{"id":1351,"date":"2018-07-03T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2018\/07\/03\/how-far-for-a-bible\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T17:48:08","slug":"how-far-for-a-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/how-far-for-a-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far for a Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 July 2018 | Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Wales [Victor Hulbert]&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How far would you be willing to walk to get a Bible?&nbsp; The local bookshop, the nearest town, or only as far as your smartphone to promptly open the app store?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1343\" style=\"display: block; margin: 5px auto;\" title=\"Most of the crew and walkers taking a break during the walk [All photos: Victor Hulbert]\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group.jpg\" alt=\"2018 MJW Group\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Group-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>A group of youth from across Europe have just retraced the steps of a young girl who was so determined to have her own Bible that she saved for six years and then walked 26 miles to purchase a copy for herself.<\/p>\n<p>It was the year 1800.&nbsp; While Bibles were becoming available, they were still very expensive and not for \u2018the common people\u2019.&nbsp; Mary Jones changed all that and her walk to gain a Bible has since inspired tens of thousands of people and led to the formation of the Bible Society, providing God\u2019s Word in multiple languages across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The youth joined Victor Hulbert and Dejan Stojkovi\u0107 for one of their \u2018Reformation Journey\u2019 walks, retracing her route, and imagining what it must have been like.<\/p>\n<p>The two new video episodes in the <em>Reformation Journey<\/em> series now share their experience and their personal reflections.&nbsp; The first episode is released this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reformation Journey 8   Valley and Mountain\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXcBIUCTpDQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mary was a simple Welsh girl, living in the remote village of Llanfihangel-y-pennant at the foot of Cader Idris mountain in southern Snowdonia with her family of weavers.&nbsp; Born in December 1784 to devout but very poor Methodist parents, she learnt to read in Circulating Schools organised by the Reverend Thomas Charles. &nbsp;Mary made a commitment to the Christian faith when she was just eight years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1345\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" title=\"Filming on a mountainside\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming.jpg\" alt=\"2018 MJW Hillside filming\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming.jpg 994w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Hillside_filming-560x374.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The nearest accessible Bible was at a farm two miles from her little cottage but she desperately wanted her own. &nbsp;Mary saved her money diligently for six years.&nbsp; Finally, at age 15 she had the required amount, and so walked twenty-six miles across the countryside to the town of Bala to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Reverend Charles.&nbsp; Her story so inspired him that he made a proposal to the Council of the Religious Tract Society that led to the formation of a Society to supply Wales with Bibles.&nbsp; Today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblesociety.org.uk\/\">Bible Society<\/a> translates and supplies Bibles internationally, while equally working to make the Bible understandable in modern culture.<\/p>\n<p>Mary undertook her walk 300 years after the Reformation started.&nbsp; Yet her story from 218 years ago still inspires lives today.&nbsp; Linea joined the walk from Norway.&nbsp; She noted how much effort Mary put into getting a Bible. \u201cFor me, always having a Bible at home often made me take it for granted.&nbsp; Now, I\u2019m more aware of how privileged I actually am and I now value the Bible so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zs\u00f3fia, from Hungary, wants to be a missionary.&nbsp; \u201cYou can read a book about Mary Jones, but it\u2019s when you experience what she went through that her story pops off the page and becomes real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reformation Journey 9:  Into the future\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lo8hhM75wtw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1350\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" title=\"Facsimile of Mary Jones' Bible at Mary Jones World in Bala\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile.jpg\" alt=\"2018 MJW Bible facsimile\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile.jpg 994w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/images_news-2018_2018_MJW_Bible_facsimile-560x374.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Their hope is that her story, and her inspiration becomes real for you as you view these inspirational videos.&nbsp; For Victor and Dejan, they simply rejoice that the access to Scripture that started the Reformation can still transform lives today.<\/p>\n<p>These two new episodes of <em>Reformation Journey<\/em> add to the seven episodes already available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLHlTyU7ArSTIVxJn2XmiDsMN136k8jqLO\">TED YouTube Channel<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvnow.com\/search?q=reformation+journey\">ARtv<\/a> and other sources. [<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Victor Hulbert, editor; Sajitha Forde-Ralph, associate editor<br \/>119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/>E-mail: <span id=\"cloakf5b05f0d18295908d8b53fba01e62b9d\"><a href=\"mailto:tednews@ted.adventist.org\">tednews@ted.adventist.org<\/a><\/span><br \/>Website: www.ted.adventist.org<br \/>tedNEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division. 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