“Libraries change lives!”

“Writing Competition”

“Write a short story about how libraries changed your life to be in to win a fabulous prize pack of electronic vouchers and books.”

A library is “a room or building where books and other literary materials are kept.”

KAITAIA PUBLIC LIBRARY

According to that definition of the Collins English Dictionary “my room” is small library and our living room is also a small library. Although we don’t have all that many books in our house, we have one book that really changed my whole life. And that book is the BIBLE!

I still remember when the Bible was like any other book on the book shelf. But the time came, when the Holy Spirit, the author of the Scriptures, made the Bible alive for me.

From that time on I went to a Bible school, applied to a Missionary Society, went to Thailand and worked there as a missionary. In 1980 I did more studies at the Bible College of New Zealand, as it was called at that time.

At the beginning of 1981 I joined the United Maori Mission (UMM) and worked in Kaikohe as a missionary for almost 25 years until my retirement.

\Whenever I enter a public library I am wondering if I find THE BOOK OF BOOKS, the Bible, among the many books.