Teenage Girls Suffering the Most from Despair

Depression and thoughts of suicide among teenage girls shows an alarming increase in the last 10 years.

Tract: "No Fear?"

Description: Suicide...The subject is common among teens today. But when Lance decides it is the only way out of his troubles, he discovers that hell is not the party place described in popular songs.

1,300,000 Tracts Heading for the Philippines!

The requests for tracts in the Philippines are astounding.

God has opened a special window of opportunity for us to be able to get the gospel out in the Philippines. So, we are trying to take full advantage of it! People's hearts are soft to the gospel there and nearly everyone gladly receives a tract.

As we mentioned in last week's Chicknews, we filled an ocean container end-to-end with 1.3 million Chick tracts. We still need some funding for this, plus we have requests for 300,000 more! Can you help?

If you are able to help, please visit our mission fund webpage to learn more and see how to give.

New Project: Mexico and Guatemala

Now that the Philippine project is nearing completion, the next big project is for Mexico and Guatemala.

Missionary Joe Hendrigsman, sent out of Grace Baptist Church in Lees Summit, MO, has asked for one million Chick tracts for the growing ministries around Oaxaca, the most ethnically diverse state in Mexico. They will be used not only in Southern Mexico, but will also be taken into Guatemala to help build the churches there.

Joe told us more in a recent email:

"Chick tracts are a wonderful tool for kids and adults to learn about Christ. We insert tracts into each outreach packet (we average about 300-400 weekly) that we give out and also have various medical brigades throughout the year and give out thousands of tracts at each of these events.

"This past Friday, we sent our first shipment of material to Guatemala to fellow missionaries who had no way of getting tracts and Bibles. We would like to be able to continue supplying pastors and missionaries in the neighboring country of Guatemala."

Hendrigsman also plans to use many of the tracts to help 5 new church plants going on in the State of Oaxaca, plus during medical clinic outreaches that bring people from all around. In addition, he has short-term mission teams coming throughout the year who will be put to work passing these tracts to the people.

There are big plans to put these tracts to work right away! A transport ministry has offered to take the entire 10 tons of tracts across the US/Mexico border, clear customs, and deliver them to Oaxaca, all for free.

There will be no transportation cost for the Mission Fund on this project. Every dollar given will go for tracts.

Is 1 John 5:7 not in any Greek manuscript before the 1600s? If that is true, why is it in the KJV?

This verse about the trinity belongs in the King James Bible and was preserved by faithful Christians. But the passage was removed from many Greek manuscripts, because of the problems it seemed to cause.