The statistics are alarming . . . and heartbreaking.  Of the 53 million children attending public schools in America today, 92% are receiving no moral or spiritual instruction from the Bible at all.  Nearly half of these children have no regular contact with a local church and have never heard an adult personally read a single verse of Scripture to them.  Twenty-one million American children live in homes with no biological father, and one-and-a-half million children are without a parent due to incarceration

It should come as no surprise, then, that on an average day in this country:

8,441 teenagers become sexually active, and 2,756 teenage girls become pregnant;

603 children are arrested for drug or alcohol abuse;

 248 children are arrested for violent crimes;

 2,250 students drop out of school; and

 16 young people commit suicide.

The burden of CBM Ministries of the Great Southwest is to confront the moral and spiritual bankruptcy threatening the lives and, more importantly, the eternal destinies of young people throughout Oklahoma, Texas, and the surrounding states with the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ.  Through the ministry of Released Time Bible Classes, hundreds of public school students each month are able to hear and respond to the wonderful message of God’s love and forgiveness.

      Our outreach began in the fall of 1996, with two students in a small school outside Ponca City, OK; by the following spring, 18 students were enrolled in Released Time.  The next year, we had the privilege 

 

 

 

                                                       Scott Brinson