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‘Power of Scripture’: Kansas City church sends Bibles to Philippines

  • March 19, 2022
  • Missouri's The Pathway
  • Featured, Latest News, Missions, Missouri, Tennessee
From left, Abigail Ogle and Nancy Gatapia roll air out of Bible pages in preparation for the pages to be bound.
(Photo courtesy of Country Meadows Baptist Church)

‘Power of Scripture’: Kansas City church sends Bibles to Philippines

Scripture is building heart connections and relationships between Kansas City and the Philippines. The first of two Bible building conferences was held at Country Meadows Baptist Church in Kansas City.

“We started the ministry by hand carrying about 300 Bibles to the Philippines,” Bill Barker, member of First Bible Baptist of Blue Springs, Missouri, said. “When we learned the need for Scripture, especially in three of the 86 dialects spoken in the Philippines, we knew we must be involved.”

The Bibles were printed at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Oliver Springs, Tennessee. The loose manuscripts then traveled to Kansas City for completion. The people attending the conferences put together 6,000 to 8,000 Bibles in the Ilonggo, Tagolog, or Cebuano languages.

‘Great need for Scripture’

“Gwinda Fors and her husband, Eric, ministered for many years with the Ilonggo people,” Barker said. “She shared the great need for Scripture with me. I know that $50 a week is the average salary in the Philippines with farmers earning even less. So, they can’t afford to purchase Bibles.”

In addition to the Scripture, these Bibles include valuable information. “In the back,” Barker said, “we include the plan of salvation, information on baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We include other discipleship information so that a new believer can take it along to share with another. We do not want them to be saved and say, ‘Now what?’  We want them to grow in grace.”

50 prisoners received Christ

One of the key pastor leaders in the Philippines is Sandy Dionio, noted Barker.

“We hear so many great stories about the impact of these Bibles,” Barker said. “I love to hear of souls being saved. Pastor Sandy took Bibles into a prison and 50 prisoners accepted Christ. They received freedom in Christ.”

Barker, known by many in Kansas City as “Bible Bill,” said the ministry was able to get two new cutters and two new binders for their work this year. “We usually have 30–40 people attending our conference,” he said. “There is a constant flow of people coming to collate, roll, check, finish borders and cut the manuscripts to go into the binder. Then, we pack the Bibles in “Blessing boxes” to ship out.”

In addition to the Country Meadows conference, another one will be held in Richmond, Missouri. “We have many joining this conference from many different churches,” Barker said. “It excites me to see God working through so many gospel believing churches. We hope to do another 8,000 there with a goal of sending out 30,000 soon.”

In addition to the new equipment to put the Bibles together in Kansas City, the ministry also purchased two horses in the Philippines to take the Bibles up the mountains to reach more people.

“We know the power of the Scripture,” Barker said. “Many of the truck drivers delivering the Bibles to our pastor partners are being led to the Lord.”


EDITOR’S NOTE — This article was written by Vicki Stamps and was originally published by The Pathway, newsjournal of the Missouri Baptist Convention.

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