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'''Gideons International''' is an international, non-profit interdenominational [[Christian]] organization which spreads the Word of [[God]], usually by placing [[King James Bible]]s in hotel rooms and hospitals.

'''Gideons International''' is a non-profit [[protestant]] [[Christian]] organization comprised of business and professional men and their wives.<ref>Found in the front portion of Gideon full bibles and New Testaments, on the page titled "Who Are The Gideons?"</ref><ref>https://www.gideons.org/faq</ref> Gideons spread the Word of [[God]] by placing or distributing copies of the [[King James Bible]] or [[English Standard Version]] in hotel rooms and institutions (including hospitals, schools, military bases, homeless shelters, and correctional facilities). The organization was started by two traveling salesmen in [[Wisconsin]] who were Christian and shared a hotel room, and the organization is currently headquartered in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]. The Gideons first started putting Bibles in hotel rooms in 1908, and by its 100th anniversary it had placed 1.4 billion of them.<ref>Christianity Today, June 2008, Pg. 16</ref>

==External Links==

==Notable members==

*[http://www.gideons.org/Tgi.web/TGI.Web.Public.Web.Site/|Gideons International Official Site]

*[[W. R. Davenport]]

*[[Robert L. Miller]]

*[[Pratt Remmel]]

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