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Trinitarian Bible Society – Quarterly RecordThe Treasuryby David J. BroomeResources DirectorIt is with humble thankfulness to the Lord that we are able to report what greatthings He has done for the Society already this year, whereof we are glad(cf. Psalm 126.3).We wrote about the Diamond Jubilee Project in Quarterly Record 599 earlier in the year,and since then substantial donations have been given for this project; we are mostgrateful for these generous gifts. Of the 35,000 Diamond Jubilee Bibles published,the majority have been distributed to schools and prisons in the UK. A further 10,000Bibles are on order and should be available by the time you read this.We acknowledge, thankfully, the Lord’s rich provision through the instrumentality ofseveral key partners: the Society’s branch in Canada, the Gereformeerde Bijbelstichtingin the Netherlands and the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Their importantfinancial contributions mean that we have recently been able to place print ordersfor 20,000 Eastern Armenian Bibles and 26,000 Ndebele Bibles (for Zimbabwe). Inaddition, we have ordered 5,100 Maori Bibles, funded by our brethren in the Society’sNew Zealand branch, for those who speak the native language of that land. All of theseBibles have been many years in preparation.So, these are times of rejoicing for the Society. We pray that these Scriptures will notonly safely reach the hands of those to whom they are sent, but more importantly thatthe Word of God will penetrate hearts. May many sinners, as yet only possessing theold nature of sin, find that the Word of God is mighty ‘to the pulling down of strongholds’ (2 Corinthians 10.4) of self, Satan and the world, and to the building of ‘a spiritualhouse’ (1 Peter 2.5).We are deeply grateful for all the donations we receive, whatever the amount. As werealise that some of our donors wish to give to specific projects, we felt it might beuseful to name the following languages in which we have definite ongoing projectsthat would benefit from funding, either to further translation work or to grant Biblesor portions of Scripture once published: Amharic (Ethiopia), Chinese, Dan/Gio (Liberia),Farsi, French, Hebrew, Mongolian, Nepali, Romanian, Shona (Zimbabwe) and Spanish.20