HELP US PROVIDE TRUTH FOR YOUTH BIBLES TO BE DISTRIBUTED
TO UNSAVED TEENAGERS IN AMERICA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Help us bring the message of the Gospel to America’s youth and counter the ill effect of the liberal agenda being promoted aggressively in America’s public schools by helping to provide Truth for Youth Bibles for every teenager in the United States.
The Truth for Youth consists of the entire New Testament in the God's Word Translation along with 100 pages of powerful, full color comic stories that present the "absolute truth" about issues that young people are confronted with, such as: Sexual Purity, Sorcery & Witchcraft, Homosexuality, Abortion, Pornography, Drug Addiction, Drunkenness, Peer Pressure, School Violence, and Secular Rock Music. God's wonderful plan of salvation is incorporated into each of the stories.
The Truth for Youth is given to every teenager who commits to give the Bibles to their unsaved friends in school. One million Truth for Youth have already been distributed and thousands of young people are receiving Christ through these efforts.
One goal for giving the Truth for Youth to teenagers is to restore religious freedoms in public school. The main goal of the Truth for Youth, however, is to bring the message of the Gospel to America’s young people so they might receive Christ and become His disciples. Revival Fires International has made reaching the 53.8 million youth in America’s public schools with the truth of God’s Word a top priority.
The Truth for Youth cost only $2.00 each and there are 50 bibles to a case. Yes Brother Todd, I will sponsor Truth for Youth Bibles for Christian young people to give away to unsaved friends in school.
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Revival Fires International and American Family Association send Truth For Youth Bibles around the globe.
Randall Murphree, Associate Editor, AFA Journal
A million Bibles, a million teenagers and who can imagine how many changed lives. The impact is immeasurable. For the fifth year, American Family Association (AFA) is partnering with Truth for Youth (TFY) distributing free Bibles for Christian teens to share with unsaved friends. American Family Radio, AFA’s180-station network will host TFY founder Tim Todd in studio August 7-11 to encourage listeners to order the free Bibles.
"We give The TFY Bibles to teenagers in revival services, evangelistic crusades, television, radio and on the Internet," said Todd, evangelist and Executive Director of Revival Fires International. "The biggest distribution outlet is each August on American Family Radio." To date, TFY has distributed more than one million Bibles.
Teens Choose Life
During last year’s AFA campaign, Todd received an E-mail message from a teenager in Australia. "This is what it’s all about," Todd said. The young man wrote:
I used to be heavily entrenched in satanism, due to my parents’ involvement in witchcraft. I didn't know any better until I received a copy of your Bible while I was overseas. Somebody heard you on AFR radio and got the Bible and gave it to me. Jesus saved me, and I will be ordering more Bibles so more of my classmates, whom I had unfortunately convinced to leave religion, can be saved!
Todd said he relies heavily on God’s promise in Isaiah 55:11 – "[My Word] will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Time and time again, he sees that promise fulfilled.
One of Todd’s favorite stories comes from a revival he was preaching in McAllen, Texas. Teenager Shelley O’Brien had taken a TFY Bible and given it to Alex Perez, a gang leader. She also invited Alex to her church. Alex came to hear Tim preach that night, and he got saved.
Alex Perez and his entire gang from McAllen, Texas came to the Lord after one bold teenager was willing to give Alex a copy of the Truth for Youth!
The young gang leader told the congregation, "I have found real peace. I’m going to invite my entire gang to come with me tomorrow night. Pray they will come and get saved, too."
The next day, Alex told the pastor, "I gave a Bible to each of my gang and they all agreed to come to the revival tonight." Sure enough, that night, in walked Alex with all of his gang. When the invitation was given, all eleven came forward, fell to their knees and gave their lives to Christ.
"Think about it," Todd said. "One bold young lady gave one Bible to one gang leader and an entire gang was saved!"
Todd explains the incident that inspired the Truth for Youth program: "In September, 1991, I joined my dad, Dr. Cecil Todd, for a meeting with the Ministry of Education in charge of all of the public schools of Russia. In this meeting we were granted the approval, endorsement and encouragement to distribute Bibles as text books in the public schools of Russia."
In that meeting, Minister Vladimir Saprykin asked, "What kind of a Bible project do you have for the public schools of America?" Saddened to have to tell him that America was working hard to keep the Bible out of schools, Tim resolved to try to reverse that course of action.
He tried a grass-roots campaign to restore the Bible and prayer to public schools, but Congress voted down the Religious Freedom Act in 1995. Immediately, Tim took another approach, and The Truth for Youth project was born that September and began offering the slick, attractive paperback New Testaments free to Christian teens who make a commitment to pass them on to unsaved friends.
Teenagers passing out The Truth for Youth to their friends at school
The unique book has the entire New Testament as its anchor, and includes guidelines for starting a Bible club at school, and a copy of students’ legal rights on public school campuses. But the hook for teens is includes original comics section that addresses issues relevant to teens, e.g., abortion, pornography, rock music and school violence.
The 2006 edition includes almost 100 pages of comics featuring characters drawn by the best artists in a style that will appeal to teens. TFY uses the God’s Word Translation (God’s Word to the Nations Bible Society, copyright 1995). The lead comic story is "Hairy Polarity and the Sinister Sorcery Satire," dealing with the occult. (See sidebar.) Another, "Passes and Plays," deals with the truth about safe sex. "Born That Way!" talks about homosexuality.
"These are things kids struggle with every day," Todd said, "and these comics are a format that will grab their attention, then turn them toward Biblical principles and truths."
Last year, even in the midst of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in AFR’s largest listening area, almost 20,000 people called to request a copy of the TFY Bible to pass on to an unsaved high school friend. This year, Todd believes we can triple that number.
Todd chooses teens
One reason Tim Todd has such a passion for teenagers is that he himself knows how lost a kid can be and how God’s power can save.
As a rebellious teen, he was often in trouble at school. His temper earned him suspension for fighting, and he began drinking. Then, one night at a keg party, he was offered a marijuana joint. He thought it made him fit in with the crowd. From there it was downhill all the way for the preacher’s kid.
"The drugs and alcohol were my way in," he said, "but soon they became my way out of dealing with my problems. My dad was a respected minister on nationwide TV, but I didn’t care what my drug use did to his reputation."
To make a long story short, Todd survived auto crashes and drug abuse that would have killed many, but after three experiences that almost took his life, he surrendered his heart to Christ and immediately began to experience what he calls "spiritual heart surgery."
"I highly commend Tim Todd for designing The Truth for Youth Bible," said Michael Reagan. "The spectacular comics deal with important issues that today’s youth are faced with and it is making an eternal impact in our schools and around the country."
"We look forward to the Truth for Youth campaign each August," said AFA President Tim Wildmon. "We know Tim Todd is being used by God to put Truth into the hands of America’s teenagers."
In today’s cultural climate, no one is surprised when people challenge the presence of the Bible on school campuses, but Todd says while teachers may not be able to distribute or recommend the Bible, students can do so on non-instructional time.
"In the event that a young person gets in trouble for giving a Truth for Youth Bible away in school, Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida will represent the young person at no cost," said Todd.
The potential of TFY has not gone unnoticed among other Christian leaders. Among those who have endorsed the project are the late Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ; William Murray, son of atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair; entertainer Pat Boone; and Bishop T. D. Jakes.
One broad goal of The Truth for Youth project is to restore religious freedom to the 53.8 million youth in public schools. However, in his message in the current edition, Todd writes, "The main goal ... is to bring the message of the Gospel to America’s young people so they might receive Christ and become His disciples."
Tim gives the Truth for Youth Bible away in his evangelistic crusades to any teenager willing to give the Bible to their unsaved friends.
