Which will you buy? That was the challenge UCCF presented to its supporters earlier this year — well, sort of. 59p will buy you a tin of Tesco Organic Baked Beans, but it’s also the cost of putting a copy of Mark’s Gospel in the hands of a non-Christian student. It’s all linked to ‘FREE’, our project to distribute 400,000 copies of Mark on university campuses across the Britain in the coming academic year.
We’ve got nothing against Tesco’s baked beans, but we think that Mark’s Gospel will do students more good. Our supporters seem to agree.
Pouring in
Within days of announcing our plans for ‘FREE’ and inviting people to become partners in the project through their prayers and gifts, money started to pour into the Leicester office. In less than six weeks, our original budget target had been met and money kept coming. Since setting that budget, however, two significant things have happened.
