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 [...]
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 [...]
June 22, 2009
Interview with Rosalee Velloso Ewell, New Testament Editor of the Latin American Bible Commentary (LABC)
LABC Team, from left to right sitting down: C. René Padilla (General Editor), Rosalee Velloso Ewell (New Testament Editor) and Milton Acosta (Old Testament Editor). Standing: Ian Darke (Project Coordinator) and Gilbert Montero (Assistant to the Project Coordinator).
Please share a little [...]
April 8, 2009
It started with a flyer that was published in a Christian periodical in Africa. One reader, who was associated with Flying Mission, an aviation-based ministry that serves Botswana, Zambia, and southern Africa, noticed that flyer described a program that distributes the Africa Bible Commentary as a tool for grassroots pastors in need. A few months [...]
March 30, 2009
By Isobel Stevenson, chief editor of the creative programs for Langham Literature
Josephine was fascinated by the problems faced by the Boni women of Kenya, whose society had swung from matriarchal to patriarchal in one generation. Emily had been a witness of the riots in Kenya in 2008. Lubungu had witnessed the devastation wrought by conflict [...]