Knights Templar Church Donates Bibles to Panay Alliance Church, Philippines
How fantastic is this? The Knights Templar Church’s first appeal success! As Minister/Pastor for the church, I a so proud of our members who have donated to this very worthy cause. You can rest assured that these bibles (in a local language) will be well used by the congregation here in Panay Alliance Church.
The Pastor of Panay Church assures me that bible studies will now be significantly enhanced as members can now read along with scriptures. Many elderly members struggle both with their eyesight and hearing (I personally can attest to my own hearing difficulties). So being able to read scriptures that are being taught and discussed is a huge advantage.
In the end, after a lot of prayer and encouragement from the Holy Spirit, I finally decided to change which bibles to buy with your generous donations. Many sermons and teaching here concentrate on the New Testament (but not all). So it seemed sensible to find a more recent translation of the NT in Filipino/Tagalog. I was able to find a Philippine publisher who provided just that. The bibles were a large point text hardback which contained the whole NT plus Psalms and Proverbs. In the end I was able to buy 21 copies (3 of which were leatherette bound copies).
You can see the publishers’ website here:
I also chose to go for 10 full bibles (Old & New Testaments) in a 2000 translation from the KJV. In addition to these I got some paperback Tagalog language books containing the Gospel of John, which are ideal givaways for new converts from evangelical outreach. There were also a few freebie booklets from the supplier.
I want to extend a huge thank you to all those members who generously donated to this appeal. Without your help, this appeal would not have been possible.
May God bless you all.
Deus Vult!
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