Director's Outlook

It has been a privilege for me to serve the Bible cause since 1982.  I think what has kept me going through so many ups and downs; times of encouragement and times of failure are two things.  The first is the encouragement that I receive from a book called the Bible.  If there was ever one verse that speaks to my heart it is Romans 15.4, which is often used on Bible Sunday.

 “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that I, through the patience and comfort (encouragement) of the Scriptures might have hope.” 

I have found in so many situations that as I have looked up, I have found that hope.  I bring Jesus Christ into every situation in life that I have faced.  Over the past 28 years, there have been numerous crises. Yet, God has come by my side, and offered hope.

The second factor that is important in my life is the encouragement, the thrill, the joy of working with people, especially God’s people.  I have found people to be marred by sin, lacking in grace, selfish but I have also found periods of time when great grace, and love, and forgiveness has spoken volumes to me.

It is wonderful to be part of a great cause, a great ministry, and to serve the living God in a small piece of His wide world.  To believe in the Person of Jesus Christ, Creator and Redeemer, who took a young, shy, introverted, insecure man and allowed him to serve an organization as broad and wide as the Bible Society – what a thrill and a blessing.

Corrie Ten Boom, a death camp survivor of World War 2 tells a story.  Her ministry took her around the world.  She was uncomfortable accepting the many words of praise and affirmation.  One night she was praying about this, she asked the Lord what she should do.  God’s answer was to accept the tributes much as one would accept flowers, gather them up, and then at the end of the day give the collected “bouquet” back to Him.  In laying the bouquet at the feet of the One to Whom they rightfully belonged, her heart was at peace and I follow her example.

In His Service,

Dale Broadworth