TBS News Items
04 Jul 2008
I am an Army Chaplain serving in Iraq. Several of my soldiers have asked me for the Authorised Version of the Bible rather than the modern translation that we have on operations.
I am told that you have a version available with a camouflage cover (soldiers like this). Is this in fact the case, and if so could I have some?
Unfortunately I have no access to funds on tour but if you can help me at all I and my soldiers would be extremely grateful. Operational tours are a time when even those who would not normally read the Scriptures do, so it’s a great opportunity to get the soldiers in touch with the Bible and with God.
We, of course, are glad to be able to send the requested Bibles!
04 Jun 2008
Prisoners
'I was in prison, and ye came unto me' (Matthew 25.36)
We get numerous requests for Scriptures from prison chaplains and individual prisoners every month.
One chaplain said:
Your larger version Bibles have proved enormously popular with the prisoners! I know I always seem to be asking, but are you able to send me any more of the larger ones, please? What I am noticing is that the men bring the larger Bibles with them to the chapel services and are keen to look up the passage as it is read. One of our prisoners, V--, is actually quoting from the Psalms! If you knew him as we do you would know what good news that is. He loves his larger version Bible and reads from it every day. He is one of those with less than good reading and writing skills and the larger font seems to make it easier for them to read the Word. (06 June 2008)
09 May 2008
Four Hundred Years
In celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the English Authorised (King James) Version of the Bible in 2011, the Society is planning a series of commemorative lectures throughout the British Isles. Subjects will include the history of the English Bible before 1611, King James and Hampton Court, a Protestant Bible for all people, and the Authorised Version's relevance in a multicultural society. Details will be provided as they become available.
We would appreciate your prayers as we seek the Lord's guidance in this endeavour.
21 Apr 2008
Hungarian Calendars
Thank you for the additional grant of 280 Hungarian Calendars.
I am most grateful for them. Amid much prayers I stamped each and every page (which means more than 3000 stamps) with the address and telephone number of our church and distributed them in three prominent places Hungarians crowd each day: The Hungarian Consulate, a Hungarian Lettings Agent and a Hungarian Bakery. They were not only well received by the person in charge but numerous have already been taken during the couple of minutes I spent at each place. I trust that the Lord will bless them to the souls of those who put on their walls in their homes and also those who are thirsty for the Word of God will find their way to our church through them.
Calendars for Romania
Dear Friends in Christ. We greet you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In your ministry doing around the world, we also wish you a lot of blessings from our God. He knows your efforts in mission and evangelism ministries and we are sure one day you will find how much He appreciated this work which done for His glory.
We thank you so much for your support. Our charity and missionary society received from your society 800 Romanian Words of Life Calendar and we are so delighted because we could use it in our missionary and evangelism efforts here in our country. Many people asked us about these calendars and we can use it to share our Lord Jesus Christ gospel for their salvation. Praise the Lord for this useful tool we can use in our evangelism ministry.
Bibles for distribution in Ethiopia
Thank you very much for your greatest support for my evangelical mission in providing me with your grant of 200 copies of the Holy Bible. Your grant of the Holy Bible in seven parcels is safely received on February 6 2008.
Your grant is really of great help for the spiritual growth of my 200 adult and children students. I am now distributing the Bibles for these devoted students in my parish. Each of them is getting his/her personal copy of the Bible for free. The spirits of these students are now highly motivated to study the Holy Bible and understand the divine revelation and message from Almighty. All of my students are expressing their gratefulness for you and your esteemed association.
Street evangelism in Brazil
Thank you for the literature you sent me, I am extremely grateful for it. With this literature I have reached 700 homes and also people in the street.
Something surprising always happens when I am evangelising. Once I heard a commotion in the street. It turned out that a young woman who, tired of life and jobless, had stepped out in front of a car, I was able to help her and the next time I saw her, on market day, I was able to talk to her about Jesus. She has now received the freedom that God gives us and we pray together now.
Prison ministry
Next Saturday, we have the opportunity at Prison in Mallorca to preach the Gospel of Grace in Christ our loved Lord and Saviour and will distribute the English St John’s Gospel to the English – speaking inmates and the other languages too: French, Portuguese, Russian etc.
Some prisoners write letters with questions about the Word of God, and others are doing Bible correspondence courses. I have the precious opportunity and the pleasure of answering them with replies from the Holy Scriptures and of affirming them in the faith of Christ and encouraging them as the prison is a very bad place for everybody, but there also we can show the love and grace of God.
Guyana
Warmest greetings in Jesus’ name. Thanks very much for the 2008 Calendars and the Bibles which you have so kindly sent. I received the 3000 calendars and the 20 Bibles safely and promptly.
You would be glad to know that I have distributed all the Calendars and Bibles prayerfully and free of charge to people who needed them the most. The Bibles were given to Indian converts and the Calendars were given to homes throughout Guyana.
The people were glad for the literature. They have started to read and study them.
I cannot thank you enough for your help in this area. May the Lord richly bless you.
India
Thanks for your grant of pocket Bible. I am a Hindu and have started reading Bible as per your reading schedule.
Thanks again for your grant of Bible.
Sri Lanka
I have been reading your “Golden Thoughts” AD 2000 daily. Presently this precious Daily Reading is all worn out. Could you please send by mail a fresh copy of this valuable document.
Ukraine
Please receive warm greetings from brothers and sisters in Christ in churches of Choodniv, L’oobar, Romaniv and Zhytomyr districts.
We are very thankful to our Lord for the gracious gift of calendars we received from you in 2006. In 2007 God blessed us far more through you. Thank you very much! We received 1500 calendars for 2008 in Russian, 3000 calendars in Ukrainian and 1000 golden thoughts in Russian safely from your organization. Together with you we really make a big evangelistic effort visiting more than 4000 families and giving them out calendars and golden thoughts. We believe these calendars and golden thoughts will be a good everyday sermon of witnessing to some and for salvation of others.
Poland
We want to thank you so very much for sending the calendars. We distributed every calendar. The calendars were so well received; often people would refuse the tracts we brought would take the calendar. They were given to people, including many families, and many very elderly people, in the area. To know that the words of God, which is so scarcely out in the public arena in Poland, will be in those homes and those words may be used of our Lord to draw individuals unto Himself, gives us great joy, and we know it also gives you the same.
15 Feb 2008
News from Hungary
Thank you for the additional grant of 280 Hungarian Calendars. I am most grateful for them. Amid much prayers I stamped each and every page (which means more than 3000 stamps) with the address and telephone number of our church and distributed them in three prominent places where Hungarians crowd each day: The Hungarian Consulate, a Hungarian lettings agent and a Hungarian bakery. They were not only well received by the person in charge but numerous have already been taken during the couple of minutes I spent at each place. I trust that the Lord will bless them to the souls of those who put on their walls in their homes and also those who are thirsty for the Word of God will find their way to our church through them.
29 Jan 2008
News from Kenya
A widow, C--, has just arrived with a letter from the refugee Kenyans staying at the ‘camp’ at the police station upcountry--419 of them now. They paid her way to come back to get more Bibles. They are wild to get them!
C-- was the only one praying night after night; ‘Hey, keep quiet, we don't want prayers here. Where was God when we suffered?’ they cried all night. Now the other day she went back with twenty Bibles, and the demand is wild. Even the police want them. She said, ‘You can't believe the change, everybody is singing, praying, believing. They say, "Now we know, God is there!"’ C-- kept one for herself, but an old mama told her, ‘Oh no, let me keep this one. Maybe you will not get any more, let this one be mine, please!’ She does not know English, but she had a girl with her who will read/translate for her. So C-- does not have her own! The people gave her bus fare to Nairobi and back. Even police helped with the fare.
12 Nov 2007
From a Chaplain to a UK prison
Thank you for sending us the latest batch of Bibles. In a prison like ours with probably one of the highest turnover of inmates in the whole of the UK, the request for Bibles is unquenchable! When they feel lonely, or scared, they turn to the ONLY One they can trust and will try and reach Him through His Word. Fresh hope is instilled in them and every Bible we give out goes out of our office with a blessing to bring someone to start a journey from a life of crime to a life in Christ.
From a school in the UK...
I am writing to thank you very much indeed for donating the Bibles to our final year leavers. The children are thrilled with their new Bibles and are very proud of them.
...and from a grateful parent
I would like to thank you for the Bible you gave to my daughter at school today. We are Christians and love the Lord and try to follow his way of living. She has a very basic child's Bible but this Bible is even better. The Bible will teach her all about God and how to stay faithful. I hope she will carry on loving God for the rest of her life.
10 Oct 2007
From a missionary amongst the Jews
We have just received an additional five hundred complete Hebrew Bibles from our good friends at the Trinitarian Bible Society. An individual believer gave a very generous financial gift which covered the cost of sending these Bibles to us for Israelis and Rabbis. Please pray the LORD will guide in their faithful and fruitful distribution. The Holy Scriptures alone are sufficient to make Jewish hearts wise unto salvation through faith which is in The Risen Messiah Jesus.
From a prisoner in Florida, USA
You sent me a sample issue of your magazine, and I was not only blessed by it, but I learned a lot. Could I please be placed on your mailing list, I would love to receive your magazine. That issue you sent as a sample I shared it with many of my Christian brothers here! Your brother in Christ...
From a Mission organisation in the UK working among servicemen
Thanks for sending us the sample Bible. I was delighted with the quality of the plastic camouflaged cover. This makes it durable when carried by the soldiers and the size is important as it can be carried safely in a pocket. In the past the Bible and New Testament had been considered part of their kit but this is less so today. A lot of soldiers do keep their Bibles on leaving as most of their other kit is disposed of.
We are very grateful for your offer and would be pleased to have copies of your Bible for use in our centres. Thank you for supporting Christian witness to the military community especially at this particular time when they are facing such terrible challenges.
28 Apr 2007
Distribution of the Society's Scriptures at UK Fairs:
Your colouring books have been in great demand, especially from the Gypsy children at the Horse Fair and the Steam Fair. They are still very popular among parents who come to my market stall. Giving colouring books to a gypsy grandmother for her grandchildren has resulted in a longstanding friendship.
Work among seamen, Scotland:
I am happy to say that I continue to serve the Lord as a Christian visitor on board the ships of the world that come into the docks. Having boarded more than 1000 ships [over the past 14 years] I have found that it is a floating mission field on my doorstep, enabling me to spread God's word throughout the world.
The vast majority of the seamen I encounter are very open to the Gospel and enthusiastically take what I offer them. The Trinitarian Bible Society also supplies me with much of my literature at very generous discounts.
Only three weeks ago I was on board a large ship with a crew of 26 Chinese and 6 Polish seamen. They showed much interest in the Christian Literature. I always encourage them to take extra for their mothers and fathers and other relatives and friends. If a ship is in docks on a Sunday evening, I give seamen an invitation to a Gospel meeting and hospitality afterwards at home. Young men, and some young women, from many nations, have come to our church.
As we look back over the past years, our hearts rise in praise and thanks to the Lord.
05 Mar 2007
Outreach in Leicester, England.
The Lord laid on my heart as to the schools nearby, so some time ago I started to take [calendars] to them. I asked how many classrooms each school had and gave one for each classroom. They were well received and this last year at the end of the year when I was giving them out one school said that they were waiting to see if I was coming around this year. There are thirteen schools that I take them to. I trust that you may pray for this work and pass it on that others may consider doing work like this. It is good to get the Word of God into schools for the young people to see and read it. Also I take the calendars to four old people's homes nearby and they are very thankful them.
Calendar distribution in Romania.
We are thankful to the Lord and to you for the Calendars that we received this year again. We used these Calendars in many ways. We gave to people, who visited our evangelistic meetings. All the church members here in Budapest gave calendars to their relatives and their acquaintances. This year we tried to be more courageous and gave many calendars for unknown people. For example while I paid some bills at the post office, I gave calendars to the employees there. They were very surprised. Though the people in Budapest are not accustomed to receive gifts from unknown people, they were happy about this opportunity.
The calendars are good tools also to keep contacts with those people whom we meet rarely. I gave calendars to my neighbours, to the employees of a printing company where we print our tracts. I gave calendars to men with whom I play football and so on.
One of our church members, here in Budapest, works in a carwash. So, he gave many calendars to his clients. This was also a good witness from him to those persons whom he met.
Thank you for your help in sending every year these calendars, may the Lord bless you, and may the Lord use these calendars to His glory and to the salvation of many.
14 Feb 2007
The Society is pleased to announce the publication of the following:
Maltese Bible (Il-Bibbja Mqaddsa) ISBN 978-1-86228-283-4
Product Code MALTB Price £5.50
This is a reprint of the Version first published in 1980. This edition is translated from the Authorised Version in comparison with several other translations such as the Italian Diodati Bible.
Maori Gospel of John (KO TE RONGO PAI A HOANI) and Maori/English Diglot Gospel of John
These are a revision of that found in the 1868 Edition of the Maori Bible. These revisions are based upon the Textus Receptus Greek New Testament.
Product Code John's Gospel MAJN. Price (only available from our New Zealand Branch) NZ$2.00
Product Code John/English Diglot MAEJN. Price £1.50 (NZ$2.50).
24 Jan 2007
Letter of appreciation from Chester:
“The cards relating to the birth of the Saviour have been a joy to send to friends and neighbours as well as the calendars for the furtherance of the gospel. May TBS continue to be a blessing in 2007 as it has been over past years.”
2007 Diary:
“A friend offered me one of your diaries, it was such a pleasant surprise. They are so useful, so nicely presented, and with the A.V. text for each day – a really good thing to have. I just felt it necessary to thank you.”
The Society still has a few 2007 diaries available.
12 Dec 2006
Letter of thanks from India:
Very warm greetings to you in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
This is to express heartfelt and gratitude to you for sending us a very precious gift of Greek New Testaments which were immensely required by the students of this seminary. The seminary offers the Bachelor of Theology course in the Marathi Language. Our students study both the Greek and Hebrew language. Therefore these Greek New Testaments will be greatly useful to them, to read the Word of God in original language.
Therefore we are very happy that your gift has come here at the right time. Please accept our thanks for the concern which you showed for us.
Calendars destined for Zimbabwe:
Once again thank you very much for these Golden Thoughts Calendars for 2007. Many of these I mail to suffering ones in Zimbabwe where, as you know, my dear husband who is now with the Lord and I had the joy of serving the Lord for over 50 years. With all the extreme hardships and difficulties they are going through in that country, their increased hunger for His Word made these daily Golden Thoughts from the Lord a real blessing and encouragement to them. Their expressed gratitude for these calendars warms one's heart.
Others of these Calendars are being enjoyed by saints of the Lord in their sunset years who are here in the home where I reside [in the USA] and where the Lord has given further opportunities to serve him.
Thank you for touching many lives through these Golden Thoughts Calendars and may the Lord continue to bless you in this fruitful ministry for him.
21 Nov 2006
New Spanish Posters now available
The Society is please to announce the availability of 10 Spanish Bible Text Posters. Produced on stout paper in large clear bold type and printed in two contrasting colours, they declare plainly the Word of God. Size 20" x 30" (750mm x 500mm). For use in public places.
Texts in Spanish are: (with product code)
SPP1 Romanos 6.23
SPP2 1 Timoteo 1.15
SPP3 Romanos 14.12
SPP4 Isaias 55.6
SPP5 Juan 3.3
SPP6 Exodo 20.8
SPP7 Juan 3.16
SPP8 Juan 8.12
SPP9 Amos 4.12
SPP10 Hechos 17.30
Letter received from UK Customer
Dear Trinitarian Bible Society
Your Golden thoughts have arrived this morning, beautifully packed as usual.
I don't know how much longer I will be able to send these lovely Golden Thoughts out as I will be 97 yrs this year.
Letter of Thanks from Zimbabwe
Again we write to acknowledge receipt of another years supply of Golden Thoughts Calendars in Ndebele, Xhosa and English. We pray with you that the word written in them may be blessed to those who receive them.
At first we thought there would be a problem in collecting them.... However, that was soon overcome, the lady at customs has had two children in our school so it was obvious to her what the boxes contained and that the calendars were not for sale (all the pupils in our secondary school receive an English copy to take home).
The calendars have now been distributed to the ministers in charge of congregations, and they will be given out in time for the New Year. For many households it will be their only calendar, so we hope that as they look up the dates, the words of life will be blessed to them. We have need of the Lord's blessing on the land as so many of the younger generation are dying.
02 Nov 2006
New Spanish Posters now available
The Society is pleased to announce the availability of 10 Spanish Bible Text Posters. Produced on stout paper in large clear bold type and printed in two contrasting colours, they declare plainly the Word of God. Size 20" x 30" (750mm x 500mm). For use in public places.
Texts in Spanish are: (with product code)
SPP1 Romanos 6.23
SPP2 1 Timoteo 1.15
SPP3 Romanos 14.12
SPP4 Isaias 55.6
SPP5 Juan 3.3
SPP6 Exodo 20.8
SPP7 Juan 3.16
SPP8 Juan 8.12
SPP9 Amos 4.12
SPP10 Hechos 17.30
Letter received from Africa:
The main reason why I am writing to you this letter is that all my Bibles has spoilt and now I do not have any Bible to go to church and a friend of my gave me this address to write to you. When I use to go to church, during preaching I do not have any Bible to concentrate on it. I have to be looking through my opponate who is sitting by me and any time the pastor give us quotations to go and read I have to go and borrow Bible and come and read.
Please I would like you to bring me a Bible so that I will be using it for Church.
We will be arranging for this person to receive a Bible, God willing.
Letter received from Ethiopia:
Greetings in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ
We are very happy about your offer to provide us some copies of the Holy Bible for the use of our students. We are in acute need of getting some copies this year because many of our students do not have English translation of the Holy Bible. Since the medium of instruction of the College is English, it is essential for them to have the same. So your offer is something very interesting for us. We assure you that our students will use the Bibles to understand the divine revelation and message from Almighty.
Report received from Scotland:
Our day is indeed a day of small things. Knowledge has been increased, not of the truth, but of the way that seemeth right unto a man; many run to and fro, not to the light, but to the darkness. And strong delusion abounds at every hand – we live in perilous times.
How wonderful then, as I silently sit on the High Street offering Bibles, to experience Scripture-hungry people requesting and receiving them with eagerness. When someone asks me for a Bible I say, “On one condition: that you read it, and ask the Lord to bless it to you.” So far no one has declined my terms. Some takers are the last you would expect, like ‘Goths’ for instance whom you would more readily associate with things dark and occultish. May they read the Scriptures and be transformed!
Over two Saturdays in under six hours total, I have personally distributed 47 Bibles only on request, that’s 8 per hour. So, many thanks for providing the Bibles, but I need more – I only have three left.
22 May 2006
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Circulation Figures for 2005 (2004 in brackets)
In 2005 the Society circulated 726,169 (572,693) Bibles, 5,839,302 (7,554,831) New Testaments, 7,060,590 (4,564,119) Scripture Portions, 672,794 (785,467) Calendars and 543,883 (407,150) Scripture Leaflets. These figures include 300,609 (138,577) Bibles and 5,561,150 (6,979,500) New Testaments under Royalties.
The following report was recently received into Head Office:
Moscow Conference Report
The conference was very well prepared and we had excellent speakers. The title of the three-day conference was Medicine and Gospel. Professors and doctors explained the occult background and dangers of alternative medicines. They discussed the current topics of bioethics concerning cloning, euthanasia, abortion and gene technology from a scientific side and in the light of the Gospel.
Almost all participants were missionaries and are engaged in a tough ministry to the glory of our LORD. Most of them were Christian physicians working in state hospitals, fighting a lonesome war against abortion and occult medical treatments. Some others are voluntary helpers who run Christian organizations.
The TBS book table caught a lot of attention. I got a first class place right in front of the registration desk. In the meantime a number of participants had already expressed strong interest to acquire some bibles. When I cleared the table after the conference there was one Russian and one French tract and one Hungarian bible left. They even took the Russian TBS principle copies that I left on the table.
The participants were very interested to hear about the TBS ministry and its goals. All speakers emphasized the necessity to check all things in this world in the light of the Holy Scriptures. But for the Russian people it was new that there is a devilish threat with modern bible translations. Today the Synodal bible is the only accepted bible translation and it seems that modern translations have so far only be accepted within certain groups.
All participants expressed how important this conference was for their work and spiritual awareness. The organizers asked me to come back next year and have a dedicated place in their program. At the moment they think about taking the conference to the Caucasus region. This area is full of shamanism and occult practices. Many Physicians – both Christian and Non-Christians – are very interested to hear about the subjects of the conference. At the end of the conference they handed out free bibles, so that anybody was able to read in the Word of God about the things that were said.
12 Feb 2005
The situation with our former branch in Canada has now been settled. Please click here for details of that settlement.
14 Jan 2003
The Society are pleased to announce the publication of our long-awaited Romanian Bible. Some thirteen years in the making, this Bible is now available for purchase.
In addition, we have also recently published the Gospel of John in Turkish and Armenian, and the Gospel of Mark in Lithuanian. We would invite you to see our online sales for more information.
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