June 10, 2010
Nairobi, KENYA (June 7, 2010)
June 2, 2010 in Dodoma, about 120 Bishops and key church leaders from around Tanzania took a break from a grueling programme during the Annual Christian Council of Tanzania (CCT) Bishop’s Conference to dedicate the newly published Kiswahili edition of the Africa Bible Commentary (ABC) – (Ufafanuzi wa Biblia katika Mazingira [...]
March 31, 2010
Langham Literature Editor Isobel Stevenson reports on training for aspiring writers and editors so desperately needed in the African evangelical publishing industry.
by Isobel Stevenson, editor Langham Literature
Ghana Workshop
I spent an exhausting but very worthwhile two weeks in Ghana and Nigeria. In Accra, Ghana, I worked with a group of 15 theologians who wanted to [...]
March 18, 2010
Today Africa is mourning the passing of another of her great sons, Dr Tokunboh Adeyemo. Dr Adeyemo has been a leader in the evangelical church in Africa for more than 30 years, during which he has overseen the growth of many supposedly impossible projects. He led the Association of Evangelicals in Africa for 25 years, [...]
February 22, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya (February 22, 2010) – Today, WordAlive Publishers (a partner of Langham Partnership International) announces that the Kiswahili edition of the Africa Bible Bible Commentary (ABC), Ufafanuzi wa Biblia Katika Mazingira na Utamaduni wa Kiafrika (UBK), has been sent off to print in China. Printed copies of the 1,824-page one-volume commentary will be available [...]
February 3, 2010
The Promise:
Fifty million Africans with few or no evangelical resources in their native language – a fact, until now! The Africa Bible Commentary (ABC), translated into Kiswahili, will be an instrument for evangelism and discipleship training in East Africa. The impact of this book on one Bible college professor shows great promise:
“I felt a [...]
November 5, 2009
Colin Macpherson (Langham Literature – Creative)
How can the gospel sink deep roots into a country where a generation of Christian writers, thinkers and leaders and their books were wiped out in five short years? Langham Australia’s partnership with Fount of Wisdom Publishing House (FoW) in Phnom Penh is already providing the rapidly growing [...]
October 31, 2009
September 2009 marked a big milestone for the Literature program. A new warehouse opened in the United Kingdom that has made distribution of evangelical literature worldwide more efficient, more flexible, and more easily available for partner publishers.
The Literature program works with some 29 publishers to distribute English and French publications to the Majority World at [...]
August 31, 2009
from the office of WordAlive Publishers
WordAlive Publishers, a partner with the JSM-Langham Literature programme, is pleased to announce that by the end of July 2009, the entire Africa Bible Commentary had been translated into Kiswahili. The completion of this first phase in the Kiswahili ABC translation project was marked by the submission of the “Book [...]
July 28, 2009
by Ian Fleck
A team of thirteen people from a group of churches in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland went to Burkina Faso from the 3rd – 20th July 2009 and participated in a Langham Literature distribution event. The team was involved in helping to build a church building for the Eglise Protestante Evangélique in Ouagadougou, the [...]
June 22, 2009
In June 2008, Langham Scholar Riad Kassis’ book, Why Don’t We Read the Book That Christ Read? Towards a Better Understanding of the Old Testament, became the first Arabic, Middle Eastern publication to be produced as a result of the Langham Writer programme. Arab Christian scholars and pastors alike have received the book with much [...]