I HAD A NEAT PHONE CALL YESTERDAY
A woman named Louise called and said, “I found one of your books in a medical clinic this week and wondered if it would be possible to get one for myself. I am familiar with the Bible, but this one was so easy to read, I could hardly put it down. I tore your phone number off the back of the book so I wouldn’t forget it.”
“One of your books” usually means a Transport For Christ Road Map of Life New Testament. We distribute between fifteen and eighteen thousand per year – mostly to truck stops, terminals, and restaurants. The cover is personalized for TFC – with a rig on the front cover and several ministry addresses on the back.
“Easier to read than other Bibles” means she picked up a NIV version instead of the King James.
The phone call prior to hers was a woman from Kansas, whose trucker husband found a Road Map of Life in a truck stop, and wanted to order several to keep in his truck, so he had some available as a witnessing tool. That is a fairly normal call.
But, a medical clinic?
She asked about the cost. I said, “One for you personally is free. If you want to order more to give to friends, we ask you to cover our cost of $2.00 per New Testament.”
Then, as I was getting her mailing address, the next unusual thing happened – she was from Newfoundland!
It would be neat to know how that New Testament got from our office in Pennsylvania to a medical clinic in Newfoundland.
“So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11).