Bahrain’s new Bible Centre
offers improved facilities

The Bahrain representative of the Bible Society in the Gulf serves customers in the second Bible Society Centre in Bahrain which opened on March 18, 2002. Bahrain. Photo BSGulf/Babu Ganta (BAH02DJ-3.JPG)

BAHRAIN — The opening of a second Bible Society Centre is set to play a key role in boosting the profile of Bible work in Bahrain.
The building, located in the courtyard of the National Evangelical Church, will offer improved facilities for displaying and storing stock and will build on the success of the resource centre which has been operating in the premises of St Christopher’s Cathedral in collaboration with the Anglican Church since March 2001.

Vision

Hrayr Jebejian, Executive Secretary of the Bible Society in the Gulf, spent two years planning and implementing this US$100,000 project. The work received strong international support via Opportunity 21, the UBS global expansion initiative, and would also not have been possible without the vision of the Rev Dick Westra, senior pastor at the National Evangelical Church.

A joint celebration attended by priests, pastors and leaders and members of a number of congregations was held in March to mark the formal opening of the new centre and the rededication of the National Evangelical Church building.

The Rev Miller Milloy, UBS Europe-Middle East Regional Secretary, unveiled a commemorative plaque at the ceremony. He emphasised that “we cannot trap God in the Bible any more than we can trap him in a building”. However, he continued, “God’s Word is the means by which people come into the kingdom, and the Word is the seed of the kingdom”. For this reason, Bible Societies are committed to making the Bible, “God’s handbook for living”, available to all people. (WR 370/17 - 9.02) [PHOTOS]