We passed out books here at a rehab center in Ensenada in November, 2015. As before, the guys were really excited to get the books and wanted to make sure they didn't miss out.
Here the youth are passing out Great Controversies we provided in the town of Rosarito, just south of Tijuana.
This is the front of a Mexican Army base in Tecate, BC. We gave them Great Controversies before for all the personnel on the base, and handed out Great Controversies to individual units that were around Tecate. We cannot show the pictures of the soldiers on the internet as it would endanger their lives.
This day we gave out 130 Great Controversies at the rehab center in Aguas de Ojos near Tijuana. I had guys running after me and reaching down from high rooftops to make sure they got a book. They really wanted the books and you can see in the picture to the right of this one that they started reading them right away. How could you deny these guys some books when they have such desire to read them? The same day we passed out our new business cards and left some with the director. We have started to hear from patients who want to continue their bible studies with us after they get out of rehab.
In June, 2015, we gave out 140 books at this rehab center in 1 hour, and two days later 130 people showed up for bible studies (a picture of them two days later is on the right of the picture above. As of December, 2015 we are still going to that rehab center every week and giving bible studies.
Passing Out Books
We gave out 200 Great Controversies and 200 Steps to Christ at this Police Academy over 2 trips. Every person, including the director, staff, instructors and cadets took a GC. We have books set aside to go back in the near future to start a group bible study on Desire of Ages and distribute the Desire of Ages to everyone at the academy at the same time. Again, we cannot show pictures of the cadets or staff on the internet for their safety.
This is one of the guys at the Aguas de Ojos rehab center deeply searching the words of the Great Controversy right after getting one. It is really worth it to get Great Controversies to these searching, sincere souls.
We cannot show faces of police officers we have given books to on the internet for their safety, but every police officer in Tecate has a Great Controversy, a Desire of Ages, and a Steps to Christ. This picture is from when we were invited into the Central Police Station in Tecate and gave out over 100 GC's to police officers. On a later trip we gave the Commandante, or Chief of Police, of Tecate 3 Desire of Ages books for himself and his family. We had officers asking for books for their relatives which we gave them. We have given these books to whole stations of Federal Police officers too (Federales) and officers out in the field. We have given about 100 GC's to members of the Mexican Army, including an entire base in Tecate.
On this trip, 10 of us went to Tecate, including several youth. Here is one of the girls offering Steps to Christ and the Great Controversy to someone.
Here an elder's wife and I passed out books in two colonies (neighborhoods). We got out about 75 books going door to door over a few hours. This was important because the elder and his wife know the people in this area and have a stronger relationship with the people in these neighborhoods than just anyone.
Currently we have someone in Baja California Norte handing out these gift bags with books, including the Great Controversy, to all public school teachers, doctors, dentists and lawyers in the state. One school teacher recently said "What a beautiful gift. Thank you so much for thinking of us. No one ever recognized us by giving us a gift before."
We passed out books at this rehab center for boys aged 12-18 in Ensenada. Every person at the rehab center took a book, including the Director and Psychologist (about 40 people). Here the kids are reading their books right afterwards.