Our next TERM Seminar will be at the Word of Life Bible Institute at Owen Sound, Ontario. If you’d like to have a refresher on the gospel, or if you have a desire to lead others in a gospel study, join us at our seminar. Our method is very transferable: you’ll be able to teach as you’ve been taught, and you’ll be able to teach others to lead as well. Learn more or register.
New Canada store
We’re pleased to announce our new Canada store. Our aim was to make it easy to use on a computer, smartphone or tablet.
Near the top of each page, you’ll find the main categories:
‘Tools to give away‘ contains all the books and DVDs that you can give to friends and family.
‘Tools to guide a course‘ contains all the tools to help you lead a course or study.
‘Training‘ lets you register for upcoming workshops and seminars.
We hope you’ll find the store easy to use. Do message us if you encounter any problems.
New Canada store: http://ca.goodseed.com
I want your “Be Ready” box!
A “Be Ready” box is any box packed with a variety of GoodSeed books, DVDs and audiobooks. When an opportunity to share the gospel arises, you can dip into the box and pull out an appropriate translation or book and give it to the person you’re speaking with.
One of our staff members was teaching at a church in Arizona and he explained that as ambassadors for Christ, we ought to be ready to share the gospel whenever the opportunity arises. He explained how to pack a “Be Ready” box for the car and home.
“By This Name” is now available in Mongolian!
We’re excited to announce that By This Name is now available in Mongolian! The title of the book in Mongolian is “ЭMMaЙ T0CROHbI 3aMД TaapaЛДcaH YЛ TaHЙX XYH.” The literal translation is… “The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus.” Confusing? Well, it just so happens that the content of “By This Name” is most appropriate for Mongolia, but the translators found that the title of “The Stranger” resonated better with the locals as their culture has been heavily influenced by a nomadic lifestyle. So, we took the content of By This Name and married it with the title of The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus.
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Stolen!
(Editor’s note: Here is a rather quirky story from our archives.)
In 2000, we were getting The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus translated into French. Lillie,* one of people helping on that project, told us that her husband’s copy of the book was stolen from his office!
Several months later, Lillie and her husband traveled to attend their son’s wedding. They brought along with them three copies of L’Homme sur le chemin d’Emmaüs. During the time they were with their family, their car was broken into and all three copies of the books were stolen too!
Lillie managed to laugh it off and said that if she ever hears of a criminal coming to know the Lord after reading The Stranger, she’ll know where he or she got the copy. When she related these two incidents to her Bible study group, they thought that the book must be really special if people were willing to steal it! They asked to study the book together.
We never know what happens when a book explaining the gospel gets into another person’s hands. Whether he (or she) received it as a gift or he stole it, our prayer is that he will read it, understand it and believe.
(* All names changed as per GoodSeed policy.)
Photo credit: Jon Collier on flickr
More passionate about sharing the gospel
In March, two of our staff members conducted a seminar about sharing the gospel. One of the couples that attended wrote a note:
“Both my wife and I left feeling revived and more passionate about sharing the gospel.
“I shared my experience from the seminar and we are going to start a Bible study group with a few of our leaders and core members using “The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus.” We will offer a few classes over the summer and in the fall to our members. The members of the first two studies will lead the fall classes.
“We have been looking for ways to better disciple our people and encourage them and equip them to share the gospel…. We will be using this study as a platform and starting place.”
Whenever people get excited about sharing the gospel using our tools, we thank God that our ministry is able to help believers fulfill the biblical mandate of being ambassadors for Christ. Pray with us that this couple and their church will be able to share the gospel with many.
“The Stranger” now available in China
We’re excited to announce that a local Chinese publisher is now printing and selling the Simplified Chinese edition of The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus… in China! (And with a new cover too.)
In our continued effort to make our tools available to anyone anywhere in the world, we’re glad to see that people in China are now be able to order the book from a local bookstore called Heavenly Stairways.
If you have friends in China, let them know the The Stranger is now available to them in the stores and online: The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus in Simplified Chinese.
The quiet ambassador
In the waiting area of a local business, one of our staff members spotted something familiar. Can you see what it is?
We think it’s neat that the business owner is following the biblical mandate of making the most of every opportunity. He’s trying to share the precious gospel message in the waiting lounge!
Easy enough for a burned-out mind like mine to understand.
(Editor’s note: Upfront it seems difficult to guide someone through a study of the Bible. But what if you had to deal with troubled teens? How do you hold their attention? How do you explain the Bible’s truth in a way that they can understand? Learn how George used the Worldview Rethink tools to do just that.)
Recently, George* finished a Worldview Rethink course with teenage boys from a resident recovery program. These boys were aged between 13-18 and were struggling with life-controlling issues like behavioral problems, substance abuse and more. The Worldview Rethink curriculum provided an easy and clear way to teach the Bible’s message to these troubled youths.
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What does it mean to be a Christian?
(Editor’s note: In a world of ever-increasing biblical illiteracy, people presume they know what the Bible is all about just because they attend church regularly or they do “Christian” things. As Brandon’s story illustrates, a person can live his life acting like a Christian without actually being one. But it isn’t hard to get a good foundation of the Bible if one reads a book that explains its message clearly.)
We received a long, hand-written letter from Brandon.* In over four pages of beautiful penmanship, he described his mistaken ideas about what he thought it meant to be a Christian. He writes:
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