Members of Immanuel Baptist Church may never go to Haiti to spread the message of Jesus Christ to the country's citizens, but that doesn't mean they won't be able to affect change in the Haiti.
Volunteers at the church are spending the week putting together books comprised of biblical books John and Romans to be sent to missionaries in Haiti as part of their mission outreach.
"We may never have our footprints in Haiti, but we'll have our fingerprints there," said Joe Clifford, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church.
The church committed to making 40,000 books by the end of the week, with between 30 and 40 volunteers working 12 hours a day to complete the task. As of mid-afternoon Wednesday, they'd already completed 25,000 copies.
The paper books cost as little as 10 cents to make, said Dale Money, representative for Seedline, the organization that prints the pages, but the churches assemble them for distribution.
Money said that Seedline actually prints three different books to for distribution, the one containing only Romans and John that Immanuel Baptist Church was producing, the New Testament and the entire bible.
Romans and John were chosen because they are evangelistic in nature and because they contain most of the major biblical doctrines, Money said.
This is the third year members of the church have participated in the Seedline ministry. The first year they finished 11,000 books and last year they completed 30,000, Clifford said.
Seedline is a part of the Bearing Precious Seed ministry of First Baptist Church in Milford, Ohio. It allows local churches to be involved in publishing bible passages.
"If people never hear of us, they'll be ok," Money said. "But if they heave hear of Jesus Christ, they are missing what God has for them."
Clifford said their church became involved with the Bearing Precious Seed ministry shortly after hearing a missionary speak more than 20 years ago. When he learned about Seedline a few years ago, he moved to get his church involved.
He hopes the church is able to raise the money necessary to purchase the equipment needed to assemble books more often than once a year.
He said they needed $15,000 to finish paying for the materials for this week, buying the equipment and having some seed money for their next project.
"If someone wants to donate or to volunteer the next time we do this, they can just call me," Clifford said.
Volunteers at the church are spending the week putting together books comprised of biblical books John and Romans to be sent to missionaries in Haiti as part of their mission outreach.
"We may never have our footprints in Haiti, but we'll have our fingerprints there," said Joe Clifford, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church.
The church committed to making 40,000 books by the end of the week, with between 30 and 40 volunteers working 12 hours a day to complete the task. As of mid-afternoon Wednesday, they'd already completed 25,000 copies.
The paper books cost as little as 10 cents to make, said Dale Money, representative for Seedline, the organization that prints the pages, but the churches assemble them for distribution.
Money said that Seedline actually prints three different books to for distribution, the one containing only Romans and John that Immanuel Baptist Church was producing, the New Testament and the entire bible.
Romans and John were chosen because they are evangelistic in nature and because they contain most of the major biblical doctrines, Money said.
This is the third year members of the church have participated in the Seedline ministry. The first year they finished 11,000 books and last year they completed 30,000, Clifford said.
Seedline is a part of the Bearing Precious Seed ministry of First Baptist Church in Milford, Ohio. It allows local churches to be involved in publishing bible passages.
"If people never hear of us, they'll be ok," Money said. "But if they heave hear of Jesus Christ, they are missing what God has for them."
Clifford said their church became involved with the Bearing Precious Seed ministry shortly after hearing a missionary speak more than 20 years ago. When he learned about Seedline a few years ago, he moved to get his church involved.
He hopes the church is able to raise the money necessary to purchase the equipment needed to assemble books more often than once a year.
He said they needed $15,000 to finish paying for the materials for this week, buying the equipment and having some seed money for their next project.
"If someone wants to donate or to volunteer the next time we do this, they can just call me," Clifford said.