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Married at 15 and finding herself begging on the streets of Serbia to survive, Biljana knew the harsh realities of life as a Roma in the Balkans. What a testimony to God's grace that she is now a pastor's wife, Christian children's worker and author. Through training and support by Bob Hitching and Roma Bible Union (RBU), Biljana wrote a children's book, The Cat and the Custard, a modern parable to illustrate the biblical truth, "be sure your sin will find you out." Biljana and her family traveled throughout Serbia on our "Roma Decade of the Book" tour where her book and three other RBU books were distributed and hundreds of Roma, both children and adults, were challenged to read. (She and I were interviewed for TV in two different towns.) "It's good to read!" was our motto as we challenged our listeners to read the Bible and good Christian books, become writers themselves, become Bible translators and seek increased education.
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| | | The Roma Decade of the Book is a special initiative of Roma Bible Union to bring greater levels of reading in the Roma communities of central and eastern Europe, beginning in Serbia, Croatia and Hungary. It began in 2014 and will run until 2024. RBU has been busy training writers and producing Christian books and literature for Roma and by Roma. We know that without reading, there is no education, and without education there is very little chance of employment. Our hearts' desire is to see thousands of Roma families reading this Christian literature, and especially the Bible, in their heart language.
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| ROMA DECADE OF THE BOOK
SERBIA TOUR BY THE NUMBERS
1,400 miles on the road
13 teammates traveling
6 Roma churches visited
5 additional villages visited
16,000 books delivered
600 Roma attending meetings
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