Wednesday, December 5, 2001 - This morning the crew members who stayed
overnight here in Shreveport gathered at eight o'clock for prayer. We
were joined by two local volunteers to visit the Louisiana State University,
Shreveport (LSUS). There are about 5,000 students on this commuter campus.
Here's a sampling of today's time:
A business
administration professor ran into the Student Union where we were. One
of his students had shown him the Recovery Version he had just gotten
and the professor wanted one for himself. Later, he exhorted all his
students to go to the Student Union to get a Bible and informed us that
there would be a rush after his class.
A
student was unsure whether he wanted a Bible. He asked, "Is this
Bible written like the King James Version?" We told him, "No.
The Recovery Version is an accurate translation from the Greek written
in easy-to-understand English. His response was, "Great, because
I don't understand my King James Version, and I really wanted to get
a Bible I could understand."
One girl
had just bought a study Bible but felt that the Recovery Version contained
better footnotes than the new one she paid for.
A leader
of a Christian youth group got a Recovery Version and thought the footnotes
were excellent. He requested twenty-five brochures offering a free New
Testament Recovery Version to give to his group.
A man
waiting to give blood at a donation center came to get a Recovery Version.
The footnotes impressed him. He was concerned for his teenage children
and wanted to read the Recovery Version with them.
A girl
had just been in a car accident, and her back was sore. We urged her
to go to a doctor to get checked, but she insisted that she first wanted
to get a Bible and see some footnotes. We read with her Philippians
4:6-7: "In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and
petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
and the peace of God, which surpasses every man's understanding, will
guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus." We then read
the footnotes: "Anxiety, coming from Satan, is the sum total of
human life and disturbs the believers' life of living Christ; forbearance,
coming from God, is the sum total of a life that lives Christ. The two
are opposites" (footnote 1, verse 6). "The result of practicing
fellowship with God in prayer is that we enjoy the peace of God. The
peace of God is actually God as peace (v. 9) infused into us through
our fellowship with Him by prayer, as the counterpoise to troubles and
the antidote to anxiety (John 16:33)" (footnote 1, verse 7).
Today at
LSUS we distributed 490 wallet cards, 214 college brochures, 10 small
New Testaments without footnotes, and 129 New Testament Recovery Versions.
The
crew that was in Baton Rouge drove in and rejoined us here in Shreveport,
and at one thirty we all left Shreveport and headed for Dallas, Texas
with much praise to the Lord for all His marvelous doings among the people.
We joyously arrived in Dallas at four thirty, fellowshipping about all
that Christ is.
Report
Day 50: Wednesday, 12/05/2001
A
student was unsure whether he wanted a Bible. He asked, "Is this
Bible written like the King James Version?" We told him, "No.
The Recovery Version is an accurate translation from the Greek written
in easy-to-understand English. His response was, "Great, because
I don't understand my King James Version, and I really wanted to get
a Bible I could understand." 
The
crew that was in Baton Rouge drove in and rejoined us here in Shreveport,
and at one thirty we all left Shreveport and headed for Dallas, Texas
with much praise to the Lord for all His marvelous doings among the people.
We joyously arrived in Dallas at four thirty, fellowshipping about all
that Christ is. 