The Gideons International is a Christian organization dedicated to sharing the Gospel worldwide by distributing scriptures in strategic locations and to specific demographics, with numerous impactful testimonies illustrating the transformative power of God's word.
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creation and delivery of your own Gideon
presentation during the next 10 minutes
pay close attention to how the speaker
communicates verbally and non-verbally
notice his body language in eye contact
also pay attention to how the script is
put together and how he supports his
fine I'm going
home that's what a woman told her
boyfriend in the Central African
Republic it all started because he was
going on a business trip he had a very
important decision to make should he
take his wife or his
girlfriend wife the
girlfriend he decided to take the
girlfriend at the hotel she unpacked
while he sat down he noticed a blue book
sitting on a table and he picked it up
it was a new testament placed by The
Gideons now I don't know what verses he
read but in a matter of minutes he was
convicted of his
sin so when the girlfriend announced
that everything was put away he looked
at her and said we can't be here like
this this is
wrong so she said fine I'm going home
she packed up called a taxi and left
now the man had to stay for his meetings
but every spare moment he had he read
that new testament when he went home he
took the New Testament with him as soon
as he got home he ran to find the pastor
of a nearby Christian church and asked
can you tell me about the man named
Jesus that I've been reading about in this
this
book today this man and his family are
Christians and he's also a Gideon The
Gideons International is an ass
Association of born again Christian
Business and Professional men since 1899
our purpose has been sharing the gospel
with the world today we are organized in
180 countries and publish scriptures in
more than 80 languages we place Bibles
in designated traffic Lanes of Life
places like hotels motels hospitals and
convalescent homes uh we also distribute
New Testaments to students in schools
and colleges to prisoners and to police
fire and medical person personnel as
well as men and women in the armed
forces as members of local churches
Gideon's visit congregations to let you
know how God is using the seeds we are
sewing we are an extension of the local
church and work in partnership with
Believers like you all around the
world by God's grace we placed and
distributed over 63 million scriptures
last year and since 1908 we have placed
more than 1.2 billion scriptures around
the world you might also be interested
to know that we've distributed hundreds
of thousands of Testaments to military
personnel in the Middle East including
Iraq the promise of Isaiah 5511 is
fulfilled and God's word does not return
void as men women boys and girls come to
Christ the reading of scripture placed
by a Gideon in El Salvador Gideons were
offering New Testaments to children at a
school with afternoon and morning
sessions uh the morning distribution
went well but when they came back that
after noon they found that some of the
scriptures they had passed out earlier
had been ripped
up The Gideons picked up all the pages
they could find and prepared for the afternoon
afternoon
distribution when the last distribution
was over and they were on their way home
they stopped at a store on the edge of
town sitting on the doorstep was a young
man he was
crying as they approached the young man
he looked up and asked can you tell me
about this man I've been reading
about this man
Jesus in his hand was a single page torn
from a Gideon New
Testament a couple of Gideon stayed with
the young man the others went inside
where they found an older man he was also
also
crying that's my son out there he
said I've never seen him cry before
you've got to tell me about this man named
named
Jesus and that day both Father and Son
received Christ as their
savior we all agree on how important it
is for people to have the word of God
it's such a simple idea giving a new
testament to someone or putting a Bible
in a hotel room yet it is an incredibly
effective way to share the love of God
like the night Elliot owit planned to kill
kill
himself it was Christmas Eve and his
wife had just locked him out of the
house but who could blame her
he had not been a good father or husband
for years he had traveled the world
pursued his own success and indulged in
all kinds of immoral activities he was
away from home even as his wife
struggled to raise two of their
grandchildren and cope with breast
cancer at the same time so there was
Elliot in a hotel room on Christmas Eve
with a
gun but on the
TV was an open Gideon
Bible now this irritated Elliot he
knocked it onto the floor he tried to
kick it under the bed but it wouldn't go
the bed frame was solid right down to the
the
floor and the
Bible was still
open as Elliot picked it up he read John
14:27 peace I leave with you my peace I
give unto you not as the world giveth
give I unto you let not your heart be
Afraid Elliot spent three days in that
hotel room reading the
Bible on Sunday he attended church with
his wife and gave his life to
story Elliot owit was called by God into
Ministry and is now a pastor in North Carolina
millions of people have never heard the
good news many will never be able to own
a personal copy of the scriptures unless
one is given to them consider the story
of a prisoner in
bellarus he received a Gideon New
Testament and valued it so much that he
copied a chapter to send with every
letter he mailed to his wife and this
continued until at last his wife had a
complete handwritten copy of her
own both of them came to trust Jesus
Christ and are now members of a local
church you see it's so easy for us to
obtain Bibles that it's hard to
understand how precious a copy of God's
word is to so many around the world in
some countries such as Thailand the
children bow their heads and extend both
hands as they accept their
copies in other countries Gideon New
Testaments may be the only books
children in school have to
study that was the case in Ghana where a
group of Gideons distributed more more
than 300,000 scriptures many to school
children in just two
weeks after one of the distributions A
teacher told The Gideons they will read
and understand this Bible because I am
their reading teacher this will be our
textbook the New Testament will be the
first book they can call their own I
know God must have sent you today when
are you coming
back there are more than 500 schools yet
to be visited in that one city in
Ghana and we estimate that there are at
least 600,000 additional school children
there waiting for New
Testaments so when will we go
back where will we go
next even though we are placing or
Distributing more than two scriptures
every second the need is even greater
and you may be wondering how you can
help well our number one need is for prayer
prayer
please pray for a steady flow of funds
to purchase scriptures and for open
doors to the countries and communities
that need them
most and if God has placed it on your
heart I would ask you to consider a
financial gift every scripture we
distribute every salvation story is the
result of the generosity of somebody
just like
you at the close of the service you will
have the opportunity to help purchase
scriptures to be placed by Gideons in
this area and around the world
the New Testaments we distribute in more
than 160 countries outside the United
States cost an average of just
$11.30 $130 will purchase a box of 100
and send it any place in the world
Gideon Hotel Bibles cost just $5 each
and they have the potential to reach
more than 2,300 people over the course
of about 6 years in a hotel room for
your convenience you can make a check
payable to The Gideons or use the credit
card form that's available in your
bulletin insert remember every every
dollar you contribute will be used to
purchase produce and ship
scriptures you can also help purchase
scriptures throughout the year by using
the Gideon Memorial bible program the
cards are free and you may use them to
recognize an important event to let
someone know you're thinking of them or
to place scriptures in memory of a loved
one please look for the display in your
lobby you'll find more details on the
memorial bible program in your Gideon bulletin
bulletin
insert Pastor thank you for the
opportunity to share about the worldwide
Ministry of The Gideons International
congregation thank you for your
attention it has been a privilege to
participate in your worship service
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