My dear Friend,
It’s letter-time again. And I am glad to have this opportunity to greet you and to thank you for your prayers and support, and your friendship and partnership, in this great work that the Lord has given to us.
What a joy it is to be a part of the Family of God! And what a privilege we have to be God’s agents to bring others into His great Family!
Children, even little children, can be born again into God’s Fam- ily, as the Lord Jesus so clearly said.
Some time ago, a mother phoned me and told me this story about her little boy, John. John was in our cassette-a-month club. He went to bed each night with his cassette player and listened to a Bible story. This particular morn- ing, when he came down to break- fast, he announced, “Mom, I’ve been born again.”
Mom was surprised. “John, what do you mean, ‘I’ve been born again’?”
“Oh, last night I listened to
Mrs. G’s Bible story about a man called Nicodemus, and Jesus said to him, ‘Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.’ ”
Mom talked to her little son and found that he understood the story in John 3:1-16 and that he had put his trust in Jesus Christ, who died on the Cross to take away his sins.
I was delighted to hear this. The mother asked me, “Would you talk to John when he comes home from school.”
“I would love to,” I said. And I found that 5-year-old John had understood clearly what Jesus had said to Nicodemus and had put his trust in the Lord Jesus.
When I heard this story, I was excited. Now that Bible Stories Alive are on INTERNET I am even more excited. Almost all the Bible Stories Alive are on Internet, about 500 stories—More parents will be able to download the stories for their children. Last week, a mother sent me this email:
“Thank you SO much for making these stories available as MP3 download! I have long been
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wanting to have my children listen to these stories but couldn’t afford the cost of the CDs....I just wanted to write and tell you how much this means to me.”
People in the developing countries can now download the stories free of charge. Missionaries working in Asia say that millions of young people in Asia are eager to learn English. And the official Chinese newspaper People’s Daily reported recently that more than 300 million in China (about one quarter of the population) have studied English.
Let’s pray that many, many will listen to the Bible stories by Internet and that they will “be born again through the living and endur- ing word of God” (1 Peter 1:23).
Thank you for being a part of this wonderful opportunity and privilege God is giving us to pro- claim the Good News of His love to all the children of the world.
God bless you always. Yours sincerely,