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