Friday, August 09, 2013
Over the 4th of July this year, thousands of people along Main Street
in Purcellville, Va., witnessed something beyond the usual festivities: a
local youth group serving free slushies and reading the Bible aloud in
its entirety.
Rich Shipe serves as the Discipleship and Youth Pastor at Blue Ridge Bible Church in northern Virginia. He says he was inspired by a blog post about a Bible reading marathon in Wisconsin, and decided to start a similar project in his own community.
Shipe’s project, which took just over 70 hours, involved reading the Bible from cover to cover without stopping.
“I thought about it as a way to inspire better reading habits among the students and to give them an opportunity to share their faith,” he says.
READ MORE at ReligionToday
Rich Shipe serves as the Discipleship and Youth Pastor at Blue Ridge Bible Church in northern Virginia. He says he was inspired by a blog post about a Bible reading marathon in Wisconsin, and decided to start a similar project in his own community.
Shipe’s project, which took just over 70 hours, involved reading the Bible from cover to cover without stopping.
“I thought about it as a way to inspire better reading habits among the students and to give them an opportunity to share their faith,” he says.
READ MORE at ReligionToday
