Frontline Fellowship
  • Home
  • The Mission
    • About
    • Priority Projects >
      • Projects
    • Literature4Africa Online
    • Gospel Defence League
    • Africa Christian Network
    • Boxes with Love
    • Prayer Maps
    • In Memorium
  • Evangelising Extremists
  • Newsletters
    • Frontline News
    • Prayer & Praise Updates
    • Email Articles
    • Missionary Reports
  • Resources
    • Digital Resources
    • Video & Audio Gallery >
      • Audio Gallery
      • Frontline on Youtube
      • Frontline on Vimeo
    • Articles >
      • Articles
      • News
      • Africa
      • Animals
      • Animism
      • Bible Teaching
      • Christmas
      • Family
      • Gun Control & Self Defense
      • History
      • Islam
      • Missions
      • Persecution
      • Political & Social Issues
      • War and Terrorism
      • Film Reviews
    • Articles in other Languages >
      • Afrikaans
      • German
      • French
      • Danish
      • Chinese
      • Russian
      • Chichewa
      • Czech
    • Bible Studies
    • Answers to Critical Questions
    • Skeptics Questions Answered
    • Books published by Dr Peter Hammond
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • BWS & GCC
  • Books in USA

"FREE BIBLES" SOLD IN RUSSIA

11/4/2012

0 Comments

 
Volume 3 - 1989
The pastor and deacon of the independent registered Baptist church in Brest, on the Soviet-Polish border, have sent an open letter to the Christians in the West, expressing their concern at the ways in which the registered All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists is using funds raised from the sale of Bibles. The AUCECB receives 30 rubles for each Bible, and local leaders charge an additional 3-10 rubles to cover expenses in bringing the Bibles from Moscow.
The Brest church leaders are very grateful to Western Christians for taking the opportunities available to send Bibles to the churches in the USSR, and report that they are “bearing fruit to God’s glory.”
​

They are grieved, however, that the AUCECB is selling Bibles it received free of charge and that little of the money received in this way is used for Christian work. For example, 750 000 rubles were sent to Communist Nicaragua in 1986 via the Soviet Peace Fund. Challenged on this, AUCECB leaders claim they needed the money from selling Bibles to pay for visits by foreign guests.

The Brest church leaders suggest that Western Christians should pray for wisdom in seeking new channels, should send literature direct to local churches, and should ask the AUCECB for an explanation of this matter.

Researchers polling Russian Orthodox and Baptist believers in the Soviet Union claim Christians have little expectation that new Bible imports will be affordable and available to the membership at large.

Since the 1920’s, less than 700000 Bibles and New Testaments have been legally printed or imported in the Soviet Union. The Russian Orthodox Church numbers over fifty-million members, and there are several million Catholics, Baptists, Pentecostals, Lutherans and Methodists in the USSR. A Bible on the black market can cost up to 100 rubles, or an average two-week salary, due to the hunger for God’s Word.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    About the Director

    More Articles

    All
    43 YEARS AGO – CONVERSION TO CHRIST
    BACK TO THE BIBLE FOR REFORMATION AND REVIVAL
    BACK TO THE BIBLE MPUMALANGA MISSION
    BIBLES AND BOOKS TO SUDAN WITH LOVE
    BIBLES FOR AFRICA
    DECEMBER 2006 HAMMOND FAMILY UPDATE
    DECEMBER 2014 HAMMOND FAMILY UPDATE
    EQUIPPING AND EMPOWERING EVANGELISTS
    GOD'S WORD ABOVE ALL THINGS
    JULY 2014 HAMMOND FAMILY UPDATE
    LET THE EARTH HEAR HIS VOICE
    LET THE WHOLE EARTH HEAR HIS VOICE
    Misc
    Missions To Europe
    MISSIONS TO MPUMALANGA 2018
    Missions To USA
    NEWS UPDATES FROM THE FRONTLINE
    OCTOBER 2015 HAMMOND FAMILY UPDATE
    PRAYER ALERT FOR FRIENDS OF THE MISSION
    PUTTING FEET TO OUR FAITH
    ​WINNING AFRICA FOR CHRIST

    Archives

    May 2022
    November 2021
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    November 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    October 2016
    August 2016
    October 2015
    May 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    October 2013
    June 2013
    June 2012
    April 2012
    November 2006

    RSS Feed

"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
”
 Matthew 28: 18-20
Picture

P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town, South Africa

Tel:  +27 (0)21 689 4480 
Email: [email protected]
  • Home
  • The Mission
    • About
    • Priority Projects >
      • Projects
    • Literature4Africa Online
    • Gospel Defence League
    • Africa Christian Network
    • Boxes with Love
    • Prayer Maps
    • In Memorium
  • Evangelising Extremists
  • Newsletters
    • Frontline News
    • Prayer & Praise Updates
    • Email Articles
    • Missionary Reports
  • Resources
    • Digital Resources
    • Video & Audio Gallery >
      • Audio Gallery
      • Frontline on Youtube
      • Frontline on Vimeo
    • Articles >
      • Articles
      • News
      • Africa
      • Animals
      • Animism
      • Bible Teaching
      • Christmas
      • Family
      • Gun Control & Self Defense
      • History
      • Islam
      • Missions
      • Persecution
      • Political & Social Issues
      • War and Terrorism
      • Film Reviews
    • Articles in other Languages >
      • Afrikaans
      • German
      • French
      • Danish
      • Chinese
      • Russian
      • Chichewa
      • Czech
    • Bible Studies
    • Answers to Critical Questions
    • Skeptics Questions Answered
    • Books published by Dr Peter Hammond
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • BWS & GCC
  • Books in USA