Fresh back from a trip to China, the national director of the Canadian Bible Society was thrilled to join with his colleagues from around the world to celebrate the 20 millionth copy of the Bible to roll off the Amity Press in Nanjing. In operation since 1988, Amity Press is a printing house in China founded and supported by the United Bible Societies to produce Bibles. But we believe the Bible tells us to submit to the established authorities. As head of the Canadian Bible Society for the past two years, Bailey had wanted to visit Amity Press for himself and to speak directly with Chinese Christians about how easy it is buy Bibles, and to ask whether ordinary Christians were concerned about secret police observing their purchases. Taking his questions to Christian believers, students, pastors and people on the street, he discovered little fear.
People are very open and talk freely.
Bailey acknowledges that he saw only a small part of a huge country. We are working openly among the population, printing and distributing Bibles to a church hungry for the Word of the living God.