December 2016 Annual Report
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<strong>2016</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Spiritual Fertilizer<br />
Spreading the Gospel in Creative Ways<br />
Above: ICC installed an underground<br />
printing press in a Muslim country.<br />
This year, it printed 70,000 Bibles!<br />
Scripture is God’s fertilizer for the Church.<br />
Wherever it goes, the Church grows and its<br />
roots deepen. In <strong>2016</strong>, ICC used a variety of<br />
exciting ways to provide access to Scripture.<br />
In one country, USB drives with Scripture<br />
and various types of literature are smuggled<br />
in through remote-controlled drones. In the<br />
same country, hunger is a major issue, so<br />
the Gospel and small portions of Scripture<br />
are put into bottles filled with rice and floated<br />
down river! Who knew a “message in a<br />
bottle” approach could be so successful?<br />
Occasionally, we also install underground<br />
printing presses in countries where it is too<br />
difficult to smuggle in Bibles. We installed<br />
the press above in late 2015 and it started<br />
printing Bibles this past year for the growing<br />
underground community in one Muslim<br />
country. This printing press will provide<br />
Muslim-background believers (MBBs) with<br />
unprecedented access to the Gospel.<br />
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