Nepal, a country of over 30 million people, is mostly Hindu, with about 9 percent Buddhist. Christianity is a minor religion there, with a reported 380,000 adherents. This represents about 1.4 percent of the entire population.  Nepali is the main language, but there are well over 100 languages in use as ‘mother tongue’ languages. BFC has many of the languages spoken in Nepal.  In Nepal, children under 14 make up almost 40% of the population. Children’s ministries in Nepal use Bible for Children coloring books to reach out to the children.  The photograph below shows children in Nepal coloring the BFC Bible stories. (The children’s faces are blurred in the picture for security reasons.)

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Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world;

Red, brown, yellow, black and white

All are precious in His sight,

Jesus loves the little children of the world.

MissionFest Manitoba, 2022

‍MissionFest is back, and Bible for Children will be there!  It will be interesting to see the turnout compared to when it was in the middle of winter.  Our BFC focus this year will be to recruit volunteers to help in many areas of Bible for Children.  We will be encouraging people to “Be a foreign missionary right in your own home”. This is doable for any believer who has a desire to help. BFC will be offering specific training for each task and ‘always-available’ on-going support for those who sign up to help.

Please pray for God’s guidance concerning your personal response to this volunteer campaign. Also, please pray that (working from their own home) a number of folk will join with us in the great task of bringing Jesus to the children of the world.  And,  please visit us at booth H7.

Location: Church of the Rock

Dates: April 29th to May 1st

      www.missionfestmanitoba.org

‍One way to celebrate Easter

Look back with loving gratitude.

Look forward with joyful expectancy.

Look around with a responsive heart.

Mail from Around the World 

Taiwan - Do you have Chinese Bible?  I am a teacher, I am intending to teach my students about Jesus and gospel, thank you so much.  Celine

Michigan - To learn Japanese with your stories, I import them to a web program called LingQ. The stories I have stored on LingQ are currently Private, but I am interested in sharing them with others to use for learning Japanese.  Would you approve of this reuse of your content?  Nick

Chile - Good evening. I am in charge of the Sunday school of a mission that my church has and I was looking for material that I used when I was little, which is the Mailbox Club that today I could find on your website. I wanted to know if you are still doing the club as I found the first lesson on the website and intend to print it out to use at church for the kids who are going.  Waiting for an answer.  Tomás

FaceBook from Australia - Someone recently sent us the link to your website and asked if we would post it on our group. We approved the post and we took the time to watch one of your children's stories. It was a blessing for us. Would you please give me permission to use some of your stories for children on my website? Thank you so much for the work you are doing to help children come to know Jesus. Blessings to you and the team.   Ray

Prayer & Praise

Pray for the children and churches of Nepal. God has placed this country on our hearts at Bible For Children. We have first-hand reports of how BFC materials are being used. The needs there are great—our God is infinitely greater.

Praise God for the 453 languages He has provided in a way no human being could. We rejoice in the great outreach yet crave more and more impact on the world’s children. We weep for the precious people of Eastern Europe and cry to God that He will bring good out of the chaos and evil. 

Please also pray that BFC outreach will be strengthened and helped by the addition of volunteer enlistment at the upcoming Mission Fest. 

Praise God, the God of all comfort, and the God Who uses ordinary people like us in His great loving Gospel outreach.

‍Heart to Heart

After 3 years, my wife and I have been able to drive south to Florida.  I truly get a rest and renewal during our time here.  And there are a few retired missionaries we visit for mutual encouragement.

As I write, we are at a Christian camp in St. Petersburg, which provides spiritual refreshment.  On the ministry side, while here I gave a few hundred Bible stories to a Bible booth at the Red Barn flea market in Bradenton, where thousands of people visit during the year.  Please pray that many children (and adults) will come to know the Saviour through these outreaches.

We plan to visit dear friends on our way home. They have medical problems, and we hope to be an encouragement to them.

Our challenges are minor compared to those faced by Ukrainians.  We have just uploaded a Ukrainian Easter video Bible story to YouTube (also one in Russian), in hopes it could provide hope in Jesus for some caught in this tragic war. My father’s family immigrated to Canada from Ukraine in 1900, so I don’t know any relatives there. But let us join together in prayer for the Ukraine, and also for Russia. 

No one wins in this world’s wars except our spiritual enemy, Satan. BFC continues the effort to make the love of God in Christ known to the world’s children.  Thank you, dear friends, for your prayers that support BFC.   Greg