Operation Joshua II ( June 25 – July 2, 2009)

Thank you to all who were a part of this incredible outreach - through prayer, Adopting-a-Greek Village, volunteering or supporting in spirit and/or financially!

• 98% of the entire prefecture of Messinia blanketed with Bibles
• 1 front page newspaper story attack
• 1 arrest for interrogation purposes
• 2 TV reports against us
• 3 priests in an Orthodox church in Kalamata blessed us for the great work we were doing
  4-5 condemning radio announcements related to our OJ2 efforts by the Orthodox State Church
• 6 day outreach campaign
• 7-10 hours/day on the road delivering Bibles
• 14 teams
• 17 countries represented on OJ team
• 19.5 tons of Bibles
• 36 vehicles
• 45 priests contacted by mail and sent leather-bound Bibles
• 58 tents at camp
• 108 villages visited in one day (record)
• 153 total participants
• 375 villages covered (door-to-door)
• 6-7,000 villages yet to be reached with Bibles in mainland Greece (Islands completed)
• 15,081 New Testaments delivered door-to-door in one day in the city of Kalamata
• 19,000 kms traveled
• 40,000 Euros paid in first installment on 114,147 Euro bill for Bibles
• 44,091 Greek hardbound New Testaments distributed in 5 1/2 days!
• 74,147 Euros still to pay for Bibles in 2 installments - Praise God! The payments have been made in full! As we prepare for OJ III we are once again trusting God for the funds needed to purchase another 60,000 Bibles for distribution.
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As step-by-step God led us to plant the seeds of His Word in the hearts of Greek villagers, our hearts were not left untouched by the refreshing Good News message. Our OJ team was challenged to offer our lives as living sacrifices, and many young people made commitments to fully surrender everything to the Lord. Praise God for the way He works in the lives of his children!

Join us for 2010!

Come and join us for Operation Joshua III, coming up in the summer of 2010!

For information on how to give to this project, click here. here.

Quotes

“May God bless you in your efforts to bring the Good News.” - Response card, Kalamata, 2009

Maria, an Orthodox woman from Agios Dimitrios called our Athens office to offer her house for meetings of those interested in hearing more about the Bible and about Jesus. She asked, "Who can you send on a regular basis to tell us the Good News - my house is open from now onwards. I want to help follow up on people interested in God."
Let’s pray for the right person to go and help start a regular home fellowship with wisdom and with love for the Orthodox people. – HM office staff, 2009

A woman dressed in black who had lost her husband asked, “How can I know the hope that you have?"
The OJ2 volunteer pointed to the scripture that was just left at her door. “You must be the ‘Hellenic Mission’...many years ago you came to my village across the mountain and told us the same message.”
God said, “My Word will not return void!” - Johnathan