Declutter your dusty bookshelves by sending your unused books to Christians worldwide with very little resources.
USA (MNN) ― In the U..S, the average household has eight or nine Bibles lying around their house, either sitting on a bedside table in a pile of other books or sitting on a shelf covered in dust. In addition to this excess of Bibles, Christian households also have shelves and shelves of Christian literature, some read once but many left untouched.
Outside the U..S in developing countries, English-speaking believers may have one Bible per congregation or nothing at all. This makes the pastor's role of crafting sermons even more difficult.
Every month, Christian Resources International receives requests from many of these Christians, asking for Bibles and other Christian literature.
CRI does what they can. However, their Executive Director Fred Palmerton, said, "We are completely unable to answer all of those needs. So we developed a program where people can respond to those requests from their own living room through a program called Bare Your Bookshelf."
When CRI receives requests from Christians around the world, they send a list of the desired materials to interested individuals across the U.S. These partners then gather up the books, either from their own collection or from a local bookstore, and then ship the books out according to instructions CRI sends with the requests.
To send out the books, shipping is under $14.
"We receive numerous applications from people across America to fill some of these needs, but the need is far greater than the response," Palmerton said. CRI therefore needs your help to continue to fill these requests.
To get started, you do not even have to leave your home: "It's pretty exciting to be able to be a missionary from your own home," Palmerton said. Plus, CRI has no way of notifying every Christian who sends in a request for resources. So when you fill the request, people are pleasantly surprised to receive a package of all the materials they asked for.
Click here to get started today and provide Christians across the world with tools to help them grow in their faith and share Christ with others around them.
