From Nepal

My Dear Friend Brother Fred Palmerton,

I received 42 items of big and small Children Materials, today. The mail bag was sent on 1 June 2007. We are so happy that we receive your materials today.

We were in need of materials for our Children as well as for adults those who newly come to Church. You know that Nepal was hostile and restricted nation for many years but God shook the foundation of Nepal and it has now become a secular state. God really has open a big door in Nepal so that we go and bring many souls to the Kingdom of God. Thank you for providing materials to us.

We will pray for you and for Christian Resources International that your ministry will touch some one some where as you spread the word and help. I have attached some photos of the materials I took here upon arrivals and my School Photo of April and my family photo, please remember us in your prayers. Your investment won't go in vain surely God shall reward you for this.

Pastor Reuben and Rita Rai
Nepal

From Costa Rica

This note comes from a man who recently did some translations for us (Luis is a linguist and translates several languages) and we sent him a box of books. His Pastor who speaks only Spanish, requested a box through Bare your Bookshelf, but we filled it here because of our Spanish inventory.

Dear CRI,

The goods you sent to us came very soon. They arrived into the Post Office on August 23rd. and I picked them up today, August 24th. Pastor Alvaro was very glad to hear his books had arrived and we will bring them to him next Sunday.

Thank you so very much. The quality of these books is outstanding, not only on account of content but of binding, paper, and font size. Thank you specially for the beautiful Hebrew-English New Testament. I love it. Hebrew touches a cord in my heart, I that can be said, since longer than I can remember.

Thank you too for the book on Creation. Thanks to CRI Books I have come to a better understanding of the importance the doctrine of creation has for the doctrine of sin and redemption by our Lord. In a nutshell, if the whole story of creation and the fall as told in Genesis were not true, then the whole life/ministry/death/resurrection of Christ would be meaningless, since He came to look for and save what was lost. If no creation/fall ever existed, then sin is an invention of some over the past centuries, and Christ died in vain, since he died for something that did not exist in fact.

Please tell CRI Books my learning and ministry have been expanded and enriched through your service and your work for the Lord is not in vain.

Again, if I can be somehow useful to you, please let me know.

May God bless you abundantly.

Sincerely,

Luis Diego

From New Zealand

Missonaries in New Zealand sent some photos, noting how they used the CRI resources available to them.

Two of our nursery children enjoying a puzzle we picked up at CRI

Two of our ladies using the church library, which is an unusual, but valued church resource here in New Zealand. Most of the library books we picked up at CRI during various visits there. We store the library in the bins for easy setup and take down at our rented facilities.

From India

This testimony is from from a man who is studying in India. He will be going back to his home in Myanmar after graduation in a few months (Myanmar is not particularly open to Christianity, so he is headed home to a MINE FIELD). Some friends of his arranged to have some boxes of material sent to him and he was so excited.

It is wonderful to see the boxes which you have sent to me. Today I happen to come the church once again from my ministry. And the boxes have been reached here last week. I just want to express my heartfelt thanks to you. Thank you so much for what you have contributed to our ministry. Really my thanks will be more than words can express. I pray that may the Lord bring his blessing upon you service and life as you are in his wonderful ministry.

One of the boxes is opened on the way. I will check it later and let you know if it is there some missing. Hope that no lost and missing will be there. I am very glad to bring those books to my place. I am proud of your ministry and praying for you all. God bless you once again. With a thousand thanks, Jeremy

From South Africa

I don't know how to thank you for the books and all the things that I received on 1st Feb 2007 from your office.

You would not know what it meant to my wife when she saw this, she started crying to think that somebody that does not even know her would have done a deed like this.

Thank you again you will not know how appreciated this surprise was to me and my wife.

Gods love to you and the entire mission. Keep on spreading the Word and you and all friends in God will grow from strength to strength.

God's Love

Louis K.

Johannesburg, South Africa

From Costa Rica

The quote below is from a linguist in Costa Rica. A few years back, he wrote to us and asked for materials but couldn't pay for the shipping. He offered to do translation for us, and through the years he has done just that. We stay in touch by emailing -- we look forward to eternity when we can meet him face to face!


Happy (and a very blessed) New Year!

I want to let you know CRI books have been a blessing to me. Since you sent the first I have been reading some (still not all, as they are so many!) and I have shared my knowledge with my Sunday School class. A lady went so far to say I am like an encyclopedia. After taking away the hype (she DID exagerate) I am so thankful to see I have been able to learn and share what I have acquired from your books. So, please tell CRI Books your ministry has been very effective, encouraging, and valuable to me and my Sunday School class. Titles such as "It couldn't just happen" and "The Collapse of Evolution" have been great here.

Also, I have had a chance to share the Gospel for years with my fellow workers in the special bus taking us back and forth from INCAE, the business school I sell translations to. Since they are not Christians, discussions focus on topics such as history and the like, and there your books have proven invaluable. I can boast I could make good points one day from what I had learned from one of these one or two days before. With this group, church history books have been most useful.

Thank you so very much. Your work in the Lord is not in vain!

Luis Diego

From West Africa

Its indeed a great joy for me to recieve the parcel you sent. I was highly surprised.

Words can not express the gratitude of my appreciation . Its only God of heaven that will repay you.

Am glad to recieve the BIBLE AND OTHER CHRISTIAN BOOKS which will surely bring a great turn around in my life.

Thanks and God Bless you.

OSENI A. SIMEON,

GAMBIA, WEST AFRICA

From Kenya

Praise the Lord!

I'm very excited this morning after i recieved the
literature you sent to me...God bless you so much.
When i went to the post office to pick them up, i was
more than excited and immediatelly i got to my house i
took sometime to thank God and bless Him for the
wonderful work he has done to me through you( I've
been praying for such).

I have also taken sometime to pray for you, the CRC
and the volunteers.

Now i believe these materials wii help me equip people
more and also they will be of great help in our
library. You had mentioned that you wish to know
whether i was blessed by them...please know that i'm
very greatful to for this literture and i want to say
that my life will never be the same again..

Please inform my supporter that i'm grateful of
his/her support and i will be grateful to even have
more of the literature in future. You don't know how
much i'm excited to the extent that last night i spent
part of it reading part of this wonderful materials.
Please let my supporter know that i will be praying
for him/her and it's prayer that God will continue
lifting you up as you impact lives through your
gifts.

I really appreciate you and the rest of the
team there, i want to say that this gift has affected
my life to the extent that i would pray that God will
one day bring us together and share more (please if
you, or my supporter or anybody else from your team
will think of visiting Africa, please choose my
country Kenya for i'm more than willing to meet with
you in person...i feel that God had a purpose of bring
us together and i feel that we are people of the same
family thus i would one day meet with you and
fellowship together.The reason to why i'm very much
excited is that the literature you have sent will be
adding AN ETERNAL VALUE to my life through the
knowledge i'm going to get from them... praise GOD!!!.

Please i pray that God will bless you abundantly and
once again let my supporter know that i appreacite. If
you don't mind you can forward this e-mail to him/her
or you can send me his/her e-mail address since i feel
that i need to thank him/her more.

This gift will go along way to bless me, my
family, the church and others.

I wish you a Merry Christmas!!!

Daniel Kyallo.
Nairobi- Kenya.