PITTSBURGH (AP) — A religious group plans to distribute 250,000 Pittsburgh-themed copies of the New Testament in advertising pouches delivered with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper.
CityReachers Pittsburgh, a program of the International Bible Society in Colorado Springs, Colo., is set to send the books Sept. 7 to the paper's subscribers in Allegheny County and some border communities.
The group has delivered custom-designed Bibles to newspaper subscribers in several other cities across the country. Last month, the group distributed 140,000 copies in the Philadelphia area.
In Pittsburgh, the New Testament copies will have a front cover showing the city's Golden Triangle, where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers form the Ohio River, and a photograph of Steelers football players kneeling in prayer on the back cover.
So far, the organization has raised just $350,000 of the $625,000 needed to distribute the publications. It has until May 31 to raise the remaining money to meet a printing deadline.
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Maybe someone will become born-again because of the effort of these people.