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Bibles for Young Hearts - CLC World Magazine 2025/02

By God’s grace, CLC is active in 43 countries, where national teams faithfully distribute Bibles and quality Christian literature through bookshops, online stores, and wholesale networks. CLC is actively publishing Bibles and books in 23 languages to meet the spiritual needs of people in their own culture and context.

Jacob Mung, National Director of CLC Myanmar, is leading an initiative to bring the life-changing message of the Gospel to his people through the distribution of Burmese Bibles. “The people are desperate. The future feels hopeless. But God’s Word offers a hope that will never fail.”

A Miracle Month at the Surabaya Bookshop

Read a testimony from our Surabaya Bookshop in Indonesia.

Update: 50,000 Children's Bibles Donation Project

Our project has grown from 25,000 to 50,000 Children’s Bibles! Praise God! Some of these Bibles are beginning to arrive in various countries. New Bibles for children have arrived at our CLC shop in Thailand & India.

Meet me in Rome: CLC International 2024 Council - September 24th - 30th, 2024

During the last week in September the CLC International Council meetings took place just outside Rome. It was a wonderful time of encouraging, learning, sharing and worshiping.

25,000 Children’s Bibles Project: Help us print 25,000 in multiple languages

During a trip to our CLC ministry in Chiang Mai, Thailand last year, I was struck by how few Bibles were available for children in the Thai language. I knew that we had to do something about this lack of materials for different age groups for our precious children. As I spoke to some colleagues, we realised that this was a problem in many countries.

Update: Chennai Building Project

ELS India is currently in the middle of a life-changing construction project in the city of Chennai. This project has been a long time in the making and is now becoming a reality. The fourstorey building will have parking on the ground floor, a 222 m2 showroom, conference rooms, and a large number of rooms to accommodate guests on the top floor.

Meet the ELS Ministry in India - CLC World Magazine 2024/02

Our dedicated team manages 23 bookshops in the country, mostly in the south where the majority of Christians live. It is one of the countries with the most staff and also the largest distribution of Christian literature in the CLC International Fellowship.

India: Country Highlight - Impacting lives through books

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Evangelical Literature Service in the beautiful and diverse nation of India, which is home to 1.39 billion people. The work is continuing to grow and includes 23 bookstores, publishing, mobile ministry, outlets, and web sales.

Meet: Justin Chellappan, ELS National Director

The youngest of six, Justin was born into a pastoral family. His father, born Hindu, accepted Jesus as his Saviour after seeing the Lord move greatly in his family. Justin committed his life to the Lord at 14 years old, but because of the hardships he saw in the ministry, he decided to follow a different path.

Publishing In India

Through the publishing ministry, our teams can help shape and influence the reading culture in their respective countries. To this day, the Lord continues to use the printed page as a tool for evangelism, hope, equipping, and transformation.

CLC: A Diverse Family (Welcome to CLC World Magazine 2019/03)

As you probably realise, CLC is an extremely diverse group of people. Operating in 46 countries, with national workers in each of them, alongside a smaller number of cross-cultural workers, CLC is made up of many nations, languages and church backgrounds. We come together under a shared vision to help people on their spiritual journey through the Bibles, books and Christian resources that we distribute.