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Thank you so much for making all this possible!!  Let me give you the story behind the dream and why its a Christmas Miracle!!  For the past 5 years we have been prayer walking through our town, simply listening for the heart of the Father for the people of our town, the plans He has, for every homes and business and our government leaders.  Then one day the “what if question" popped up on our walk…what if we asked town council if we could pray with them every Thursday morning.  So, we went for it, at first, I think they thought it would only be a week or two…but God gave us a passion to be faithful and now 2 years later we are a faithful part of their Thursday mornings!!  We all gather that morning, no one goes out into their jobs until we pray, in fact now they don’t even answer the phones and all customers that come in they have join us!  

We get to share whatever the Lord has revealed on our prayer walk that morning, speak words of encouragement and hope, share from the word and some weeks worship, but every week we intercede together for our town and our nation!  When we began we said, we simply want to lift your arms, encourage you, thank you for all you do for our town and we want to go after the impossible with you.  So, we asked them to share the needs for our town no matter how great or how impossible…and then together with them we took those things to God in prayer….one amazing story is from day one we needed a new trash truck…so each week we prayed week after week for over a year and then the announcement came…somebody donated not just one but two trash trucks…they were astonished at their prayers were answered… their faith was rising!  

Each week we would come and they would already have their list of things to prayer for, even at times they would take us to home to pray for sick individuals, their faith was growing!  We’ve seen the miraculous as one week there was not enough money for payroll but as we prayed the mayor received a call the bank had made a mistake and there was more than enough!!!  Then 6 months ago as we were reading the word, they asked how can we get a Bible like that one?  We can understand it and they loved the word studies, etc.  From that day we prayed that we could get this exact Bible in their hands!!  That’s where you came in. :) Thank you for blessing them with not only a study Bible but for the exact one that they so longed for!!  We were able to give a Bible to each person that works at Town Council, Our Mayor and the Council, some Youth leaders in our Town, some young men and women hungry to know His word, we were able to bless a husband/father who a year ago wouldn’t step foot in a church, but is now coming regularly and was asking for a Bible to read and study...and to top it all off John will be blessing the General with one at his inauguration in a few weeks!  Each Bible had their names and this verse:

"May the God of Hope fill you with ALL joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with Hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13 NIV)

Thank you for blessing so many with Hope!  Thank you for allowing us to give the very Bible they asked for!  That is truly a Christmas Miracle, you went above and beyond to bless their hearts, to them this was God himself answering their cry!  

One of the young men at town council said I’m going home and read to my family tonight!  Another youth leader said this specific Bible is different, the commentary is personal, intimate, you can hear the heart of the father!!   So many have never had their own Bible, they were all so blessed from the mayor to the council, to the workers at town council, to youth leaders, to fathers, and leaders of our nation, wow you have impacted so many lives, so many homes, you have placed the Word of God in the hands of the leaders of our nation!!  Thank you!!