Reaching the Nations thru Prisons

By Kathleen Skaar, Executive Director

We had just started distributing Christian books and Bibles to U.S. prisons when someone donated a Korean Bible. Anders and I asked each other, “What are we going to do with this?” Nevertheless we prayed about it and a couple of days later when Anders was on the phone with a prison chaplain he asked, “You wouldn’t happen to have a Korean Bible would you?”

Over the years we have seen God’s special work in matching Bibles in other languages with men and women from those countries. Currently we have a request from a chaplain for a Japanese Bible. We pray that God will fill that request.

But there is another aspect to providing Bibles to men and women from other cultures. They will find Jesus here in a U.S. prison cell and share the good news with others from that country. It may be a relative in the U.S. or upon release, go back to their native land taking the good news with them. It is exciting!

We are also praying for God to open doors in other nations so that we may take the gospel directly into the prisons there. Thailand is on our radar screen and we are praying that it is on God’s also. In the meantime, we are thankful that God has His hand upon CLI and is blessing the nations in unique ways through the imprisoned.