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    GOD'S WORLD AROUND US Coloring Book was meant as an educational supply that might favour to development of children's logic thinking through fulfilling of the tasks connected with painting, calculation, and comparison. Quotations from Bible, that follow each theme, open the harmony of the world of God.

The book contains 54 different tasks, one for each Sunday, and can be used both for individual parents' work with children, and for Sunday Schools

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    CHRIST IS THE HOLY SUN: Byelorussian sacred poetry collection, 2001, 191pp.
This collection was compiled with some last centuries Belarusian authors' poetry works, and Belarusian sacred poetry of XX century is widely presented.

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The Bible Society issued a new book entitled "Christian ABC" in Belarusian. The book is designed for both parents and children and provides a precious opportunity for getting acquainted kids not only with the Belarusian ABC, but also with the basics of Christian behavior. In addition to the rich material contributing to the development of the readers, such as riddles, sayings, simple tasks etc, the edition also comprises the verses from the Bible to learn by heart and to think about. The brief texts for reading together with parents call for thinking over one's behavior, over God's laws concerning the world around us and over one's place among God's creatures in this world. The book is richly illustrated with the colorful pictures by a famous Belarusian artist. Copies number: 3,000

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The BS offers a newly published The Belarusian New Testament. The translation is made from the Latin text and pretends to satisfy the demands of the Belarusian people regardless of their confessional and territorial differences. The translation is supplied with the directory to the parallel sites, thus giving the opportunity of tracking the topics and events throughout the New Testament. All the quotes taken from the Old Testament are printed in thick type. A small glossary and appendix of several tables are added to the book. There are six small maps on the flyleaf. The cover is designed in the traditional folk style: flaxen matting is wrapped in a piece of cloth, a traditional one for Belarus. Above is an ancient Belarusian icon picturing the Nativity. Copies number: 3,000

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The Bible Society of Belarus published a book "Paul, the servant of God". This book was written by a Dutch author Piet Compaan, who for many years has collaborated with a charitable organization engaged in dealing with the hard-of-hearing children and helping them to make spiritual and physical progress. In cooperation with this organization, Piet Compaan has produced the videocassettes, which tell the Good News through the Bible stories and easily understandable games put in hand-language. Also, Piet Compaan is an author of the absorbing books he had written striving to reach the young hearts with a Good News. One of these book entitled "Paul, the servant of God" is specially designed for this particular category of children.
The book is richly illustrated by author's friend Maarten van Beferen, who is a school teacher of art by profession. Small maps the book contains underline the historical context of the events depicted, which conduces to reality perception. The main hero of the book is Paul the Apostle, a founder of the churches consisting of converted gentiles. The life of Paul is traced from his childhood through to his imprisonment and execution in Rome. An enemy of Christ, a prosperous man with a bright future reserved for him, Paul had transformed into an active and fatigueless Christian preacher. He travels the whole ancient world, bearing persecutions, losses and bitter hardships for the sake of Christ. Thanks to his ministry many people find truth and meaning of life.
"Paul, the servant of God" is written in a simple language, with a minimum of abstract words and expressions. For description of the events, the present-tense verbs are mainly used. Taking into consideration a small vocabulary of this specific category of children, the author repeatedly uses recognizable patterns and functional reiterations, avoiding using a wide variety as concerns the words order. The book will also be interesting to the Sunday schools teachers and the primary school children. Copies number: 2,500