Buddy up your Bible
This Christmas, we’re launching the Bible Buddies scheme to help tackle Bible poverty around the world.
How it works:
- Donate £8 per Bible.
- We’ll send you a special buddy sticker to stick proudly in the front of your Bible.
- Stick it in, or present the sticker to a Bible-loving friend as an alternative Christmas present.
- You will have covered the costs of providing someone else with a Bible in their own language for the very first time.
- In the New Year, we’ll email you a photo of somebody receiving their first Bible!
Why join in?
“We have some people leading churches without Bibles. Without a Bible, how can they lead?”
– Church planter, Mozambique
We might take our Bibles for granted, but the facts are:
- Over a billion people around the world don’t have the whole Bible in their language.
- Millions of Christians haven’t yet got hold of their own copy. For instance, only 2% of Ethiopia’s Christians have a Bible of their own.
- None of these people will be able to read about Jesus’ birth this Christmas!
Buddy up a friend’s Bible as a meaningful Christmas gift!
Donate by Dec 13th, 2024 to receive the sticker/s in time for Christmas
If you donate after this, you’ll be able to download a certificate (PDF) so you have something to give your friend or relative at Christmas. You’ll receive the sticker/s in the post as soon as possible after Christmas.
“I had never held a Bible in my hand before, until I came back from school with my Zulu youth Bible.”
FAQs
Buddy up your Bible is a fun way to support Biblica’s mission. We don’t link your Bible with an individual, identifiable Bible – to arrange this would cost a lot of time and money that would be better spent on actually providing Bibles to the people who are eagerly waiting for them.
We can tell you that over the last two years, we have translated the Bible into 22 new languages, including contemporary Ukrainian (Ukraine), Farsi (Iran), Nepali (Nepal), Brazilian Portuguese (Brazil), Oromo (Ethiopia), and Ndebele (Zimbabwe). We’ll be providing copies of these Bibles over the coming months and years.
We will send you a real photo of somebody who has recently received a Bible for the first time thanks to givers like you supporting Biblica’s work!
Yes, roughly! Although costs vary in different locations around the world, this is the average amount it costs us to print and deliver one copy of the Bible to somebody who doesn’t have one.
We’ll use your Bible Buddy gift wherever it will be the most help in making God’s Word accessible to everyone, everywhere. A large part of this work is Bible translation and providing free copies of the Bible to believers and seekers in inaccessible, forgotten or dangerous parts of the world.
No, you can donate any amount from £8 up. It will really help us get God’s Word to more people around the world if you choose to donate more.
Yes, please do! We’ll receive an extra £2 for every Bible buddied, which we will put towards more Bible translation and provision.
All orders will be shipped using second class stamps, and any orders placed before 13th December will arrive in time for Christmas Day
Sorry, at the moment we can only send the stickers to the person who donates – it’ll be up to you to pass them on to the recipient.
