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In its Bible repository in [[South America]], there are hundreds of thousands of random versions and editions of Bibles that it has collected over the years.
In its Bible repository in [[South America]], there are hundreds of thousands of random versions and editions of Bibles that it has collected over the years.
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==Current events==
 
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In 1999, [[ABS]] launched its first major internet ministry, [http://www.forministry.com/ ForMinistry.com], a free church webbuilder.  Since then, it has released many different ministry sites including [http://wwww.shareyourstorynow.org/ ShareYourStoryNow.org] (2006), which allows users to share stories of how the [[Bible]] has changed their life, and enables [[ABS]] employees to share their [[ABS]] mission experiences. 
 
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In 2006, [[ABS]] launched its first television series, [http://www.abspresents.org/ ABS Presents], featuring Dr. Irwin who interviewed various Bible Scholars about current issues in society that relate to [[Christianity]]. 
 
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In December 2006, along with [http://www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=org_larry_frances_jones Larry Jones] and his group [[Feed the Children]], ABS participated in the "largest food distribution effort" in the U.S..  Over 10,000 bundles of food were handed out in one day (consisting of a case of chicken, juices, fruits and vegetable) in [[Harlem]], outside the [[Abyssinian Baptist Church]] on 138th Street.  ABS handed out Bibles to all of the food recipients<ref>[http://www.christiannewstoday.com/CWN_3001.html News Release]</ref>
 
==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 07:05, 5 January 2013

The American Bible Society (ABS) is a group, founded in 1816, that publishes, distributes, and translates the Bible.

In 2000-2001, ABS distributed 4,113,106 Bibles and 8,322,112 copies of the New Testament. They are the translators of the Good News Bible (now officially known as the Good News Translation) and the Contemporary English Version.

ABS is headquartered in New York, where it also maintains an extensive archive of editions of the Bible, many of them rare or otherwise unusual.

The current president of the American Bible Society is Dr. R. Lamar Vest.

History

The American Bible Society celebrated a century of service to China in 1934. Vice President John R. Mott recalled that in 1833 the Society sent $3,000 to Dr. Elijah Coleman Bridgman, first U. S. Protestant missionary to China, to print scriptures in Chinese. As of 1934 the Society had spent $2,897,383 distributing nearly 70,000,000 volumes of Scripture in China.

Housed at its main headquarters in Manhattan, NY, is a museum of ancient and historic bibles dating back as far as the Gutenberg edition, of which, ABS has several pages under protection. The Bible library has editions of scripture in every language, from many counties and regions and spanning nearly six centuries and is the second largest collection of religious books with The Vatican being the largest. ABS often finds and protects found scriptures, sometimes even buying them at auction.

In its Bible repository in South America, there are hundreds of thousands of random versions and editions of Bibles that it has collected over the years.


See also

External Links

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