The Bible Teachings Series is used in two Muslim schools and in several Christian schools where the teachers help the students answer the questions in the books. There is no organized Christian material available like this series in Pakistan. Some churches do have some material but it has not been distributed in the schools. The correspondence program only uses the books from the Bible Teaching Series. We do distribute Bible Stories for the children to take home, but we don’t have a teaching program to follow up those books. We only follow up the seventeen books in the Bible Teaching Series.

A couple of years ago we learned that in our region there are five to seven Christian students in every Muslim school. Those schools had no program for Christian students while the Muslim students were studying the Koran and other Islamic materials. The Christian students were merely excused from the religion class. I asked the Muslim teachers to help us teach the Bible Teachings Series to the Christian students. They not only happily allowed this; the Muslim teachers also volunteered to teach this course, and not only to the Christians but to the Muslims as well.

By the end of 2008 a large number of students were enrolled in the Bible Correspondence and Teaching School. The vast majority of the books have been distributed by our field correspondents and about 15% of the books have been distributed in the previously mentioned schools. More than 95% of the students return their answers to the tests at the end of each book through our field correspondents.

Delivery of Books

Most of the books are distributed personally by eleven field correspondents, whereas only thirty to forty people contact our program monthly through the postal service. The books are distributed in 261 locations such as schools, villages and hospitals. Outside of the schools, the books are used in small groups. Of the 16,050 copies that were distributed of the first book in the series, Jesus the Christ, 8,768 final tests have been received by our program.

In addition to the teachings series, we also provide Bible Stories, Jesus Is Born and The Promise to children and adults at weddings, church services, and in hotels. We give them to sick people, friends and relatives. We have also used them when visiting prisoners and kiln workers where the people are depressed and despised by the majority. On Christmas and Easter we visit as a family those who work in the kilns. We have also started distributing the books to the children of the Bustees.

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