By Grace Alegba
The Gideons International, an Association of Christian business and professional people preaching and distributing Bibles worldwide, on Sunday said it had distributed 74.6 million Bibles in Nigeria since 1964.
The Gideon’s International representative in Nigeria, Mr Mike Itegboje, gave the figure at the Foursquare Gospel Church, Cement Zonal Headquarters in Lagos.
Itegboje, while soliciting the church’s support, shared several testimonies of people whose lives had been transformed through its efforts in making Bibles available in churches and most public places.
He shared the story of an old man who traveled on foot for seven days searching for the “blue book that speaks about Jesus’’ and stressed the need to make more copies easily available.
“We are the Gideon’s, what we do is that we place Bibles and God uses it to save people.
“In Nigeria, we have distributed 74.6 million Bibles since 1964 and
4.5 million of the figure in…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
