'Truth for Youth' brings Bibles to public schools

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'Truth for Youth' brings Bibles to public schools

For the sixth year, Revival Fires Ministries is sponsoring Truth for Youth Week. The week-long program puts a special emphasis on getting New Testament Bibles into American schools.



This year's goal is 60,000 giveaways, distributed by the students themselves through a special "free-of-charge" incentive. The Bibles consist, among other things, of a New Testament in the "God's Word" translation and 100 pages of color comics with stories addressing issues such as evolution, homosexuality, abortion, sorcery and witchcraft, and drug and alcohol abuse.

One Bible is given to each family, and students only need to promise to give it to an unsaved friend in school. Revival Fires Ministries founder Tim Todd says some one-million Truth for Youth Bibles have been given away thus far, with thousands of students receiving salvation as a result.

He says he was moved to come up with a Bible for students in American schools after a conversation with the Russian minister of education for public schools during an evangelistic outreach more than six years ago.

"Through an interpreter, he said, 'Young man, what kind of a Bible project does America have for the public schools of your nation?' We had to hang our heads low and I told him, 'Russia put God in school, but America kicked God out,'" says Todd.

From that meeting, Todd says the burden to reach 53.8 million American public school youth with God's Word became a top priority, and the Truth for Youth Bible program developed. It is made available for free to teenagers and at a discount bulk rate during Truth for Youth Week in August each year from TheTruthforYouth.com website.

Todd claims that 40 million American students do not have a Bible, effectively making public schools one of America's biggest mission fields. In addition, the back of the Truth for Youth Bibles displays a list of legal student rights on public campuses, in an effort to help restore religious freedom in public schools.