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Diary of a Front Line Worker
April 20, 2006

God worked in amazing ways as volunteers distributed Bibles in Southeast Asia to tourists from China over the Chinese New Year holiday. Read some selected excerpts from the diary of one of the volunteers:

There were moments last night when we literally could not get the Bibles out of the boxes fast enough to keep up with the waves of tourists coming by.

The young man who accepted Christ was named Liao He is 17. His father, a professor at a Beijing university, asked me to share with his son about God on the pier. He himself had met God in Russia when he was studying abroad. The son was ready to receive Christ after we went through the 4 spiritual laws. They want me to come to Beijing to baptize him.

I met four Muslim men from Xinjiang, Western China. I offered them Bibles. They wouldn't take them. I said they were free. They said they couldn't take them because they were Muslims. I told them even Muslims need to know God, His love, and His grace. They took them and started reading them. I went through the spiritual laws with them in the lobby (of the hotel).

One woman was so moved by what we were doing that, although she was not a Christian yet, she said that she wanted to give up the next three days of her vacation and help us distribute the Bibles to her countrymen. She was from Guangzhou and had been attending a house church and had started reading the Bible.

By the time the evening was over, 1080 tourists had taken a Bible and a packet of evangelistic literature. We ferociously handed them out from 6:00 p.m. until around 1:00 a.m. because the groups kept on coming. It was one of, if not the highest, response ever seen in an evening distribution.

Two other things touched our hearts on these evenings. First, a woman from a Christian TV station in Taipei came up to us and gave us her entire New Year's bonus to help fund the ministry here. Second, two of the people that I had shared the gospel with a few evening's earlier came back to the pier on both those evenings to help us pass out the Bibles.

There was one little (seven-year old) girl. She didn't get a Bible and she wanted one. So, she left her parents and ran back 300 feet to where I was standing and said, "Please may I have a Bible?" Then she literally skipped back to board her bus.

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