Providing Literature

Distributing needed commentaries and books for pastors and supporting international writers in creating culturally appropriate texts.

            •           First, we carefully select 2 books each year— especially biblical expositions—and send them to about 12,000 church leaders to help them in their preaching. Two simpler books are selected for approximately 60,000 untrained pastors.

            •           Second, we offer a grant annually to 900 seminary libraries, helping them obtain key evangelical works.

            •           Third, we help nearly 40,000 seminary students and faculty to buy, at a heavily subsidized price, basic reference books to form the nucleus of their personal library.

Because book publishers and distributors give the program generous discounts, the actual value of the books delivered is highly leveraged and represents almost three times our expenditure budget. The Literature Program would not exist if it weren’t for these publishing and distribution partners who are the key link for making good evangelical books available to seminary libraries, faculty, students and pastors.

It would be hard to imagine life without our books, but many pastors from developing countries have nearly empty bookshelves. The Literature Program is helping stock these pastors’ reference libraries with good evangelical books. This effort is having a great effect on the quality of preaching and teaching in many churches around the world.

To learn more about the work of the entire Langham Partnership International in this area, read more here.

You can also browse our Grant Catalog by clicking here.

Support our work and invest in local pastor training efforts by selecting a Literature Program project or providing books through our Grant Catalog to seminaries and colleges around the world.