Here is the story of our old Bibles
being transported by Mark and Mands Vernon.
We are so excited to have our new Bibles in our new venues, but what a joy to know our old bibles are being used by Christians in The Gambia.
Mark Vernon with our old Bibles 
Mark Vernon taking the old Bibles 
Counting the Bibles 
We paid the handling fee to the shipping company, then embarked on a long series of negotiations with customs officials. Mands was very patient and calm, first offer of £100 seemed quite a lot for second hand bibles, at the next round we got to about £30, which was more reasonable, but still more than expected. The third round, and about 40 minutes later, we agreed on £5! Well worth the discussion! 
Again at Banjul Airport, whole process was about an hour and a half and involved 8 steps, and 5 different people 
Transporting the bibles to different places 
Giving out the first few Bibles to the new SOW students 
Giving out the first few Bibles to the new SOW students 
Adriano is a former student at SOW, also a pastor in his village church. We gave him 12 Bibles to use with his youth Discipleship group 
Here is Adriano’s youth group using the Bibles for their Discipleship class in Pirang village 
A few more bibles have been given out to this new Discipleship group, which just started this month. 
A few more bibles have been given out to this new Discipleship group, which just started this month.
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