Cook reads God's Word--aloud

by Karen L. Willoughby, Managing Editor

RUSTON – Members of Cook Baptist Church signed up for back-to-back, two-hour time slots recently, for the opportunity of reading the Bible aloud.

Families, Sunday school classes and other small groups, as well as individuals, sat in the foyer of the church a half-mile north of Interstate-20, and read from where the last person left off. It took 79 and one-half hours for 100 people to read from Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21 in the New King James version.

“We wanted to make a statement that America needs to return to hearing God,” said Mike Holloway, pastor since 2005 of Cook Ruston. “We want people across America to Hear God Speak – that’s the name we gave it – hear God speak to their hearts about their morals and lifestyles.