Bible Distribution in the Dominican Republic

Fred Clark is part of the family at Stafford Crossing. He is currently serving with Gideons International in the Dominican Republic. Here is an update.

9 of us from around the world (8 from the USA and 1 from Australia) arrived in the Dominican Republic on Saturday Nov 3rd with the intention of putting God’s word into the hands of 150,000 people.  Our first official act as a group was to get on our knees and pray for the success of the  mission. 

After pray each of us was assigned to a team of local Gideons. One to be our driver, one to be our interpreter and others to help with distributions. On Sunday morning, we were each assigned to a church where we would share what God was doing through the Gideons. This was the Church I was assigned to. 

Carlos, my driver is on the left with his wife and Abib, my translator is on the right with his wife. Both Wives are members of the Gideon Auxiliary. 

Early Monday our team went to Hotels to place or replace Bibles. The team also went to jails and hospitals. By the end of the day we had visited 8 Hotels, 2 hospitals and 2 jails. We placed 2423 bibles in hotels and placed 338 New Testaments in the hands of nurses, patients, police, prisoners and hotel staff. 

Today started early. Up at 5, praying at 5:30 and on our way to the 100,000 student campus of the University of Santo Domingo. Our 6 teams were strategically located around the outskirts of the Campus and with the help of the locals 30,000 testaments were individually placed into the hands of students by noon. The distribution continues got 7 more hours. I’m anticipating the final total will be over 50,000!!!!

I am really looking forward to tomorrow because we will be going to public schools to place God’s word into the hands of the youth of Santo Domingo. 

Fred Clark