RUSSIAN BIBLES
Millions of Bibles for the Soviet Union are in the pipeline or on order, according to an analysis of Bible society and mission agency figures. For example, the Colorado-based International Bible Society will print one million New Testaments on a government-controlled press near Moscow for distribution through the Soviet Children’s Fund, a secular agency founded in 1987 to support orphans and strengthen the family. The Fund’s chairman, a member of the Supreme Soviet, requested the Scriptures, the IBS said. The 1.37 million Scriptures the IBS provided to the USSR prior to the Fund’s project have been distributed through the churches….50 million Bibles, Testaments, and children’s illustrated Bibles for the USSR, the training of 50,000 Soviet lay pastors and evangelists, equipping 5,000 Soviet churches with Christian education and other materials and using the Soviet mass media to proclaim the gospel. These are the goals of Wheaton, Illinois-based Slavic Gospel Association (SGA), whose leaders hope to recruit thousands of churches in the West…
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