Source: Eternity News, April 29, 2022
“The church filled up with standing room only and there were many more sitting outside under the shade of the trees on blankets as children ran around,” says Louise Sherman, Bible Society Australia’s Production Coordinator [for] Remote & Indigenous Ministry Support who had brought in boxes of freshly printed Bibles for the event.
Just before 4:30pm, a large contingent of local elders carried in the boxes of Bibles to traditional chanting and clapsticks. Women and children danced and did Bible readings as a fire was lighted near the entrance as a symbol of the importance of fire to the Gumatj clan as well as representing the Holy Spirit.
“When it came time for me to open the box and hand out the Bibles, all the translators and their families came down to the front,” Louise says. “As I gave each person the Bible, their faces lit up, and tears of joy could be seen from many—and there was a wonderful sense of unity.”
After the service everyone moved outside for dinner, followed by a rally with preaching and worship music continuing late into the night.
Read the full story, which comes to us from Yirrkala, a community in Australia’s Northern Territory. A beautiful picture of how we might receive the Word of God.
Also from Eternity News, read the testimony of Hadija, a Muslim woman from the Caucasus in Southern Russia who experienced the grace of Jesus, in part through the witness of a Ukrainian Christian.