Our vision is to see churches worldwide being equipped for mission and growing to maturity through the ministry of Christian leaders and pastors who sincerely believe, diligently study, faithfully expound and relevantly apply the Word of God.’
Originally established as the Evangelical Literature Trust as a means of recycling John Stott’s own royalties, this ministry recognizes that many pastors and lay leaders have almost nothing to help them in their preaching and teaching ministry. Pastors can’t teach the Bible if they don’t study, and they can’t study if they have no books.
Langham Literature sends two gift books annually (usually commentaries or biblical resource books) at different levels to about 60,000 pastors in 40 countries. A small basic library is also made available at very low cost to students in seminaries. And about 750 seminary libraries in 80 countries also receive an annual grant along with a catalogue of evangelical books to build their stock of textbooks. The program operates in English-, French-, Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking parts of the world. We also support local writers and publishers in many other languages. Read More from LPI>>
Where pastors receive training at all, it will often be in a seminary or Bible college. Sometimes the quality of teaching is neither academically competent nor evangelical. So John Stott established the Langham Trust to provide scholarships for younger evangelicals with academic ability and leadership potential to achieve doctorates in universities or seminaries in the U.K., the United States and other countries, and then return to positions of strategic influence in their own countries.
Over the years more than 100 Langham Scholars have returned to such roles all over the world. About 40 are currently studying for doctorates in the UK. Another 40 are studying in the United States, supported by John Stott Ministries. Read More from LPI>>
There is nothing like face–to–face engagement with pastors and students in their own context for motivating and equipping people to take seriously the task of expository biblical preaching. So the third ministry of the Langham Partnership is to offer preaching seminars in different parts of the world, in cooperation with local leaders or agencies. Typically these last for one week and involve about 70–90 men and women at a time, all of whom also receive a small set of key books on biblical preaching and interpretation. An international team of facilitators is being formed as well as a network of existing agencies committed to the same goals. Read More from LPI>>