Today we set out to distribute Bibles in 2 schools today. "Set out" is the key phrase as today was quite honestly the most frustrating/discouraging day since coming here. After morning devotions Jonathan arrived at 8 and we piled into his vehicle and set out for our first school.
Upon arriving at the first school we learned from Jonathan that they had all ready preached to the students and we were now returning to pass out the Bibles. This was very unusual as Bibles had always been passed out immediately after the presentations thus far. The principle at this school however insisted that each student file past one by one and sign a sheet to indicate they had received a Bible.
At a smaller school this might have worked but this school had 900 students!
To make the situation even more frustrating we were forced to wait through about an hour long assembly involving the entire school to cap off their "Library Week". This is a week dedicated to "the greatness of the Library". Under normal circumstances Fijian students are amazing singers but it seems when forced to create songs about the greatness of Libraries their singing becomes quite hard to bear. The library speeches were even worse and by the end of the performance the Library was about the last place we felt like visiting!
The students were free after this and we resumed the slow process of passing out the Bibles one-by-one.
After this school we ate lunch and waited to hear back from the second school we had scheduled.
After some phone calls and much waiting we were informed that they had cancelled our visit for today.
The saving factor of today was the 900 bibles that were handed out or left behind for absentees.
God's Word is making its way into the hands of students and then into their homes across the country of Fiji. A man we met on a bus told how he was reading the Bible his son had received.
Jonathan just mentioned to me he has many messages on his machine from people calling his number that is stamped in these Bibles.
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