GOOD NEWS for Everyone! is the new ministry name for the charity that was formerly known as ‘GideonsUK’. The charity distributes free Bibles across the UK, free of charge, with over 750,000 sent each year resulting in numerous testimonies from people coming to faith as a result. In this new chapter for the ministry and is now seeking new people to join the membership to continue its important work that has been happening in the UK for over 70 years. As well as the new name, GOOD NEWS for Everyone! has recently made several significant changes in its Association, including inviting women alongside men as full members; creating new resources, such as the HOPE gospel magazine and developing its international outreach through planting the ministry into new nations. With a membership consisting of over 3,500 members, GOOD NEWS for Everyone! represents a wide range of denominations and backgrounds - all with a passion to understand and explore Scripture; to live lives of prayer; to be compassionate and generous, and to be a witness to God’s goodness.
Bibles are placed and presented by members in schools, hospitals, hotel rooms, care homes, prisons, sports teams (such as rugby and football), the Armed Forces, and in many other areas of everyday life, and it continues to look for opportunities to place Scriptures in all sorts of locations.
Welcoming women as members One of our most significant changes has been the opening of its work for both men and women to join in their own right and on the same basis. The commitment of GOOD NEWS for Everyone! to share God’s Word far and wide remains the same: to provide every Christian – men and women alike – an equal opportunity to respond.
VALERIE – MEMBER STORY I have been a member of GOOD NEWS for Everyone! for approximately two years. Being a member enables me to have copies of God’s Word readily available, in order to bless others with the living and enduring Word of God which gives hope and strength.
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, I was working at a local hospital, where our branch regularly placed Bibles and HOPE gospel magazines on a free spiritual resources table, located in the main corridor of the hospital. I was astonished one day, to discover from one of the chaplains that patients, visitors, as well as staff members had helped themselves to over 1,000 Bibles from the table during this time. We rejoiced at how God was obviously working in the lives of people at a time of great fear and uncertainty, bringing hope to them through His Word. Equally popular were the beautifully illustrated HOPE magazines, containing Bible verses of hope and encouragement. Amazingly, the chaplain’s last request was to order double the number of HOPE magazines, as apparently “they keep running out!” This passion and love for Christ is the unifying force throughout GOOD NEWS for Everyone! and being with like-minded committed people spurs you on to take steps of faith, and to ‘step out of your comfort zone’, taking risks in the Name of the Lord. As a result, your faith, trust and confidence in God grows. He is able to take the weakest, most insignificant person and do extraordinary things in and through their lives.
