Randy Melchert is a school administrator, a researcher and a consultant. He's a member of the board of directors of VCY America. He has also administered the Bible reading challenge for 2018 and is administering the 2019Pray.org   Encouragement Project.

A year ago, Randy was on Crosstalk introducing the Bible Reading Challenge for 2018. The reason for this is because Randy discovered that America is in a Bible reading crisis. Only 1 out of 11 Americans are reading the Bible daily. Less than one out of five church goers reads the Bible daily.

About 1,000 orders for the One Year Bible were shipped out. Then there was the One Year Bible Reading Plan. Over 1,200 people downloaded that plan just from the 2018bible.org site alone. 139 people joined the mobile app with over 403 on the daily Bible reading e-mail list. 194 were on the Facebook page. There were over 6,000 unique visitors to 2018bible.org.

To sign up for the daily Bible reading e-mail go to www.2018bible.org.