Crossway Partners With African Non-Profit to Distribute One Million Bibles: ‘We Should Flood the Continent with God’s Word’
By Movieguide® Staff
Popular Christian publisher Crossway recently revealed their plan to distribute one million Bibles in the global south.
“If we care about the future of the church — the future of the church is in Africa, because the next generation of the church is going to be there — then we ought to help them by providing Bibles, study Bibles, and sound doctrine,” Karen Elliott, executive director of the Rafiki Foundation, said. “We should flood the continent with God’s Word.”
The Rafiki Foundation is based in Africa and partnered with Crossway to accomplish their goal to spread God’s word.
Faithwire reported:
In a press release of its own, Crossway said its goal is to raise half a million dollars by June 30 in order to give Bibles to 100,000 children who might not otherwise have access to Scripture. This follows the successful completion of the first phase of the project, which came in December, after the publishing house raised more than $500,000 and began giving away over 100,000 copies of God’s Word.
Movieguide® previously reported on how media has been used to spread God’s word:
Did you know the popularity of the iPhone has boosted the readership of the Bible by more than 500 million?
One of the first apps available in the App Store when the iPhone launched was the free YouVersion Bible App.
Today, more than 500 million people have downloaded the app, which offers users 2,760 Bible versions in 1,831 languages for free, and without advertising.
Bobby Gruenewald, the founder of the YouVersion Bible App, said he was “super grateful” for the cell phone because it allowed him to connect people with the Bible in a new way.
“We saw the technology had potential to reach people with the Gospel,” he shared. “But we had no idea, though, how God could use it in such a powerful way to reach people in every single country and territory with his word and we’ve been able to be a really incredible witness to what God has done.”
He continued, “I was just trying to figure out how to use technology to help people read the Bible more consistently. And just had enough faith to start, to try something, and of course, what we’ve seen God do is incredible. Our faith has grown, but in the very beginning had no idea what it was going to become.”
Shannon Bennett, the Museum of the Bible’s chief marketing officer, agreed, saying, “We can really look at YouVersion as a continuation of Guttenberg’s tradition of getting the Bible into the hands of everyone around the world. Maybe you can’t download the Bible app in North Korea but if you bring your phone in that has the Bible on it already, there it is in a country that bans the Bible.”
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