Literature for Africa has been a vital part of frontline fellowship for many years, and we average distributing about 100 tons of Bibles and books completely free every year in many languages. How do you reach the world? The world is huge. We're talking about 8 billion people, 8,000 different ethnolinguistic people groups. How can we effectively evangelize the world? Well, we believe the power of the printed page is a key part of it. Of course, radio evangelism is important. Digital evangelism we'll deal with later. But the printed page is a vital part of our work. 2 Timothy 3 verse 16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. You cannot be an effective Christian or evangelist without the scripture. We must be people of the word. We've got to know the God of the word, and we've got to know the word of God. And so it's the scripture that we need to be continually focused on. You see, that is the focus of Liturgy of Africa's pull-up banner, our logo. It's a key focus of Frontline Fellowship's banner as well, the scripture. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of the Lord endures forever. And so we may leave, but hopefully we leave literature behind, and we leave people in possession of the scriptures. So the Word of God not only is seed sowing and a point of contact, but in many cases it is the ongoing discipleship work. We're like the scaffolding. We're just here temporarily, but the Word of God endures forever. And it's God's word that gives us light. Life is short, eternity is not. And so these people who are wasting time on earth, when we should be working for eternity, everything we do should be in the light of eternity. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. As Jesus said, it's the word of God that is the truth that sets us free. If you love me, Jesus said, you will keep my commandments. And this last command should be our first concern. to go into all the world and make themselves all nations. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and the salvation of everyone who believes. It is the gospel that is the power of God. And so the sword of the Spirit, the word of God, is at the center of our missionary identity. And gospel literature is a vital part of our work. It is the spiritual ammunition in a spiritual world war. The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. To reach so many nations, we need the Word of God in every language. The Lord gave the Word. Great was the company of those who proclaimed it. And we think back to the professor of Oxford University, Professor John Wycliffe, the morning star of the Reformation. He translated the scriptures into English, and then he sent out his lords, his evangelists, the field workers of the Reformation, to go out into highways and byways, to do open-air preaching, to preach in the marketplaces, to distribute handwritten gospel texts, because they didn't have the printing press yet. This is back in the 1300s, the morning star of the Reformation. So that's why the biggest Bible translation mission in the world is called Wycliffe Bible Translators. And I've actually been to this very church in Letterworth and that doorway where John Wycliffe commissioned these field workers of the Reformation to go out and preach in the marketplaces. That's what we must do. The written word can go where and when the human voice cannot. You can reach into a taxi, hand out a whole lot of gospel literature, and those are going to who knows how many homes and places that you could not easily reach. Gospel literature is the most cost-effective way of proclaiming the gospel. Here is a day that we received a 40-foot container with Two million gospel booklets in World Missionary Press gospel booklets, all scripture, 50 pages each. And we talk about something like 22 tons of gospel literature arrived in one day here. And that's quite a job. We've got to hire a forklift in days like that to get all these pallets organized. And you won't believe how many millions of gospel booklets we've been able to distribute from this place. According to World Missionary Press, and they keep strict records, Frontline First has already distributed 11 million gospel booklets in 100 languages, just from WMP alone. And they are best suppliers in many ways. Getting onto the streets, getting at the beachfronts like this in Altrichert, Nusenburg on New Year's Day, when people flock by the thousands to the beachfront. Well, it's so important to have a gospel presence on days like this. Literature has no passport or visa problems. We have passport and visa problems. Literature does not. Literature does not know any fear. We might get intimidated. It does not. And literature never loses its temper. We are frail human vessels. We are clay. We can so often lose our temper under different circumstances. The heat of the field after sleepless nights with friendly mosquitoes and rats running around, not just in the hut you're staying in, but over your bed and over your pillow and right over your face. You may have been woken up since 2 in the morning Rooster's crowing or some drunken soldier firing a machine gun right outside your room, but literature will not be bothered by that. It never gets tired. We might get tired, but literature does not get tired. It keeps working when we are asleep. It is never discouraged. Even in the middle of a war zone, literature can patiently do its work. It can tell its story over and over again. The literature is the most effective work in so many ways. It speaks without an accent. We may have an accent, the literature speaks straight to the people in their accent. It never compromises. The written word is more permanent than the human voice. We may speak for a while, but when we go, hopefully we leave literature behind, and that will do the follow-up work. A drop of ink may make a million think. For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God to salvation of everyone who believes. So let's try and put feet to our faith here and apply key principles for literature ministry. Our mission started at the very beginning, smuggling Bibles across the border into Angola. And when people in Angola received the Bibles, I heard many a time, I've been praying for five years for my very own copy of the word of God. This is the greatest gift anyone could ever ask for, the Word of God in my own language. And that really solidified our work as we realized this can't just be a one-time going across the border delivering some Bibles. We need to keep coming back. We have people crying, weeping, falling on their knees, not since the Cubans burnt my Bible, I have the Word of God for myself. And we realized we've got to form a mission to organize literature to get across the border into the hands of people who most need it and are praying for it. So Frontline Fellowship has been importing tons, hundreds of tons of Bibles and books now for many years to get it across the border. It often arrives like this. Just this week on Thursday we had a container ship arrive here on our driveway. Originally we didn't realize you could fit a huge container shipment between our gates and so originally they would drop the container outside on the road here and we would have to offload and channel it down their driveway on our buckies or just on trolleys initially as well. Then we realized, actually, we could fit it through. It's a bit like a camel getting through the eye of a needle, but backing up these Pentecnicans, getting these 18-wheeler trucks to drop their container load in our driveway, and then we could offload and get things down the driveway to our stores at the back. Now, I've had people in World Missionary Press who've got docking bays where the vehicle actually goes down a slope. So when it arrives at the loading point, it's actually level with the loading. So that's what they call a loading bay. And here, we don't have a loading bay. When this house was built, which is the oldest house on the block, by the way, they never thought in terms of literary ministry and containers. Such things didn't exist back in the 1800s. But now we have to do a lot of it by hand. Okay. It's come by ocean on ships. It's been offloaded in the harbor. It's now trucked over to here. But from this point, it's going to be offloaded by hand. Normally something like 2,000 to 4,000 packages in a single container. This is what we call frontline Jim. You get to handle tons, moving tons. Who needs a gym membership when you can be involved in literature ministry? We are offloading tons. And I think Frank just did a measurement this last week. He had one of these wristwatch things that measures how many steps you took. Frank, how many steps did he take on Thursday offloading the literature container? 25,000. 25,000 steps. I think that's pretty. And that's not counting how many tons he physically handled. But this is a pallet, a pallet jack moving literature at the back. And this is a job completed. Well, you think it's completed, but offloading is only part of the job. Then it's sorting, categorizing. You might notice there was a time that the back, we didn't have a roof, we had a tent. And obviously we've got our pallets so that if any rain comes in, it doesn't soak the lift. You've got to protect the lift continually. Good shelves is key. Sometimes we've had all our men in the field, and then we've needed to get the women involved in doing the offloading. This is not our choice. We do believe the men should carry the heavy weights, but nevertheless, there have been times that You know, if man, God looks for a man who can stand the gap, and many times he has to choose a woman like Deborah or Esther, because there isn't a man around. But Jonathan for many years handled our stores, some of you may know him, and he did a spectacularly good job. But these are Bible studies. And now these Bible studies that come in great quantities, this is high quality. If you're in America, you'd pay hundreds of rands worth in dollars to get many of these studies but we get them free and the reason is the Americans print a date on them. Now of course Bible studies don't expire. I mean the Word of God is over 2,000 years old, in some cases 3,000 years old and It never expires, but I think the people who print the dates on these Bible studies, it's just because they wanted to expire so that you could go to buy the New Year's things. But it's good for us in Africa, so we get these free. And this is things that churches in America would pay a fortune for. The great Sunday school and Bible study materials, explore the book, wonderful materials. And then, I'm not sure why, but people donate to us. Brand new books as well. You can see some on the table at the back. Great books coming to us. And by the way, I don't like these strappers because that doesn't protect the book like putting it in the box does. Nevertheless, we're getting it free so we can't complain. And sometimes you get brand new Bibles in the original boxes. And you wonder why. I think what happens is churches in America ordered lots of Bibles for an outreach or new testaments, and then they didn't distribute them. Their eyes were bigger than their stomachs, so to speak. And then they donate it to this ministry in America who gathers up all the Bibles and books that are being abandoned, whether it's grandmother's library that some kids inherited and they donated to Eagle's Nest Ministries, or Gideon's Bibles that were in a hotel that's closed. But we get a whole lot of assorted boxes. We sort through them, sift through, Sunday school materials, get them organized, tracks, maybe churches. We're not using all the tracks that they had prepared for different outreaches, and we get them. And so, wonderful materials, absolutely extraordinary resources. You'll see all around this mission we've got stands, literature stands for different tracks. booklets that come to us, great Bible teaching materials. When I was first converted, one thing I did as a brand new Christian to kickstart my spiritual life because I knew nothing about anything to do with the Bible. I was brought up in a secular family. I'd never gone to church, never gone to Sunday school. And so every church I went to, I'd take one of every one of their tracts, all the booklets that were out, and I'd start studying there. And it sort of gave me a head start that I could get some condensed amounts of information about a subject in these booklets or tracts that would guide me around the Bible and This really is very helpful. For new converts, I encourage them to get as much as possible. Sometimes we get ministries that donate perfectly good hardcover books to us, and these are resources we put in libraries, especially Bible colleges. We've got all around the mission different shelves for pastors, for Bible students, for theological colleges. And so you can't have too many shelves. Here's the principle. There's no such thing as too many books, just not enough shelves. And so we've got shelves lining all of our hallways and a place where we can to organize these Bibles and books into the categories, you know, King James, New King James, ESV, and Gideon's Bibles and so on. Both the large Gideon full Bibles to the pocket New Testaments. And we have them arranged like this so that when people come, different missionaries, Bible colleges and so on, that we can supply them exactly what they need. So organizing is a key part of having good literature. And we make sure these get to the field where they're most needed. When the King James Bible celebrated 400 years, it was 1611, so in 2011, we got a whole lot of these donated because many churches had bought up vast amounts and maybe didn't distribute as energetically as they wanted. And fortunately, somebody shipped it out to us in Africa. So these get a lot more of an extended lifespan. There's some great New Testaments. I personally like the New King James Version. It's my Bible of choice. The KJV is, in many ways, the best Bible. New King James is virtually the same, except it's got the modern language, so no more these and those, and makes it more accessible. But we have a wide variety of different Bibles that we can distribute. And the Gideon's ones are tremendous, because they've got guidelines in as well. And we've got some reference Bibles. We've got those with dictionaries. We have study Bibles that come here. This is like gold. You can't have enough study Bibles. And the word of God is living and powerful. It's sharper than any two-edged sword. Piercing even to the division of soul and spirit of joints and marrow, it is the discernment of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. Literature of Africa is a quartermaster store for missions throughout Africa. And so people who want materials can come here and completely free. We are loading them up with Sunday school materials under the watchful supervision of the frontline cats. This is Florence. She is a legend. And she kept stores rodent free for 17 years. long service medal. Very dedicated cat, and when a person came to load up with literature, she'd sometimes in the winter jump on the bonnet to get some warmth, because it's quite cold in stores. As Frank can tell you, in the middle of winter it's extremely cold, and so Florence would make use of the bonnet of any car that came in, and sometimes they'd have to delay their departure because she wasn't finished yet. But Florence wiped out a lot of rodents. We are right opposite from Rondebosch Common, and so we have lots of rats. And I saw rats literally walking across the road, across the common, through our gates. And at that stage, we only had one cat. So we've imported more, and you've seen some of the signs. Welcome to cat world. Our cats here do a superb job. Well, how long does it take to offload a container shipment of 17 tons or more? Well, during a Great Commission course, we put a challenge to our team that had been training for three weeks, PT every morning, hikes many nights, and this team managed to offload in I think it was two hours and 10 minutes, which I think is our world record so far. And that's moving 17 times by hand. It was an enthusiastic team, fit, healthy, strong, very enthusiastic group. So this is the team that got the record. They managed to offload. And this would have been, I think, our 2014 Great Commission Course team. How do we distribute the literature effectively? Well, we often use events like Women's Day Outreaches. We will go to shopping centers and ask if we can set up stalls, literature tables, and make a stand. We also get onto the streets, traffic lights, and distribute a large amount of gospel literature on Women's Day. We thought, if they're going to have public holidays, we might as well use them for outreachers. We can do the same thing for Youth Day and so on. So faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. Do you have gospel booklets and literature to distribute to the people you encounter on a daily basis? Every man's shirt should have a pocket. I think shirts without a pocket are a waste of time. It's one reason why I never wear a T-shirt, except for PT, because you need a track pocket. And ladies' handbags should be used to have a good amount of tracks. You should have tracks in our cars. They've got panels on the side of your cars specifically for tracks. There's something I call a cubbyhole, which is obviously a track dispenser. So, make sure that you've got literature with you everywhere, because if you're at the traffic lights, and somebody's trying to give you some advert you can exchange, I'll take your advert, you take the gospel literature. If you're at a police roadblock, you can leave the gospel literature with them. If you're at the petrol station, wherever you're going, we can be, if you're at the Till shopping, you're paying the person, you can, you know, thank you for your service, may I offer you something to read. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. Are you regularly giving gospel booklets to your friends and co-workers and neighbors and strangers? Now, some people are a little scum and slow to do this. And I know some people start off by putting tracks under windscreen wipers. Well, I don't think that's the best. I think personal contact helps. But that's at least something. It's better than nothing. Some people put gospel tracts in people's letterboxes, and that is a possibility. Again, I think personal knock on the door, offering a personal John and Romans is better, but that's still better than nothing. It's seed sowing. And so there's many ways that we can distribute the literature, because it is living and powerful and sharp than any double-edged sword, even to the division of soul and spirit. Stock up on spiritual ammunition. We're involved in a world war of worldviews. This is a battle for hearts. It's a battle for minds and souls. What we do now has consequences for eternity. And it's wonderful when you've got churches and have track stands where you can actually put a whole lot of things for people to choose from. Because the pastor cannot possibly deal with every single problem, challenge that people are facing all the time. But if a person comes into his church and there's a track stand, and the person can see, oh, something here for depression, something here dealing with my questions about health, my questions about how to prepare for this or that. And so the literature can have a wide spectrum of counseling materials, Bible study materials, and evangelistic materials. Maybe the pastor's not preaching the gospel this morning, but a person who's come there wanting to find that can find it from the track stand. The track stand can affect so many different issues for the people who are interested at that time. So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to be void. It shall accomplish everything that I've sent it out to accomplish. Isaiah 55 verse 11 makes it clear. God's word is not just like a bullet or an arrow. It's a guided missile. It's like a heat-seeking missile. It will not fail to reach its target. It will accomplish what God has sent out to do. The word of God is a power. It's not just something printed. And so getting into shopping malls has been very effective for us for many years we've been doing this, 29 years we've been going into the shopping malls and distributing literature every women's day from 1995 on and it's had a tremendous impact. Lately we've solidified on mainly focusing on anti-human trafficking, but even our anti-human trafficking tracts have got the gospel in it, and the scripture is powerful and effective, and it's a relevant, important subject to deal with. So you can have dual-correct tracts that are specifically targeted on this occasion or this issue. And on occasion, we've even managed to get opportunities to put up charity book tables in shopping centers like Cavendish Square. We've even managed to do it in Kenilworth Centre and a few others. But it's a rare privilege when we could actually be in the shopping malls and set up a book table, a literature table, district gospel literature, and people were literally coming, buying Bibles in the shopping centers. And there was a lot of charities there. Now, this is a rare opportunity, and we did get complaints that we were evangelizing people coming into the shopping mall, which, of course, is our purpose. But one of our people was maybe a little bit too aggressive in accosting people coming in the mall. So after many years of being able to do this in Cavendish, they withdrew our invitation, which is sad. But we distributed a huge amount of literature in the shopping centers, even the upmarket shopping centers, for quite a while. Pleasant display, nice pull-up banners, and well-dressed people with a nice manner can make an impact, even in the busy shopping centers. Most shopping centers have a day in the year, or in this case they had a weekend, where they would let charities come in, you know, Animal Welfare Society, SBCA, and so on. And my wife's cancer survivor group was given permission, a reach for recovery people. So they were there. And then they found it too much work for them, so they gave their slot to us. So we got the benefit for several years of the reach for recovery people in Cavender Square. And if you've got nice, friendly, pleasant people, and good displays, you can attract a lot of folks. Somerset Mall, we, for 10 years, had the opportunity to go every Woman's Day and distribute literature. It was anti-trafficking awareness. And we initially started to use balloons. So for every Woman's Day, we would hand out balloons to the children. These are balloons with scripture messages on it. The first time we did it, we had someone dressed up as a clown, which is not necessary, but it certainly was attractive to the children. Even Canal Walk let us in for more than 10 years, and we could put up our displays, and we could distribute Bibles, books, literature, and these balloons were very effective. Thousands and thousands of balloons every year. We even had some people donate us Flowers to give to ladies, balloons to give to children. We had some chocolates to give to ladies when some people donated that too. This is quite a job. You have to be very organized, blowing up the balloons. You've got one team blowing up balloons, one blowers, and I don't mean by mouth, we'd have an inflator. Of course, this would never work for smokers, but we don't do that anyway. So the kids loved this. Like, stop human trafficking. Trafficking is modern day slavery. You shall know the truth. The truth shall set you free. The Bible is the greatest book ever written. Read the Bible every day. Give us this day our daily bread. The family that prays together stays together. And even the Muslims are happy to pick up these balloons. Then we were offering Bibles. We saw some of the Bibles that came in to us were entitled The Gift. So we offered people a free gift if they would complete this spiritual well-being survey. The spiritual well-being survey was basically Evangelism Explosion and Way of the Master questions. How would you describe God? If God was to ask you, why should I let you into my heaven, what would you answer? You get some interesting answers to that. You can start asking people, would you consider yourself to be a good person? Well, everyone considers themselves to be a very good person. They're not just good people, they're very good people. And then you can say, well, do you mind if I ask you some questions to see if that's true? Most people are happy to justify themselves, say yes. How many of the 10 commandments can you remember? And then you can start questioning them all the way down to, well, how many of these commands have you kept? Have you ever lied? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever looked with lust? Have you ever hated someone? Jesus said, to hate someone is like committing murder in your heart. And you can lead the people to Christ through the law of the Lord, which is perfect, converting the soul. Now, this last week, actually 10 days ago, we received a shipment of Yesus Macias books, Jesus Messiah, comic books, full color, illustrated, in Afrikaans. We received 10 tons of these. That's 50,000 copies. We can give to you some free today. And if you want more to distribute at schools, we can organize assemblies there. We'd be glad to come and deliver more and distribute and call the children to repentance, giving them these Jesus Messiah's books. So this is one of the great tools God's given us recently. We are now seeking the Lord for the means to print 250,000 because the 50,000 have moved so fast. So in 10 days, Richard Hafka has distributed already 35,000 of these Yeses Messias books. So you can see the need is so much greater than the supply. We can never have too many Bibles or Christian books. And you can't ever have too many comics either. It's so important. I've found in the army, every man will read every comic. in the bungalow. And Anthony said in prison, every prisoner would read every comic that came in. These comics are compulsive. Men will read comics. I don't know if that's true for women, but it certainly works for the men. And it's very effective. And Florence, keeping a good supervising eye over people in stores, And stores changes. It evolves. People don't evolve, but our stores evolve continually. You see, it's now got a nice roof. And we've got pallets. Everything's got to be off the ground. You've got to keep your literature damp and dust free. And so pallets are the first thing you lay down. Then you can put literature on top of it. If any liquid gets in, it must be underneath. It must never touch the literature. And of course, having things well boxed or plasticized helps. These are sometimes our stores are totally empty. Other times are overflowing. And it can change in a matter of weeks or days. In the case of we had, I mean, think of it, 13 pellets of Yesus Macias books 10 days ago. And when you go back there now, Frank, how many pellets are left now? Nothing. 5,940. So that's effectively a pallet mat. Now we've shown some pics but they're available in the front and the back tables too. So when a container arrives, the first thing to do is get them off the container and we get them nicely placed in the pallet. Notice you don't make a pile solid, you've got to stagger it. like you learned from the old bricklayers, how they would put the bricks so that the whole building doesn't fall down. You can't just stack everything in rows. It's going to fall. You've got to have things interlocking to keep it stable, especially as you get it down the driveway with our buckies or on our pallets. And it would be nice to have a more efficient way of offloading, but at the moment, it's all hand-by-hand. And then sometimes you get just a smaller shipment arriving. It's not always a full container. Sometimes you get a few pallets being delivered to us of literature, and then you've got to get your pallet jack up on top to be able to move it. This takes ingenuity and a bit of PT. So offloading the literature. Here's Vaughan back quite a few years ago. This must have been 2017, I think. 2017 team. But he's back again. And here you can see just Bible study materials. And then a certain amount of bibles come with black dot books, they mark black dot with assorted bibles, not new, and so on. And so these we've got to take out and sort through and work out what categories and what needs repairs and so on. But when it gets to the back, we offload. and IT people involved as well. You've got to watch what you're doing because we've had people standing there and then getting distracted. Maybe a lady walks past, next thing they get a box in their face or a bag. You've got to be alert when things are being thrown. These things are heavy. Literature is exceedingly heavy. Great Sunday school materials. And children's Sunday school materials you can never have enough of either. Then we get posters sometimes. And of course, the Broadway and Narrow Way are tremendous posters. These can evangelize many, many times over. You put them on the wall in a shop or a Sunday school or a school, it can continue to speak to people for many, many weeks and years to come. And they've got different numbers, and each number is linked to a Scripture verse you can have a Bible study just going through the broadway narrowway posters and now we've got God's answer and heaven or hell so there's three different varieties of these posters as well, which are excellent and Here again ladies sorting through literature on a rainy day in winter and Florence is ever-present in stores and And this was when we still had a veranda on that side, we were sorting through the books on that side so that we could work out what needs to go in. Mary's now taken over Florence's job as supervising. And here you can see how Frank has improved our way of categorizing. We've created these crates to receive the Sunday School materials, which can then be sorted through. Then sometimes you're just using trolleys. for particularly sorting through Bibles at the back here. And there's some come to us in disrepair. It's shocking to see how badly some people treat literature, but here's Tertia sorting through with glue and judicious use of cellotape. We can sometimes be able to give a Bible a second lease in life. We love the new Bibles we get too, but sometimes the old ones help. For stair training, you don't need a gym membership to get stair training and weight training. We can do it right here with the literature getting in. Sometimes we get old technology. I remember Sunday schools when I was converted in 1977. We've even got some of these in our display cabinets over there. Sunday school teachings with a little strip of film and the light shining through. It's very simple, but this was the audiovisual ministry back in the 70s and probably the 50s too. some great titles that we've received. We've got our own library here at Livingston House, and this library's also got audio and video sections. And of course, there's Christian Liberty Books as well, which has 6,000 titles. Most of the books are homeschooling titles, and these are some of the books we produce in-house in a mission. So we believe in literature ministry in every way we possibly can. And we've got, if you look at the cabinets at the back there, 140 titles of books that we've published in-house. If you count booklets, manuals, full books, and You'll also see some cabinets where we've got gifts on the field, which come from as far north as Egypt, as far west as Nigeria, from the Congo, Mozambique, Angola. And many of our in-house books have helped start Christian Action Groups and Reformation Societies around the world. Some authors donate their books to us. And then in our field stores, we've got some of the best materials to ensure it gets to the field. So the eye of the camel getting through the eye of the needle is the first step. And we've got these posters up around stores that you can see, reminding us of the power of the printed page. And then designated bibles in indigenous African languages. So this is special projects, when people donate money for us to get Bibles in Shona, Causer, Bemba, Techewa, China, and Afrikaans, because of course the Americans are not sending us Bibles in any of the indigenous African languages. We need a special designated project for that. And the only source is the Bible Society. And the Bible Society is no longer subsidized. When I was converted in 1977, the Bible Society sold a hardback Bible for two rand. Now they were subsidized. Now, Bibles also used to be tax exempt in South Africa. And obviously it isn't anymore. And so we could designate, if I was given 1,000 rand for bibles in Ovumbundu, I could spend 1,000 rand on bibles in Ovumbundu. And 1,000 rand back then could buy 50 bibles. No, more than that. Well, 500 bibles, yeah. I could buy 500 bibles because there were two rand each. And that's including in Chechewa, which today is 350 rand. It was more like 380 rand a Chechewa bible. I don't know why Chechewa is so expensive. But for this, OK, tracts are great, but now we are needing to go to designate Bibles in these different languages. This comes from the Bible Society, but they're expensive. So roughly now it's 200 Rand per Bible in Afrikaans, about 200 Rand for a Bible in Xhosa or Zulu, and then it goes into the many hundreds more if you're talking about Shona. and Jocheba for some reason. But these are like gold. This is very, very precious and valuable. So because of people designating funds for indigenous African languages, we can also sometimes buy hundreds of Bibles in different languages that we can entrust to the best missions we know of in those areas to ensure they get to people who most need it, most appreciate it, will read and apply and share. And so Saswati, Shawna, Many different great languages we are able to entrust. And this is another one of our kitties inspecting our wares. Indigenous African language Bibles, we call it Special Projects. If you ever know people who want to invest, because the best missionary is the Bible in the indigenous language, in the mother tongue. We must let the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom. teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. So these are the challenges. And when you think of countries in great need like Zimbabwe, there's another way to help them as well. We call it boxes with love. We put together boxes, and we do a big shopping spree, and we get things that people really want and need that they're short of in Zimbabwe, where they've suffered for so long. And so we pack a box with about 35 different items, and everything from teas and sweets to peanuts and biscuits and chocolate soup, different from sugar and rice. And then gospel literature put in. And each of these boxes gets delivered to a prisoner, a pensioner, or a pastor in need, people who are destitute. And so these boxes with love are delivered in Zimbabwe. And for many years, since 1982, this has been one of our projects, boxes with love, ensuring that people in Zimbabwe get practical love and action, encouragement. And many of these pensioners say to us, this is all we've got to live on, literally. And some of these people make these boxes eke out for months. They're so destitute, it makes a big difference. So this is another way of helping, that we're not only helping the people with literature, but we're helping the people with some of the necessities of life in a country where they've been so starved and oppressed for so long. So Boxers with Love is a project where we quickly assemble, and again, It's amazing what you can do with a dedicated team and you've got a system and we lay it out. Sometimes missions come to us for literature. Open doors here loading up with eight tons of Bible study materials all to go to Zimbabwe. So sometimes the literature is distributed by people coming to collect and they're off on their way to Zimbabwe. And other times we need a forklift and people come and we need to load and we're going to load them with tons of pre-palatized and it's got to be literature wrapped up in plastic too because sometimes these are flatbed trucks that might be in danger of rain and damp. So, you see stores can sometimes be empty. But that's because the pallets are all outside ready to be picked up. And on this occasion, 32 tons of gospel literature distributed in one go. A flatbed truck came and we had to start late at night getting things ready and early in the morning loading and sometimes loading in the rain. when this is a lot of coordination and preparation to be sure that these people get their 32 tonnes and you've got to start very early in the morning. I think this is something like four or five where you're starting to load because the traffic's going to get too much by the time you get to seven to be able to continue to have a forklift going out into the main road then loading this up. But this is the kind of logistical preparations Literature of Africa was born for, to be able to supply the ministry. And this was going up to Zambia, if I'm not mistaken. Zambians in Zimbabwe are the main recipients of a lot of this literature. And you can see the finished product all ready to roll. But most of the time, it's going out with our teams over the years, here from Livingston House, a four-wheel drive with a trailer, could get kitted out, head across the deserts, across Africa, all these different countries that you've been able to minister in, Tanzania, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, Malawi, going on roads that have got littered, armored cars, tanks that have been destroyed. It improves your prayer life when you go in a soft-skinned vehicle on areas where the pods Armored cars have been destroyed. And equipping evangelists in remote villages with World Missionary Press gospel booklets, Bibles, distributing tracts on the streets. It's so important to always have gospel liturgy, to be able to sow gospel seed and to make an impact. World Missionary Press is the best in many ways, that we can equip the people with what they need. These Broadway and Narrow Way posts are super popular. I mean, they're a Bible study right there that can be on the wall reminding people on a daily basis. And you should always be able to see where Christians have been, that there's a line of people behind reading great gospel literature. And these are the green ones, How to Know God, are designed for reaching Muslims. Way to God is designed for children mostly. Trick publications are always super popular. And these are effective. When people want a Bible, I normally require them to give us a memory verse or the Ten Commandments. And so they're still showing their earnestness to, because there's too many people and not enough Bibles. So normally we require them to have Bible memory verses. And teachers, in this case Tanzania, some of the in-house books like Biblical Principles to Africa, we started to produce our own books like this for our outreachers. So every year, we'd do pastor seminars, and we'd want a book we could donate. So the first one, I think, was Biblical Principles to Africa. Then it was Putting Feet to Your Faith. And this is the French translation being distributed in the Congo. John and Romans in French being distributed in the Congo. This is in the Congo and in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Sudan, tremendous need, hunger for literature, and Reformation Study Bibles are probably the most valuable Bibles we've got here. We were entrusted with 2,200 Reformation Study Bibles by a good friend, R.C. Sproul. in the lead up to the Reformation, 500. And we distributed these throughout Africa. In many cases, people had to pass the Bible exam or recite 10 commands, something like that. Putting feet to your faith was super popular as well. We've donated whole libraries to some Bible cultures in the field. This is in Petunica, Covenant College up in Zambia. And Excellence Christian Academy in Zambia, Kabwe. The Zambian government actually asked us for Biblical Principles for Africa books. They asked us to write them. A man who is in prison with me, General Godfrey Mianda, who is vice president. I gave him a whole lot of great books, Biblical Economics and so on. He said, don't you have a small book that summarizes all of these? So that was my challenge. I wrote Biblical Principles for Africa for the Zambian government, and they ordered hundreds. And here I am delivering them to parliaments in Lusaka. In Sudan and in the Muslim Middle East, we've distributed tons of Bibles. In fact, I can say we've distributed about 650,000 Bibles, New Testament, Christian books, into Sudan in many languages, 27 languages. Where the churches are being bombed and burned, the Christians meeting under the tree, where the slave traders used to gather their people up. putting wheels under the wood, getting designations to sponsor bicycles for evangelists and pastors who might have four or five congregations to care for. And here are chaplains being equipped. Bibles being smuggled into the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, going in chartered aircraft, behind enemy lines where it's illegal. And each aircraft can deliver about a ton of Bibles. This is our biggest project ever. Here, there's three tons. And each Bible is one kilogram. So this is three tons of Bibles delivered to a church that will not die in Nui. The church has been destroyed three times. Here's chaplains being equipped with Bibles and books. and bicycles. Getting these barbels across flooded rivers requires making sure they're plasticized. You see much of our literature comes in plastic blocks because we encourage our printers to do that, that we can ensure that they reach the field undamaged for dirt or damp. And we've even had to build bridges across, blown-up bridges, to ensure that the barbels can get across to the people who most need it. The Bible in Moro was a big project. We got 10,000 printed. In Singapore, by the way, you can print Bibles in Singapore for a lot cheaper than you can in Africa. So it's a strange thing. I told the Kenyan printers, I'd like to give you the job, but you charge me five times more than Singapore does for the Bibles. And that covers even the transportation to get to Mombasa. And so many of these Bibles we've taken to Sudan were actually printed in Singapore, sometimes Taiwan, sometimes South Korea. But the Asians print cheaper and better and a lot quicker than we can get done over here, and that's shocking. I prefer to give the job to a local printer, but somehow when it comes to printing, they can do a better job. Now, tons smuggled behind enemy lines into Nuba Mountains off Sudan. These are the Bibles in Mora and Arabic. And then film evangelism, we're going to deal with later, but getting Bibles as textbooks into schools. Many schools, they don't have textbooks, and so we've given them Bibles, and they use the Bibles as textbooks. We've heard of schools in Swaziland who are using the Jesus Messiah book in Saswati as textbooks in their schools. And so there's even a study guide for teachers who want to use those to guide. This is a pastor in Sudan who passed the Bible exam, got a Reformation Study Bible for having the best marks. We often make them a prize to people who want to receive such a great study Bible.