International (MNN) ― Love Packages' Steve Schmidt says their ministry is on target to break records this year. Right now, they're averaging about 20 tons a week of literature being sent out. "This morning, we shipped 20 tons out to Bucharest, Romania. Last week, we shipped 20 tons to Gospel Literature Distribution in cooperation with World Missionary Press. We shipped 20 tons to Campus Crusade for Christ in Zambia. Next week, we're shipping 20 tons to Liberia to Every Home For Christ."
Statistics show that every piece of literature will be read by an average of 20 people. Each container has at least 1 million pieces, so the potential is to reach 20 million every time the ministry sends a container.
Throughout the United States, Schmidt says there are people with extra literature, and they didn't know what to do with it. Love Packages can put that literature in the hands of people who are hungry for the Word of God.
Schmidt says God has been blessing with enough funding to cover their shipping costs. A 20-ton container costs between $3000 to $9000 to send. The literature that is shipped in mail bags costs $1 per pound. When expenses are accounted for, the cost to ship a single piece of literature costs less than a dime per pound.
That money comes in on faith promises. Explains Schmidt, "God promises that His Word will not return
unto Him void, but it will accomplish the thing that He's purposed in His own
heart to do. We see people who have no other way of knowing about the Gospel,
who just get a booklet here, a Sunday School item there, and their lives are being
changed." Click here if you can help.
