Featured Stories

• An Interview with John Azumah

  September 2, 2008

  by Dave Hoffman
  Inside-Out Evangelical Conference
  Long Beach, California
  Aug 15, 2008
  John Azumah is the first Langham writer sponsored by the Langham Literature program to publish under the Hippo Books press. While in California speaking at the 2008 Inside-Out Conference held by Presbyterian Global Fellowship, John talked with Dave Hoffman, vice president of John Stott Ministries, about his […]

• Merger Brings Good News for Majority World Churches

  July 15, 2008

  Langham Partnership and the Eastern Europe Literature Advisory Committee (EELAC) have agreed to a merger that will allow the aims of both charities to be enhanced. EELAC has had a 30 year track record of developing indigenous Christian publishing houses in Central and Eastern Europe. The merger with Langham Partnership will internationalize this […]

• Plans Develop for a Latin American Biblical Commentary

  April 1, 2008

  The success of the Africa Bible Commentary has stimulated plans to create similar single-volume commentaries by local scholars for other Majority World regions. Similar projects are already in process for Asia and the Middle East. This year, discussion was underway in Buenos Aires for development of the Contemporary Biblical Commentary (In Spanish: Comentário Bíblico […]

• Matching Grants Will Extend Donor Support

  April 1, 2008

  Dear Friends,
  I am pleased to let you know that your ability to support Majority World pastors through John Stott Ministries (JSM) has been amplified as a result of two substantial matching grants from a leading Christian foundation.
  As you may know, over the years, JSM has been the beneficiary of a number of generous grants from […]

• Bislama Writers’ Workshop Report

  February 29, 2008

  Thanks for your prayers and for passing the word to others to pray. The Lord Jesus greatly blessed our writer’s workshop, supported in part by Langham Literature. The sessions were well received, but most importantly, the participants’ faith and courage for work on the “Vanuatu Bible Commentary” (VBC) grew, even alongside our warnings that this […]

• A New Beginning for Arab Christian Theology

  January 31, 2008

  by Langham Partnership International Director Chris Wright
  There have been Arab believers since before the followers of Jesus were even called Christians (a nickname that was invented in Syria). They were there on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:10-11). And the Christian church has continued in the Middle East throughout the past two thousand years. Some […]

• More Milestones for the ABC

  December 13, 2007

  “God seems nearer to a people when he speaks their language.”
  –Augustine of Hippo
  On November 18, 2007, in Dar Es Salaam, WordAlive Publishers officially announced the launch of the Africa Bible Commentary Kiswahili, in the Tanzanian market. This celebration marks the first of many translations for the first-ever single volume Bible commentary written by […]

• LPI Supports Growing Kenyan Preaching Movement

  November 8, 2007

  Reflecting on the Kenyan Langham Preaching programme, Yusufu Turaki, a Nigerian pastor, theologian and contributor to the Africa Bible Commentary said, ‘I have been a pastor and professor for a great number of years but this is one of the most exciting things I have seen.’
  Over the past 3 years the Kenyan preaching movement has […]

• Translation Project for Africa Bible Commentary Begins

  October 1, 2007

  Since its launch in 2006, the Africa Bible Commentary (ABC) the first-ever one-volume commentary written by Africans, for Africans, has sold 65,000 copies (12,000 in the West and 53,000 in Africa). This project has been seven years in the making, with more than $1 million raised to make this project a reality. Tens […]

• Global Christian Library Reaches the Middle East

  September 17, 2007

  by Cindy Crossley
  (London, UK) This summer saw the publishing of 5 significant theological books which will help Arabic church leaders. The Arabic Global Christian Library consists of 5 titles including: Evangelical Truth, Hope for the World, The Human Condition, A Time for Mission and The Bible and Other Faiths.This has been an ambitious project […]