news from greenland
In response to
the call we have each received to take the Gospel into all the world before the
Lord returns, the Bible Basics Follow Up Team have been expanding work into
Greenland and Iceland, where we are unaware that there are any Christadelphians.
Response from Iceland to advertising has been excellent- we now have around 50
contacts studying Bible Basics. Seeing the population is only about
250,000, we found the response quite amazing.
Spurred on by
this, we have sought to advertise on web sites in Greenland, where the
population is even smaller.
We've found that the internet is
only just taking off there, and of course people have never had offers of free
Bible literature put to them before.
Some internet cafes are opening and we are in touch with them with regard to
advertising. Further, the small population there is very closely connected with
each other, and we found a listing of all home pages of Greenlanders - there are
about 30 people in Greenland who have their own private home page. So we've
written to the people and asked if they'd like a pen pal with whom to discuss
the Bible, and whether they'd like us to send them a copy of
Bible Basics.
Our working team have also discovered that the University of Greenland has a
theology faculty - with one lecturer and four students! The way things are going,
most people in Greenland and Iceland who are online and know some English will
have been approached by
us with the offer of the Truth. We've also learnt that there's a major alcohol
problem in these areas, and we are seeking to get our material about "Living
with alcoholism: A Christian Response" [see www.carelinks.net/alcohol.html] translated
into Danish, Icelandic and the Greenland language.
