Coordinator Luke Canup has announced the 3rd Annual Christian Literature Drive. Partnering with Love Packages, a ministry whose mission is to glorify God through the distribution of the Word of God to hungry hearts throughout the world, the drive seeks to collect used Christian literature and Bibles.
Drive organizers ask local churches and their members to collect used Christian literature and Bibles for Love Packages. The materials will be shipped to ministries in many poor countries and distributed freely to thousands of churches overseas. “These are materials that would have normally been collecting dust on shelves or thrown away,” says Canup. “Instead, they can be used to reach souls for Christ, encourage and build up the Church, and train leaders to shine the light in dark places.”
Canup shares that, since the beginning of Love Packages in 1975, over 15,000 tons of literature have been sent overseas. Thousands of people have been saved, healed, and delivered as a result of this mission. Pastors and Sunday school teachers for the first time have materials to study and teach from.
Love Packages currently sends 20- foot containers to port cities around the world. These locations act as distribution points and have the capability to distribute these materials to thousands of churches overseas.
“The vision is simple. We want to see all of our excess, the materials that are being wasted, placed on the mission fields of the world,” Canup says.
In their first year, the local group collected over 10,000 pounds of literature and last year they collected over 13,000 pounds. Those materials have the potential to touch over 900,000 lives!
Here is how you can help:
1. Collect literature and Bibles. START NOW! Place collection points around your church. What kinds of materials do we send overseas?
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- Bibles (new or used): All Bibles, New Testaments, Bible portions, Individual Gospel booklets
- Tracts: All tracts
- Reference Books: dictionaries, Bible dictionaries, concordances, commentaries, etc.
- Books & Paperbacks: All Christian books – adult or children, non-fiction. We’re not interested in fiction, romance novels, etc.
- Magazines: Any magazine from a Christian publisher, e.g. Discipleship Journal, Decision, Voice, Aglow, Christ for the Nations, Pentecostal Evangel, Message of the Cross, Leadership, Bread for the Children, etc. We can’t use Guideposts or Missions Magazine.
- Sunday School Supplies: We accept adult quarterlies and all teacher manuals in any amount from all publishers. We accept children’s quarterlies if you have the teacher’s manual and full student manuals. These can have writing and marking in them. Please DO NOT SEND any handiwork, craft, or busy work papers.
- Daily Devotionals: Upper Room, Daily Bread, In Touch, etc.
- CD’s, DVD’s, BluRay’s: music, movies, teaching from well-known speakers (Billy Graham, Swindoll, etc.) We can no longer accept VHS or cassette tapes.
- Puppets, Noah’s Ark, Bible games, Nativity sets, biblical puzzles: Most anything that helps to present the gospel, especially to children.
- Drop off donations at Hills Crossing Baptist Church in Clarkesville on Saturday, November 14th, from 9 am to 12 pm.
- If you can’t make it out on the day of the drive, you can drop off materials during the weekdays from Nov. 2nd to Nov. 11th at Holcomb’s Office Supply & Christian Products in Cornelia, GA.
- Volunteer to work at the Literature Drive: Contact Luke Canup at 706-716-0031 or [email protected].
- Donate to help cover shipping costs. The average cost to ship each container overseas is $4200.
- Commit to pray for the Love Packages ministry and its staff. Visit www.lovepackages.org for more information on the ministry.
