BookShare - CLAIM

Providing Pastors and Workers with Bible-based Courses

Paul & Pat Ellis
Phil De Hart

Rafael & Susan Sison
Doug Nichols
CGM (Christian Growth Ministries)

One of the situations you will find in places like the Philippines is the lack of quality biblical resource materials. If they are available, they are imported and, therefore, are much more expensive. For example, a book on Biblical Counseling might sell for about US$22 in the West, but would sell for $25-$30 in the Philippines. This may not seem like a lot to some, but it is when there are 42,000 untrained pastors in the Philippines, many of whom make less than $20 monthly!

To help address this need, one of the ministries of ACTION worldwide is called BookShare or CLAIM, in which we try to print sets of books and give to needy pastors and Christian workers at low-cost. For example, we print and bundle three or four books and make the set available to pastors for only $5! In the Philippines, our BookShare ministry is called CLAIM (Christian Literature for Asians In Ministry) and this ministry works in cooperation with a national organization Christian Growth Ministries (CGM).

Each year ACTION in cooperation with CGM organizes and conducts conferences for Christian workers and pastors throughout Metro Manila and other locations in the Philippines. BookShare/CLAIM is not a give-away program or a subsidy program, but simply a non-profit ministry which provides books at publishing cost only (typesetting, printing, distribution and administration). CLAIM is only for needy pastors, Christian workers and Bible school students, and not for the general public.

Also, ACTION solicits donations of biblically solid books and materials that are no longer needed by the owners. These materials are shipped to the Philippines where they are distributed among pastors and Christian workers throughout the country.

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