FCBH does not charge the chaplains for the BibleSticks, which are $25 each, but raises the money through its donors, churches, and Christian radio stations.

Most of the requests for the military version of a popular audio Bible on an MP3 stick is coming from Afghanistan, said a spokesperson for a ministry’s Military BibleStick project on Wednesday.

Afghanistan is where the U.S. military has the most personnel, about 100,000 troops currently. “We have a lot of chaplains that are getting deployed to Afghanistan through the surge and they see what happens when the troops get the Bible,” said Jon Wilke, spokesman for the Military BibleStick project at Faith Comes By Hearing, the world’s largest audio Bible ministry.

Wilke, who served in the U.S. military for seven years, noted that some of the chaplains requesting the BibleSticks are serving units “in deep” and on the frontlines of combat. He shared about the “Darkhorse” marine battalion in Afghanistan that recently lost nine marines in four days. The chaplain of that battalion had requested BibleSticks before that tragic week.

“If we can help these young men and women be grounded in the Bible, then God will help them fight off depression and walk through these difficult times,” Wilke told The Christian Post. “And God will help them cope with losses in combat. We as a ministry need to be there to provide them with a Bible when they need it.”

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