Canadian Bible Society adds
third web ministry

TORONTO, Canada — A new e-commerce service established by the Canadian Bible Society will offer Canadians easy access to a vast range of biblical material, however remote their community. The Bibles Canada web site, www.biblescanada.com, already features a variety of Bibles, New Testaments, audio Scriptures and Bible software, and will soon supply scholarly publications, along with Scriptures in more than 100 foreign languages and almost two dozen languages spoken by Canadian indigenous peoples.

The Bible Society, recognising that not everybody can readily visit a traditional retail outlet and that around 75 per cent of professing Christians do not go to Christian bookshops, identified an e-commerce service as a means of providing “an easy, cost-effective way for all Christians, even people in remote areas, to access our products”, according to Distribution Manager David Duncan.

The site is updated weekly with new product listings, and care is taken to provide items which meet the needs of many different potential customers. The products range from children’s material – such as a full-colour Children’s Daily Devotional Bible, Scripture comics and the CEV Popular Rainbow Bible – through youth Scriptures – including the Extreme Faith Bible and the Gospel of Mark in magazine format – to material for speakers of other languages, such as a diglot Chinese/English Gospel of Mark. Non-print material is also represented, and customers can choose from items including The Listener’s Bible on cassette or CD and the CEV New Testament on 12 cassettes.