At our missions conference last September, my husband met a missionary from Bearing Precious Seed, a printing ministry that prints tracts, Bibles, and John & Romans booklets; in various languages. This missionary told Jason that when we get closer to our start date of our church, to let them know and they would give us some John & Romans booklets to pass out. Since then, we have been in contact and they had 5,000 of these booklets ready for us to pick up at any time. Bearing Precious Seed is in Milford, Ohio, about a 2 hour drive.
Jason got off work early yesterday and decided to call and see if it would be a good day to go and pick them up. He was planning on just him and a friend to go and pick them up but his friend had plans yesterday. So he said we could all just go and enjoy a little drive. One of the beauties of homeschooling...you have so much flexibility. They said it would be fine to pick them up and he told them we would arrive around 1:30 p.m. I packed a few snacks for the kids and we were off!
When we got there, they loaded our van with 17 boxes of John & Romans booklets and asked us if we wanted a tour of the place. SURE we would! It was amazing to see how the Lord took this small printing ministry back in 1973 and grow it and use it to reach the world with the gospel. They print in so many different languages and send Bibles free of charge to missionaries all over the world.
After our tour, the director asked us if we had ever been to the Creation Museum, which is located only 45 minutes from BPS. Well, no, we hadn't. He said they have free passes and we could use them anytime we wanted, we could even go today! Jason looked at me and said, how about today? Like right now? Well, SURE, I would LOVE too! So off we went to the Creation Museum and it was fabulous. If you have not been there, it is a must. We really only had about 2 1/2 hours to spend there since they close at 6, so we flew through there trying to see as much as possible. I am eager to go back when we have more time to look at everything.
On the way back to BPS (we had to take the passes back), we discovered that their midweek Bible study was on Thursday instead of Wednesday. We looked at each other and thought, why not, we'll just stay for church too! After a quick call to my mom to let the dog out, we were ready to spend the evening at First Baptist Church of Milford, Ohio. The pastor was out of town, so an assistant pastor gave the message. At the end of service, the pastor announced who we were and that we were planting a church in Columbus and to make sure to stop by and say hello. What a huge encouragement for all of these people, whom we have never met, come by and let us know that they would be praying for us and our church plant.
When our church is able to start supporting missionaries, Bearing Precious Seed will be one of the first that we support.
What a wonderful, wonderful day. God is just so good.
All
the
time.
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