Wisconsin—The Wisconsin Conference sponsored 20 teams of Adventist clergy and lay members, who traveled to Bulgaria in Nov. 2005 to preach the gospel, partnering with The Quiet Hour and Share Him (formerly Global Evangelism). The Quiet Hour and Share Him provided sermons and seminar resources, logistics, planning, shipping, equipment, and other material sponsorship.

The Quiet Hour and the Wisconsin Conference (churches, schools, and individuals) created LifePax boxes. The large, shoebox-size LifePax were filled with items bought cheaply in the United States, but would meet basic health and hygiene needs: washcloths, soap, toothbrushes and paste, bandages, etc. The Quiet Hour evangelism projects always include a health education component and/or clinic, so this was very much in line with their mission of wholeness in Christ.

In Aug. 2005, Wisconsin Conference church members and Adventist school students filled the LifePax, and shipped a 20-foot container to Sofia, Bulgaria. Upon the container's arrival, Bulgarian church members were given LifePax boxes to distribute. They took the LifePax and a Bulgarian-language Bible door to door, inviting friends and neighbors to the meetings. Once people received the LifePax, filled with much-needed (luxurious to them) items, they became intrigued about the meetings, and the Americans who came to speak. As a result, wonderful things have happened in Bulgaria.

Many lives were changed because of these meetings—the Bulgarian attendees who received assurance of God’s redeeming and transforming love, the people who requested Bible study and baptism, the Bulgarian church members who experienced evangelism in their own communities, the local church officials who saw soul-winning work, and the American team members who sacrificed their time and considerable financial resources to share Jesus Christ’s gospel of grace in Bulgaria.

Christy K. Robinson, The Quiet Hour, Inc. public relations and marketing director