No more upside-down BiblesFERMATHE, Haiti — Wallace Turnbull is as excited about the O-21-funded Creole New Testament as he has been about any Scripture distribution during his 55 years in Haiti. And the veteran Baptist missionary can already foresee the results of this new distribution. “Each of these New Testaments will be going into a home. And it is through the homes that we are reaching the people. He contrasts the situation today with that of years ago. “It is thrilling to be in a church now and see people with their Bibles. When we first came we used to see literally half the people holding their Bibles upside down! They wanted to own a Bible, but they didn’t know how to read it. Holy thing“It was superstition. They felt that the Bible was a holy thing and blessed by God, so they would get one and bring it to church – and hold it upside down. Now on Sunday when the pastor gives a Bible reference, you hear the whish of pages being turned. All over the church people are reading their Bibles. And this has come from children using the Bible as they grow up. So these New Testaments will get a lot of children used to using God’s Word – they’ll form the habit of using it. And it will influence their families.” (WR 363/6 - 10.01) [PHOTOS] |