Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Donating for Haiti earthquake relief.

Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

(One drop at a time.) My journal entries about offering copies of the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and other LDS church books, mainly to immigrants in their native language, mainly in Indianapolis, Indiana. With 106 translations, the Book of Mormon (along with the Bible) is a good "Rosetta Stone" for learning English or other languages, in addition to being a missionary tool.

My goals in keeping this blog/journal are: to encourage others to offer people copies of the Book of Mormon and the Bible, to illustrate the incredible number of recent immigrants who are eager for bilingual material, to illustrate the ease of encountering them and offering them material, and to make known the wonderful deeds of the Lord (Ps 105:1, Isa 12:4) in arranging many of these encounters. I realize that the concept of offering foreign language books to strangers is just plain weird to many people, so here are some hints if you are intrigued by this and wish to try it. Respectful comments and constructive criticism are invited.

The goal of the book placement effort is to provide, in a friendly non-threatening way, gospel material to someone who is willing to receive it in their native language and English.

To the recipients of these books who read this: I thank you again for allowing me to be of service to you. I encourage you to read the material, and pray to God that He confirm the truth of it to you. The Bible and the Book of Mormon are both the Word of God. Living according to their teachings brings happiness.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Donating for Haiti earthquake relief.

Here are a few legitimate places to donate for Haiti earthquake relief:

Food for the Poor.

International Rescue Committee. A very respectable world-wide organization.

Save the Children.

ChildFund International. Formerly Christian Children's Federation.

All the above have excellent ratings at Charity Navigator, showing that they do not spend an inordinate percent of their revenue on administration or fund-raising. The first two, Food for the Poor, and IRC, have very excellent 5-star ratings.

I'm also given to understand that 100% of donations to LDS Humanitarian Services go to actual programs/services/assistance, and that the church pays for all associated overhead.

1 Comments:

At 1/17/2010 01:45:00 PM, Jonathan Mahoney said...: I would suggest that it's best to give all funds to the Church's humanitarian effort as they are already on the ground there. If we are contributing as LDS it'd be good to have our funds recognized as being from the Church on the ground.

Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Friday, January 15, 2010

Donating for Haiti earthquake relief.

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