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When William Bryan, living in the state of Washington, sends his regular donation to the American Bible Society, he becomes transformed.
In his mind's eye, he is no longer 70 years old and retired. No, he returns in time to the early 1970s when, as a U.S. Air Force officer, he was serving in the jungles of northwest Thailand. There he was a link in the chain that delivered what he refers to as the Little Red Bible.
40 million Bibles...
...lined up end-to-end would total 6,570 km - longer than the Great Wall of China, and more than the distance between London and Chicago, or between Nanjing and Brisbane.
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| ...stacked one on top of the other would reach a height of 1,050,000 metres - 118 times higher than Mount Everest, the world's highest peak. |
Mr. Bryan gives to the American Bible Society because of that personal experience.
Mr. Bryan served as deputy commander of a base close to North Vietnam that was a haven for pilots whose planes were damaged on bombing runs during the Vietnam War.
While there, he delivered Bibles to the Rev. Jim Conklin, a minister involved in a dangerous mission. Rev. Conklin would take the Bibles, travel for two days on rough jungle roads, and then walk for another two days beyond where the roads became impassable. He would then deliver the Bibles across the Chinese border. At the time, China, still recovering from the tumult of the Cultural Revolution, considered Bibles dangerous contraband.
Mr. Bryan still recalls some three decades later, "I felt good about being just a small part of the Bibles in Red China project."
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| The Gospels and the Book of Acts were the first Scriptures to be published in Braille in China.The Amity Printing Company in Nanjing prints Bibles for the Chinese under a joint agreement with the United Bible Societies. |
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