“One Marine wife actually jumped up and down with joy when I gave her Rick’s book, Purpose Driven Life, and her very first, ever Bible. She was so cute. She listens to Rick on the radio and to find out we were from his church and were giving her his book AND a Bible, she was beside herself.”
“A little boy came through with his mom. He stopped in front of me and was touching a book. He asked me what it was and I told him it was a Bible for children. He asked me what a Bible was. I told him it was a wonderful book about God. His mom snapped at him and said, ‘Yeah, that’s that crap your grandma used to try to cram down you.’ He looked at me with huge brown eyes, stroking the little Bible and said, ‘I never had a Bible.’ I sent up an arrow prayer and told him if it was OK with his mom he could have it. She said he could have it. He picked it up, held it close and looked at me with those gorgeous eyes and said, ‘I promise, I will take really good care of it. Thank you so much.’ All I could think was, ‘And a little child shall lead them.'”
~ Charlyne, volunteer