wfn.org | Adventist News Network: Youth Set Bible-Copying Record in Chile

["Beckett, John" <BeckettJ@gc.adventist.org>]

ANN Bulletin
Adventist News Network
www.adventist.org
Seventh-day Adventist Church World Headquarters
January 23, 2002

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Youth Set Bible-Copying Record in Chile 
Picarquin, Chile .... [ANN]
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More that 6,000 Seventh-day Adventist youth set a world record by writing
out the Bible in 16 minutes in Picarquin, Chile, during a youth rally
January 7 to 12.

The hand-written Bible, its pages stacked several feet high, was presented
as a gift to the National Library of Chile. A notice will also be sent to
the Guinness Book of World Records. Each participant, including the city's
mayor, wrote six Bible verses. 
Among the writers was a paraplegic who wrote by holding his pen in his
mouth. He completed his section, which included his favorite Bible verse:
Philippians 4:13--"I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."

Some 6,200 youth delegates attended the congress, traveling from across
South America, Cuba, and the United States. The delegates participated in
community service by singing in city squares, cleaning streets, passing out
bags for garbage, and donating blood. According to organizers, the youth
attended seminars aimed at preparing them as leaders in their local
churches, teaching them skills to "meet the needs of the new century." 

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