Lifebringers

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Last year, we launched a new campaign: Lifebringers - a fresh way of collaborating, resourcing, and sharing the Bible through real lives, real contexts, and a shared hope.

We’ve been inspired by countless stories of lives changed, and hope reaching prisoners, hospital patients, and communities. But there is still so much more to do.

We need your support as we continue to equip and empower people to bring life in their communities.

Thanks to your generosity, we’ve been able to provide Bible resources where the need has been greatest and cost has been a barrier. Through our new Resource Lifeline Grant, we’ve offered life-giving materials to those who couldn’t otherwise afford them. With your support we can keep this lifeline going and equip Christians around the world with the Bible’s message of life.

Melissa, a mental health chaplain, shares: “As a mental health chaplain, these little booklets are a huge resource. They are just right for individuals who's concentration is highly compromised as they recover.

"Time and again, the responses from those using these books is they find God within the pages. They are often held as very precious by those who use them and shown to other patients who are drawn into the conversation of faith."

Revd Dr. Andy Murray, Dean of Priority Communities and Vicar of Lawrence Weston and Avonmouth, says “We’ve found Lifewords booklets really effective at connecting with people exploring faith and seeking to answer some of life’s difficult questions. The books are an accessible and subtle way for people who aren’t ready to ask about faith but want to find out more.”

Last year, both churches received a collection of our Little Books, along with 12 other churches in the Bristol Diocese. Revd Andy continues: “We’re really grateful for the support that we’ve received and particularly love the booklets that relate to loss, wellbeing and dealing with stress in life. Being able to put God’s words in people’s hands, to be able to answer some of those really difficult life questions has been really useful.

“We’re discovering is that people are coming back, months or weeks later, and saying, you know, I took some of those books and read them, and I keep reading them and they’ve given me some sort of hope in the midst the challenges that I face.”

Because of you, men and women in prison are discovering the life found in the words of the Bible. Patients in hospitals are finding God’s comfort in their suffering. And once-overlooked communities are encountering true hope.

As we step into a new year, please help us to support and resource chaplains like Matt and Melissa, and church communities like Lawrence Weston and Avonmouth as they faithfully share words of life with those who are searching for hope.

Thank you for bringing life with us. Your gift will make a real difference.