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Books for One-Day Churches

The Review and Herald has launched a new mission project to provide books for the popular One-Day Churches and Schools that are being built in developing countries by Maranatha Volunteers International.

“It is very simple,” says Dwight Hall, marketing vice president. “Maranatha has been building churches and schools in countries where funds are limited, and the needs are many. The Review and Herald has been publishing books and Bibles and sending them around the world, particularly to places where souls are thirsty for the Word of God. Now we’re going to work together.”

The One-Day Church is a 20- by 38-foot steel structure that can be built anywhere in the world quickly and economically. The One-Day School is a 21- by 30-foot classroom. Maranatha sets up these buildings in places where church members cannot afford to build their own. Often the church members cannot even afford Bibles. “Twenty people will share one Bible,” says Hall.

“You know what the first thing a person in Africa does when they get a book?” he continues. “They take paper and make a cover to protect the book. Books are that precious!”

The Review has put together two book packages, one to fit the needs of the One-Day Church, and one to fit the needs of the One-Day Schools in English-speaking countries. 

“Let me ask you: What good is a school without books?” says Hall. “Or how is a church supposed to fulfill God’s commission without Bibles?”

The mission project was launched in Hagerstown, Maryland, on May 20 and 21 in programs featuring Dick Duerksen from Maranatha and Ted N. C. Wilson, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. “Pray for the project that the Review and Herald and Maranatha have initiated to bring the Word of God to people,” said Wilson during his presentation.

Find out more about the project here.