“For the kingdom is the LORD’s, and He rules over the nations.” (Psalm 22:28)
“Go therefore…” (Matthew 28:19)
A Country:
“All along the way, we felt the Lord holding our hand, arranging our schedule, and causing us to bump into the right people. God was in it all!” So reported our Tok-Pisin-fluent coworker couple from ROCK’s Idaho office, just returned from 3 weeks in Papua New Guinea.
Their mission? To spend a week in each of three locations to connect with God’s servants for the strategic distribution of 30,000 KING bilong GLORI books in Pidgin and 10,000 in English. Countless are the stories of God opening doors to equip believers, ministries, and churches —and place the books and movie in public schools, a TV station, hospitals, prisons, missions, and more. Among the many groups taking part, MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) has a key role, with leadership voicing this perspective: “Every flight must carry at least 10 books.”
An Island:
The ROCK couple’s final week was spent on Bougainville, a vast (half the size of Canada’s Vancouver Island), mysterious, volcanic island, which has been war-torn for half a century. But, praise God, MAF was recently granted permission to return to the island and has allocated 3,000 Tok Pisin KING of GLORY books for distribution throughout the region — in sync with extensive transformational relief work.
In the island’s primary hospital, a Christian lady overseeing relief work, wrote: “The hospital has been in a state that felt inhumane and looked evil.” But as gruesome tasks of clean up and vital restoration efforts progressed, a patient’s family member cried out, “Tenk yu, tenk yu, tenk yu!” while hugging and thanking the lady for a clean, functioning bathroom. And when our ROCK couple offered to provide a projector for the hospital to show the KoG movie to the patients, the lady exclaimed, “Of course! We want it! I’m Imagining patients and their families watching the entire Bible in their language on screen! I have goose bumps down my legs…”. Pray for lasting gospel impact in minds, hearts, lives, families, and communities.
A World:
Elsewhere around the globe, ROCK is receiving a growing number of requests from indigenous ministries in various — often poor — nations wanting to print and distribute ROCK International gospel and discipleship books already translated in local languages. One recent request came from a leader serving in the UK and India. Raised in Hindu tradition and bound by addictions and deep inner turmoil, his life was radically transformed by the gospel 10 years ago.
Now, leading a gospel mission he founded 3 years ago, his team is about to print and distribute the Hindi edition of One God One Message (see May 2025 update) in North India and beyond. “It’s a wonderful resource for evangelistic distribution and discipleship,” he wrote, with plans to distribute it in homes, prisons, churches, etc. Another tool, What If Jesus Meant What He Said?, has also been recently translated into Hindi and is in the proofing stage. Amid such expanding opportunities and ROCK projects from America to Asia to Africa to Oceana, please pray for wisdom as we seek to steward well the funds God provides through His people. 