Gospel News — Jun-Aug 2012

and most Cubans aren't online. Cell phones are available only for certain people and most Cubans don't have one. So all communication with our brethren has to be by snail mail, which is very slow, about a month each way- if it ever gets through [sometimes it doesn't at all].

`A' is an energetic man with a real heart for God. Having committed himself to Christ, he began reading the Bible, and has a great familiarity with the text. They have six books in their humble home- three of which are Bibles and the others Bible Basics and Introducing Bible Basics. As he read the Bible, `A' realized he must be baptized, but the churches in Cuba seem to treat baptism as an entry rite into their denomination. They demanded he tithe to them if he were baptized, which `A' declined to do as he felt it wasn't required by the Bible. They demanded he accept all their doctrines, which `A' couldn't do- as he found the Trinity to be lacking in Biblical support. `A' heard of a man in another church who had baptized himself and then his family. `A' located him in the hope he would baptize him- but the man had been disfellowshipped from the church for doing this, and had now repented of baptizing people [!!] and returned to the church, promising never to baptize anyone again. `A' asked God to lead him to someone to baptize him and to explain the Gospel more fully.

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`A' had a brief opportunity to get online and figure out how to use the internet- and he used it for 30 minutes. Bear in mind there's a five year jail term for illegal access to the internet. He valued every minute of it, and spent those valuable minutes surfing the net looking for information about the Trinity and Biblical alternatives to it. By grace he was led to Carelinks.net and then biblebasicsonline. com and filled out the form requesting the literature. We get hundreds of requests each day and send a standard email to all enquirers asking them to confirm their interest. Those who don't insert email addresses don't get anything sent to them. But having a request from Cuba caught our eye in the inbox. We decided to send this person a Bible Basics anyway. Our mission is to spread the Gospel to new areas where the Truth hasn't been widely distributed, and so we thought that in any case it would be good to send a book there.