Imagine not having your own Bible! There are lots of people all over the world less fortunate than us who don’t have access to God's Word.
At Bible Society New Zealand, we’re about getting Bibles into the hands and hearts of those people. http://biblesociety.org.nz/bible-needs/ To help achieve that, we’re sending a boat load of Bibles to the South Pacific to distribute around the remote islands to people will receive God’s life changing message for the first time.
We wanted to share this unique mission experience with you, so we conducted a nationwide search to find someone with a real heart for mission to help us deliver the Bibles and share the adventure with you.
After a long process sorting though more than 500 applications and much prayerful consideration we’re pleased to congratulate Bridgette Moffat on being chosen to go on the mission adventure. Bridgette has an incredible heart for mission and is already making a huge difference helping change lives in her church and community.
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| Bridgette was super excited when we told her she’d been chosen to go on the mission adventure. |
Bridgette was able to choose one person to take with her on the trip. Rather than take someone she knows she has graciously chosen to take another candidate who was short listed.
So we’d also like to congratulate Heather Penman who will be joining Bridgette on the mission adventure.
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| Heather is a youth leader from Auckland. |
Both Bridgette and Heather have a strong passion to serve so we know they’ll have a huge impact not only in the South Pacific but also in their own communities.
We’ll fly Bridgette and Heather to the South Pacific, where they’ll join the experienced crew of the yacht 'Seahawk' and have the opportunity to visit remote islands to deliver Gods life changing message.
As they travel they’ll share their thoughts and experiences with us and we’ll post them here and on Facebook for you to follow along so we’ll all get the chance to be part of something bigger and see the direct effects of spreading God's Word to those who don’t own it.
The girls will be flying to Fiji on 18 August to join the Seahawk. They'll be on board till 29 August, visiting the islands of Levuka and Gau.
Get a taste for what Bridgette and Heather might experience on the trip – check out this clip:
Read more about Bridgette and Heather on our Mission Adventure Blog
Find out more about Bridgette and follow her adventure
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Follow them both on Facebook
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Press release: Mission winners annouced. Read the full article.
Change Lives Today
We still would have loved to have been able to send more people on this trip but we always knew that wasn’t possible, which is why we also created a ‘Change Lives Today’ page on Facebook that includes practical challenges on putting God’s Word into action and encourages people to share their experiences and ideas to inspire others.
Obviously we recognise that it’s not just the South Pacific that needs our help to change lives, we can start right here at home in our own back yards. The page is a way for people to share their passion and help change lives every day with those around them. We hope the page will provoke life changing action in New Zealand and show young Christians how to put God’s Word into action in their own back yards every day.
