Wow.
A lot has been happening the past few months.
I wanted to give you all a quick update on what is happening at Chick.
Hi, I‘m David Daniels from Chick Publications.
A few months ago, Jack Chick's illustrator friend, and mine, Fred Carter, went to his
reward in heaven.
After Jack went to his reward, 6 years ago, it was Fred who drew all the Chick tracts.
Now that Fred has gone to heaven, I'm drawing tracts.
Maybe, God willing, I can also finish drawing the tract Fred was illustrating, before he
passed.
But guess what?
We found that Fred had drawn a Black version of a very popular tract, and we hadn't released
it!
Look for it in November.
Now to catch you up, in the last few months: The Lord blessed us with getting over a million
tracts into Papua New Guinea.
That is very heartening.
The very place Deborah and I wanted to go to as missionary Bible translators almost
40 years ago, now is getting a million King James Bibles from one source and a million
Chick tracts because of your giving.
Please pray for them.
But that wasn't all.
Thanks to the Missions Fund, God blessed us with getting over a million Chick tracts into
the Philippines, as well.
God and Missions Fund giving even blessed us with tens of thousands of tracts to the
Ukrainians and nations bordering them.
Did you see that CNN clip of the little boy reading This Was Your Life in Ukrainian?
What a blessing!
If you know of some missionaries who need Chick tracts, please tell them to contact
us by email at rockney@chick.com.
They should tell us who their mission board is, where they are serving, what tracts they
need and their plans for them.
In other news: The Jesuit videos will continue, including
telling you about some other intriguing books by and about them.
Right now, other projects changed the timeline I have for videos.
Please pray about that.
I am continuing to write the book on the how Brooke Foss Westcott moved from faith to doubt,
taking Fenton John Anthony Hort and a host of others with him.
The book investigates the real causes of his doubt, decoding the notes and abbreviations
that Westcott wrote over 150 years ago, with full documentation and the stories behind
them.
Very intriguing.
That is nearing a conclusion, but first, I needed to translate a Latin document.
This document turned the 1800s into a rapid move to try to investigate the Codex Vaticanus
and a frantic search for another codex like it.
Bible scholars influenced by Rome hoped they had proof that Vaticanus was from the 300s
AD and so they could finally unseat the Received Text and that "pesky" King James Bible.
That Latin document was "De Antiquitate Codicis Vaticani Commentatio", "On the Antiquity of
Codex Vaticanus, a Study," by Catholic priest Johann Leonhard Hug.
I am finishing translating Hug's 1810 treatise on Vaticanus.
For 212 years it had remained untranslated.
And now we know why: We literally have to have visual images of Codex Vaticanus right
in front of us, and some understanding of textual criticism, Greek and paleography,
to make an accurate translation.
Thankfully, all of the pieces have come together, thanks to internet, photography and media.
That will likely be included in one of the upcoming books.
And yes, we are still making tracts.
I drew the present tract, No Way In?, started drawing for the Battle Cry, and am currently
drawing the new tract.
In other projects, we are working together with scientists from the Institute for Creation
Research, looking at updating information in older tracts.
Dr. Johnson even gave me the basic idea behind the tract I'm drawing right now!
Please pray for all these projects.
So there you have it.
A lot is going on at Chick Publications.
We still ship tracts to missionaries.
There are more videos coming in the Jesuits series.
A book on Westcott and Hort is coming.
We're making a Latin-English parallel translation of a pivotal document, in order to understand
the 1800s push to get rid of the King James.
We're updating some older tracts, still writing and drawing new tracts, and we're putting
out a never-before released Black version of a tract in November, drawn by Fred Carter
before he passed away.
I may have missed some stuff.
But as you can see, we are anything but sitting on our hands.
That's a quick update.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.