WE WANT TRACTS TO DISTRIBUTE

Probably because the Gospel Tract Centre was listed in the Directory of Christian Publishers as a publisher of tracts in many languages, and we did not hesitate to take on short notice the job of printing and folding large orders of tracts in various languages for the cost of materials only, we were often asked to do just that. Our basic tract that we supplied for that type of order was the one titled , "What Must I Do to be Saved?" That being the case, I was not surprised to be invited to set up a table for a one day Christian Conference at one of the Universities in Pretoria. There was a large hall and were many displays of materials that were available. Pretoria is one of the three capitols of South Africa and is not far from Johannesburg. It was a blessed day. The Christian group at the Universities have a custom of encouraging Christian student groups to make trips to the near by countries or homeland areas during College breaks. On these trips they will probably camp in tents and during the day go out to distribute tracts and other materials, coming together for an evening time of teaching, worship and praise. Their enthusiasm for the Lord, and their music usually guarantee a large attendance.

Because we knew about this custom, We were not at all surprised to receive a phone call asking for tracts that they could distribute. They would pick them up, and in this case wanted English, Portuguese, Afrikaans, and Zulu versions. Mostly Zulu and Portuguese. A group was going to Mozambique, and another to Zululand. In total they wanted 17,000 tracts and they wanted them in a week's time. Fine, the Risograph printed copies rapidly, and the folder would make those folds in one pass. I already had the "master copies" done on the computer's lazer printer and stored in my master files.

Another similar order came from an Indian evangelist for tracts to distribute at the entrance of their community just South of Alberton. He wanted English, but thousands of them. What was not distributed by his people at the entrance would be distributed at his tent meetings.