one hour, we had run out of our allotment of Bibles to give away at this campus. The rate of acceptance of the offer seemed as high or higher than at other campuses we have visited, and the positive response to the Recovery Version was very encouraging.

Boston University
After we left Boston College, we drove on to Boston University in the city of Boston. We set up our table in front of Marsh Chapel and began giving away New Testaments to hungry students and other people walking by. A Ph.D. theology student who is in his last year came up to the table. After talking for a short time with us we asked him what his favorite verse was. He said that it was John 3:16 because nearly his entire family back home in Nigeria had received the Lord through reading it. We read him the footnote on that verse in the Recovery Version New Testament, which says "to believe into Him is to receive Him and be united with Him as one." He then told us that although he had read many books in the course of his studies, he had never read such a short paragraph and gained so much understanding from it as this one in the New Testament Recovery Version. He left with his very own copy, delighted! We passed out hundreds of offers and over 50 Bibles. Many people turned in requests for Bibles to be mailed to them.

Northeastern University
After our time at Boston University, we went on to visit Northeastern University, also in the city of Boston. Some of the volunteers said that they passed out the most offers and had their best conversations with the students there. One of the first girls we met there excitedly asked if we were giving away Bibles because she needed one. When we told her that we were, she received one and then returned with two friends, encouraging them to receive one also, which they did. A bus driver asked a volunteer to board the bus and then asked for all the gift packs and brochures we could give him so he could distribute them after work to all the other drivers in the bus system. He was so happy to have found us and said he would pray for our tour. A young Muslim man gladly received his offer when he learned that the Bible and the truth it proclaims is not for Europeans only but for every person on earth. The Bible is a universal blessing to all who wish to receive it.

MIT and Harvard
Our day ended with half of the team going to MIT and the other half to Harvard, two prestigious campuses in nearby Cambridge. There, hundreds more received our invitations in a little more than an hour of labor. One volunteer distributed over 300 brochures on the edge of Harvard Yard in less than an hour.

We strongly felt that the soil of the hearts of students on New England's campuses is very soft and open to the Lord's Word. We all sensed that the seed of the gospel of the kingdom was deeply sown into the soil of these colleges today. We pray that now the Lord would send the rain. May the Lord bless the New Testaments received and ordered and cause every seed sown to multiply greatly!