by Lori Nordstrom Snyder I’ve been trying to put into words what my heart experienced on my recent trip to Tanzania with Authenticity Book House (ABH). It’s not easy to summarize something so transformative, but here’s my best attempt to take you along with me. Before we set foot in Africa, Howard and Fran from …
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by Erin Ensinger Edward Sabibi ran into an unexpected problem when he began translating the ABH Study Bible. With no term in Swahili for “study Bible,” he found himself forced to coin the phrase “Biblia ya Kujifunza” or “Bible for Learning”—the perfect title for a tool that teaches pastors how to study God’s Word. Most …
by Fran Geiger Joslin People sometimes balk at the idea of spending thousands of dollars on a mission trip. Their thinking? $25,000 could feed a lot of hungry people. In our case, we could print a ton of books with the $25,000 it costs for our trip to Tanzania. It’s true that we could print …
by Trevor Meers You need a lot more than efficient shipping to deliver solid biblical training to every corner of the world. Take language alone. Native speakers translate books into their language while editors translate scholars’ words into concepts accessible for the target audience. Sometimes biblical training may even mean dipping into the farming business. …
by Erin Ensinger A Tanzanian pastor faces his family with a grumbling stomach and empty hands. He scrapes together spiritual sustenance for his congregation with no seminary education, commentaries, or study Bible. But his meager salary leaves his table bare at the end of the day. “They’re going hungry,” Pastor James concluded in a conversation …
by Fran Geiger Joslin “Buckle your seatbelt” described 2024 at Authenticity Book House (ABH). I can only imagine what will take place in 2025! We begin 2025 by adding one more full-time staff member, Jessica. Jessica’s presence will help me immensely, as the day-to-day tasks continue to get more and more busy. Jessica proved herself …
by Jessica Helm I entered marriage at the young age of eighteen, full of hope and excitement for the future. I vowed to love and cherish my husband through thick and thin, eager to get my new life started. My visions of what life would look like abounded with possibilities. Brokenness and the depravity of …
by Dianne Taylor A gold couch nestled in our little living room provided me with my first image of caregiving. As a child I knew this couch was special. It contained a hidden bed my mother could fold out whenever an emergency arose. When lightning flashed off the shiny insulation of our attic bedroom, my …
by Erin Ensinger Sometimes ABH books sprout wings and fly farther than we dared dream. We may never know how a copy of Shepherding God’s Church travelled from Tanzania to Malawi’s Dzaleka Refugee Camp, but Pastor Jacob prays for hundreds more books to follow. A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pastor Jacob is …
by Erin Ensinger I read stacks of books on writing before I realized the good ones all give similar advice: I found comfort rather than frustration in reading the same advice repeatedly. I came to see how straightforward beginning and maintaining a writing life can be. Perhaps we complicate things because we’re scared to take …
