Solving Bible Access for God's Advancing Church
This Gap is the unfortunate reality for existing believers in hard places and those they are laboring to reach.
What makes Bible Access so difficult?
Last year alone, 6.9 million new churches were planted — Jesus followers in previously unimaginable places. With the potential for 10 million new church plants in 2025, that’s 10X Gospel growth this decade.
Thanks to movements like illumiNations, God’s Word is being translated for over 96.5% of the global population. It’s becoming available to almost everyone.
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The church in remote, restricted, and under-resourced places is advancing powerfully. Yet the people being served by these churches lack basic access to the Bible.
A new collective impact alliance of leading Bible ministries and kingdom investors is covenanting to solve this big problem and deliver God’s Word to the 1 billion people living in this growing
Bible Gap.
Church leaders in rural, under-resourced, and remote places shouldn’t have to become professional Bible acquisition agents.
As the global church expands, its time to reimagine Bible access, delivery and integration. Isolated Bible products must become a thing of the past – integrated, collaborative service to the global church is now possible and must become the new normal.
Imagine a small church in Northern Togo gathering their community to watch a LUMO Film, which leads to small audio listening groups where families are given Bibles. Children and Youth are intentionally served with appropriate Bible resources as semi-connected digital resources provide easy pathways to share with neighbors of other faiths.
As a church planting leader recently stated, “This approach just makes sense.”
Free Access | Simple to Share | Comprehensively Connected
Deepened partnership will open new opportunities. A Bible ecosystem will power the multi-media Scripture assets needed for deployment.
The harvest is ripe, and the workers are now many, yet the advancing church must be fully equipped with the most precious of tools – the Bible. Together let’s serve them with God’s Word – comprehensively.
It’s a Kingdom opportunity way bigger than any one organization, and both ministries and marketplace leaders are unifying this common cause.
“God is raising up this new Alliance to actually deliver God’s Word to every community in a format they understand.”
John Chesnut, CEO Wycliffe Bible Translators
“There is a massive gap between a product, and that product being delivered and producing transformation – we need to bridge this gap”
Kobus Van Aswegen, CEO of The Word For The World
“Too often we are only able to pass out 1 Bible for every 3 churches we plant – their first act as a new church is to rip the Bible into sections. We need to do better."
Steven Loots, President of Harvesters Ministries.
“A pastor in Indonesia should just be able to search the internet in their mother tongue and get the Bible. Out of every 10 pastors in Russia only 1 speaks English. Why are church planters not getting Bibles when they need them. Anything that can get access to church planters must happen now.”
Mats-Jan Söderberg, Director of Wycliffe Swede
O God, who closed the gap to Your
world by becoming flesh
We ask You to close the gap
between the Bible and those without access.
Unify our vision
around Your heart for the Global Church
To bring Your Word to all,
to the very ends of the earth.
Fill us with love
for those who have not seen and not yet heard
To equip every human heart
with engagement by your Word.
Build a bridge between Your Scriptures
to every corner of the map
As You open Your Words of life
and Close the Bible Gap.