Overseas Operations
Aims and Methods of
Overseas Operations:
Manna Publications helps to meet the need for Bible study commentaries by:
- 1. Arranging publishing partnerships with Christians, missions or churches
- 2. Supplying electornic copies (text with pictures) to trusted contacts
- 3. Helping to pay for the first printing, done locally, at the point of need
- 4. This enables the local distributor to sell at affordable prices
- 5. Encouraging the local distributor to put 50-60% of money from sales back into printing more books
To achieve these goals
Manna Publications:
- 1. Prepares text free of western idiom, jargon, culture and stories
- 2. Provides easy-to-read copy in English suited to any culture
- 3. Provides a business model and helps for translators
- 4. Encourages local production to give distributors on-the-job training and stimulate local economies
- 5. Fosters an ownership environment where the distributor owns and operates his or her own Christian publishing business
- 6. Establishes an indigenous, evangelical Christian literature ministry overseas