Weekend to Remember Approved in CHINA!

Many of you may remember from issues of the “Driver Herald” about a year ago, we told about the project Hal was working on for China. He was asked to capture the “Weekend to Remember” in Dallas and edit it into a set that would then have Chinese subtitles added, so that we could get approval from the Chinese government to hold public conferences in China. That project was finished and sent to China about six months ago, in hopes that we would get approval within the next year. Praise the Lord! We were officially granted an ISBN number that now makes FamilyLife materials legal in China. Below, is an email from Jim and Judy Burrows, our FamilyLife Missionaries in China, with the good news. Thank you for praying!

Kirk & Lynn Murray are a couple who started the process of coming to FamilyLife the same time we did and reported about three months ahead of us. They have become dear friends, and Hal worked directly with Kirk on this project. When Kirk told Hal the good news on Friday, September 9, 2011, he also made this comment: “... you know Hal, this may be one of the reasons God brought the Murrays and Drivers to Little Rock, to help FamilyLife reach potentially billions of Chinese people for Christ.”

Email from Jim & Judy Burrows:

“Dear Kirk,

If you already read Perry’s email, he may have beaten me to the punch. We Got It! We Got the ISBN! meaning the material is approved, and like Perry said below, we have approval even before having the finished product. Also, that means we can do fully public events now since we now have the approved number. We can even use our existing (pre-ISBN) WTR manuals until we have the finished product.

So you can pass this on to Dennis and Bob, that the bi- lingual WTR manual, 9/9/2011, has been approved as is and now legal in the People’s Republic of China. The title of the manual ‘The Real Meaning of Family Life’, we found was the best in translation. WTR, does not communicate to a Chinese audience.

Please give everyone there at Little Rock, Hal Driver, and all the others a big thank you for helping us get to this point. Now we can finally shift out of first gear.

Jim & Judy”

With your faithful prayer and financial support China now has a Biblical blueprint for marriages. Thanks, again, to all of our partners, you who make it possible for us to serve in God’s ministry.