Bible Pathway Ministries outreach to 56 countries and continue to look further

Bible Pathway Ministries (BPM) is celebrating a great achievement; outreaching to a total of fifty-six countries. Ken Sharp from Pathway has said that this accomplishment can be seen as a mark of cooperation and partnership in outreach.

Pathways study program has grown from strength to strength, and is particularly popular with people who hear about the ministry from radio programs or from their advertising campaigns.

“They (the radio programs) often will send requests on to us, and then we’re able to fill those requests for Bibles, Bible-teach materials, both for individuals as well as for Pastors, missionaries, churches in a lot of these countries.”

BPM gets daily requests for its biblical materials from all over the world, and through these requests the dire positions of people are revealed clearly; sometimes eight or ten people will make requests within a single letter to save money on postage, as they are unable to afford a stamp by themselves.

The ministry also send pastors a library consisting of a study Bible, a commentary or other reference books, and at least one other teaching book.

Sharp pointed out that because they help other ministries by providing them with free materials for global distribution, they need people’s funding as well as their prayers.

“We can always use more and more Bibles. We’re never able to fill all the requests for Bibles and Bible Pathways that we receive, partly because we just don’t have the resources to purchase them as fast as we send them out.”

The requirements for further resources are continuously growing; BPM have reported that there are in fact Pastors in some countries who don’t even have a Bible. One example shown by them is the story of one Pastor who preached for four years and didn’t even have a Bible. He told BPM that he felt like a farmer who was going out into the field to yield its crops without even a sickle.

In Zimbabwe, a church had 1,000 members but only had 4 Bibles to share amongst the entire congregation. Also in some underprivileged countries, circumstances are so dismal that Bibles are carefully torn apart so that each church member could have a few precious pages each to take home and read alone.

BPM also reported an amazing story of a teenage boy in India who used to be a thief and once stole a woman’s handbag and found a Bible Pathway in it. He later wrote requesting a Bible because he had been saved, and now that he was a Christian would never think of stealing one.

It costs BPM approximately £8 to send a Bible and a one-year set of Bible Pathway to someone. Even though they have achieved great things so far by reaching out to 56 countries, they are looking further beyond, and urgently request help from anyone who can afford to donate money for the distribution of their Biblical materials.

For further details please visit: Bible Pathways Website




Jonathan Cooper
Ecumenical Press