Every Chick customer has a different way of getting the gospel into people’s hands. Here are four testimonies we recently received.

One customer told us he hands out tracts wherever he goes—to Walmart grocery delivery drivers, restaurant workers, gas station attendants, and others he meets throughout the day.

He found that a simple approach works best. For example, when offering A Love Story to women, he’ll often ask, “Do you like a good love story?” When they answer yes, he replies, “This is the greatest love story ever on this earth.”

He also found a use for business reply envelopes from insurance companies, credit card companies, and other businesses that usually get tossed. Instead of throwing them away, he tucks Chick tracts into the envelopes and mails them back.

He even selects tracts that match the recipients, sending Things to Come?, The Last Generation, and The Beast to insurance companies, Back From The Dead? to a crematory, and Big Spender to credit card companies. (Note: Chick Publications recommends that you put a stamp on the envelope as the company has to pay over a dollar to retrieve the postage-paid envelope.)

This testimony comes from Australia, where a man has spent decades getting tracts out through a website he designed, street preaching, and legal mailbox distribution. To date, he has personally distributed more than 1.5 million Chick tracts. Tens of thousands more have been distributed with the help of several assistants.

Now 71 years old, he averages about 1,000 mailboxes every week on foot. He intentionally revisits neighborhoods every 10 to 20 years, ensuring that new residents receive the gospel while previous recipients are given another opportunity to read it.

“It’s good exercise,” he wrote, “and a good feeling of the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

(Note: Placing tracts in mailboxes is legal in many countries but not in the U.S. Soulwinners in the States have found a workaround using zip sandwich bags with a few pebbles in with the tracts to make it easy to toss into driveways.)

Another customer found opportunities in places many people would overlook.

He regularly leaves Chick tracts on park benches throughout the Midwest, where he knows passersby pick them up and read them.

He also attends his town’s yearly Oddities Festival, an event that showcases the bizarre. Rather than avoiding the crowd, he goes specifically to hand out Chick tracts. He rejoices in the opportunities: “I’m just so thrilled that God’s word does not return to Him void by and through these Chick tracts!”

A pastor from Mississippi shared that he first read a Chick tract, The Beast, as an eighth grader. Although he did not come to Christ until years later, he says tracts planted seeds that ultimately helped lead him to the Lord.

Today, after more than forty years in the ministry, he estimates that his church has distributed over 30,000 Chick tracts through direct mail, tract racks, door-to-door visitations, public events, and personal witnessing.

The ministry has also helped churches begin tract ministries, equipped Bible college students, and provided tracts for a youth outreach.

His perspective on tract ministry was especially encouraging: “We KNOW God blesses it in ways we cannot see and that He is keeping score in eternity of the fruit it produces; therefore, by faith, we give His word, knowing it will not return void.”

We are all given unique opportunities to share the gospel. Whether it’s handing a tract to a delivery driver, stocking a tract rack, or reaching a neighbor, every act of faithfulness matters. Thank you to each of you who faithfully put the gospel into people’s hands. We look forward to hearing many more stories of how the Lord is using Chick tracts to reach people around the world.