There are 200 bicycles stored here in the UMC airplane hanger in the Congolese city of Lubumbashi located in the Southern Congo Episcopal Area.

Two hundred tribal language bibles plus these 200 bikes will soon be shipped to the five annual conferences across this Episcopal Area, the largest in the UMC with one million members.

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This is an article from UM Communication which was featured on the UMC website about the Bikes and Bibles ministry as it was applied in 2015 in Sierra Leone, a West African country and Annual Conference.  The article can be read by clicking here.

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This is a great article written by UM Communications and featured on the UMC website. The article is about local pastors in Africa – the kind of pastors provided bikes and bibles. The article tells of one such pastor who has income of $140 a month. The article can be read by clicking here.

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Congo Trip 2015 | Rurel Ausley from Crosspoint on Vimeo.

Rev. Rurel Ausley’s sermon/report to his congregation at Crosspoint UMC about the church construction and bike and bible distribution in North Katanga Annual Conference, the largest in the UMC.

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Table with bibles in local language distributed to the district superintendents for delivery to their pastors. Bishop John Innis prays over the bible distribution and the bike distribution. Also, the white packages are boxes of 4 bicycles each to be carried by the district superintendents to rural areas. There is a picture of an assembled bike as an example.

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