Scripture engagement leads to knowing God—and lives changed forever. Now more than ever, Americans need to know God’s Word and the hope we have in its transformative message. The State of the Bible is a yearly, in-depth study, asking Americans their opinions and practices relating to the Bible, all made possible by generous supporters like you.
These Bible insights can provide critical information and give you direction for your Biblical ministry to help better serve the needs of people in your community.
“I tried to look for God.”
Marco* grew up in an extremely violent home. His father and mother brutally beat him and his siblings. But Marco thought there might be a better life possible.“When I was 11 years old, I tried to look for God,” he says. He went to church for a short time, but when his father found out, he wouldn’t let him go…
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“This Bible is everything to me . . .”
There was nothing for Carlos* to go home to . . . except brutal beatings.The young boy’s stepfather beat him viciously and repeatedly. One time it was so bad that Carlos ended up in the hospital. After that, he fled home to live on the streets in the slums of Panama.The streets were no better place for a boy. Carlos…
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A Soul Saved from a Life of Crime
Mario* was just 6 years old when he joined a gang in Central America. Abandoned by his mother and violently abused by his father, he longed for a ‘family,’ and the gang took him in. He began with shoplifting and other minor thefts, and by age 12 he was arrested by the authorities and placed in a rehabilitation shelter for…
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Bible-Based Trauma Healing for Violence-Ridden El Salvador
Thanks to a Bible-based trauma healing ministry in El Salvador, God has done a mighty work in many lives!On average: 25,000 gang members in the streets, plus another 9,000 in jail1 girl or woman killed every 18 hours 9 out of 10 businesses are being extortedIn 2018, Bible-based trauma healing was introduced in El Salvador to help people cope with…
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Linked with God’s Mission
Seventeen-year-old Bryan grew up in a Christian family in Guatemala. But it was a Bible he received that helped him make his family’s faith his own.“We served God, we worshipped Him, and every day we lived preaching our testimony, but it was not until November 27, 2018 that God called my sister and I to read the Bible together as…
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At-Risk Children in Central America Transformed by God’s Word
With all his siblings in gangs, it was almost a certainty that Raul*, now 11, would follow in their footsteps.“At 9 years old, I started doing drugs and got into a gang,” Raul says. “I stole. I got into street fights.”After being arrested and sent to a children’s shelter, he was introduced to God’s Word. Thanks to the generosity of…
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