Every year Flying Mission distributes Bibles to patients at Princess Marina Hospital on the 26th December. Around 21 people, FM personnel and friends, met at 9.00am at PMH. Larry Murley, in charge of operations, gave thorough instructions, and by 9.20am we sailed forth with two trolleys packed with New Testaments and sweets. Singing mostly Setswana songs, we walked through the hospital, sharing God's glory with patients by talking with them, praying with them, and with the children, playing with them too! It was a time of mutual blessing for us all.

This year we were handing out Setswana and English New Testaments with an insert: "The message of Jesus Christ and his love for you is the most amazing news that you can hear. We pray that as you read this Gospel, you will want to learn more about this most amazing person in all of history. If you would like to receive a complete bible then please fill in the attached voucher and bring it to Flying Mission Office.  If you wish, we will also give you the first three lessons of a life-changing Bible study course, 'Life to the Full'."

For the first time, we presented the nurses (who helped so much with logistics and fine singing!) with sweets and Christmas text cards. This was at the instigation of Jessica, a former Short Termer, herself working over the Christmas period in an Exeter hospital!

The distribution?  352 Setswana NT’s, 111 English NT’s and 180 bags of sweets with Christmas text cards. So all in all we handed out 463 New Testaments. May God bless the recipients!

A special thank you to Bob Genheimer, from Lesedi Book store, who donated the Setswana New Testaments and travelled the week before Christmas to South Africa to source similar English New Testaments for us!