For those wanting to be involved in this missionary outreach, we provide these means:
1. Cash contributions. You may send checks in U.S. dollars payable to World Missionary Press, Inc., P.O. Box 120, New Paris, IN 46553.
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2. Stocks and bonds. Gifts of stocks and bonds which have lost value should be liquidated first and the proceeds donated (so that you can take a deduction for the loss). Stocks and bonds which have appreciated in value can be transferred directly to the World Missionary Press account at Edward Jones (Account No. 943-07667-1-8; DTC routing No. 0057). You do not need to pay capital gains tax and can usually take a deduction for the gift. WMP policy is to liquidate gifts of stocks or bonds immediately to benefit the ministry.
Once the transfer has been made, please contact Marie Mack, Treasurer, by phone at 574-831-2111, ext. 221, or by e-mail at marie@wmpress.org with the number of shares and the name of the stock(s) that you are transferring, along with your contact information, so that we can send you a non-cash charitable gift receipt, necessary to qualify you for any available federal income tax deduction on your contribution. (According to the IRS, valuation of non-cash gifts is the responsibility of the donor.)
3. Bequests. God has used the distribution of estates which named World Missionary Press, Inc. as a beneficiary to help increase production of His Word. If you desire to leave a legacy of providing God’s Word to eternal souls in their own languages, you may want to name World Missionary Press, Inc. as a beneficiary in your will, either to receive a specific amount or a percentage of the proceeds of your estate. To avoid any conflicts of interest, World Missionary Press does not assist in the preparation of wills (please contact your own attorney) or in acting as trustee or estate executor.
4. Other gifts. Donating paid-up insurance policies with cash values (and no longer needed) is one example. If you are interested in giving appreciated real estate or other property, please contact WMP Treasurer, Marie Mack.
Our Vision World Missionary Press, Inc. does not sell any of its Scriptural materials. From the beginning Watson and Rose Goodman’s vision was to provide the bread of God’s Word to the multitudes of earth free of charge. The words of Jesus rang in their hearts, “Give ye them to eat” (Matthew 14:16b). And so the work began – God providing the means to give out His Word to those who would then give it out to the multitudes who are like “sheep without a shepherd.”
God puts it on the hearts of individuals, churches, and businesses to share what they have. Like the little boy who brought his lunch to Jesus, it is multiplied. “Little becomes much when God is in it.” For many years now, God has enabled the cost of a 48-page topical Scripture booklet to remain at just under 5 cents each, including all costs of printing and binding, overhead, and shipping anywhere in the world, on average. Because of the economy of operation (high-speed equipment printing on rolls of paper, “missionary” wages, and the work of hundreds of volunteers), each donated dollar provides the equivalent of twenty-five 48-page topical Scripture booklets to reach people worldwide in their own language.
If you would like to review our audited financial statements, Form 990 informational returns filed with the IRS, or annual reports for past years, please click on https://www.wmpress.org/financialinfo.shtml. Thank you, and God bless you!
Every year World Missionary Press supplies large quantities of Scripture booklets, Bible study booklets, Spanish New Testaments, and Salvation coloring books to countries throughout Latin America. The following are some of the projects you can help us with:
Bolivia: The WMP booklet The Way to God has become a standard teaching tool in hundreds of rural schools in Bolivia. Teams are able to go into classrooms, give each student their own copy and then teach the material to the class. Many students and teachers are finding the Savior through this wonderful open door. Such a project requires thousands of copies of The Way to God in Spanish. WMP is preparing a shipment of over 1 million copies along with Bible studies, New Testaments, and salvation coloring books for Bolivia. Total cost to print and ship the material requested for Bolivia is $51,200. You can provide The Way to God booklet for 500 Bolivian children through a donation of just $20. You Can Help!
Cuba: Opportunities to share WMP literature in Cuba are steadily growing. Believers are finding encouragement and strength through WMP Bible studies and have asked for large quantities of the Bible studies on Matthew and Romans. To meet the challenge of filling these needs WMP is preparing a 20′ container of material that will include over 100,000 copies of each of these Bible studies as well as the Help From Above Scripture booklet and He Is Risen salvation coloring book. Total cost to print and ship the almost 700,000 items in 2,560 boxes for this project is $51,200. A donation of $5,120 will provide a pallet of 51,456 Bible study books. You Can Help!
Dominican Republic:Outreach to children in their local communities is a vital part of ministry in Dominican Republic. Teams hold local Bible clubs, giving The Way to God booklet from WMP to each child. Churches are also meeting the needs of Haitians who have come to find work and help. Through Scripture booklets, New Testaments, study books, and topical Scripture booklets the word of God is meeting needs in this country. WMP is preparing a shipment of 874,000 items in Spanish and Kreyol, including more than 10,000 New Testaments for Dominican Republic. Total cost to print and ship the 2,350 boxes of literature is $47,000. You can provide 100 Spanish New Testaments for a donation of $90. You Can Help!
Mexico: Violence, uncertainty, and fear are part of the daily life of many Mexican people. Christian workers there know that to face these difficulties it is vital THAT the word of God be planted in the heart. Teams are spreading out to every state in Mexico with WMP literature, bringing the message of hope and peace through Jesus Christ. They often face danger, threats, and personal attacks, but they keep on. To assist these faithful believers WMP is preparing a shipment of over 1.475 million Scripture booklets, Bible studies, and New Testaments at a total cost of $80,000. A donation of $6,180 will provide 154,500 copies of the booklet Satan Versus CHRIST . You Can Help!
Paraguay: Through the faithful partnership of the Bible Society of Paraguay WMP is able to provide more than 1.7 million Scripture booklets, Bible Studies, and salvation coloring books for large and small ministries in Paraguay. They work in schools, train pastors and teachers, and evangelize villages and cities, making known the truth of the word of God. Included in a new shipment being prepared for Paraguay is a supply of 51,500 Help From Above booklets in Guarani, a second national language understood by almost 90% of the people. Each of the ministries receiving a portion of this shipment is serving in a different way toward a common goal. Total cost to print the 4,215 boxes for this shipment is $84,300. Every dollar will help to provide 25 school children with a copy of The Way to God.. You Can Help!
Peru: A newly formed association of churches in Peru has taken on the task of reaching into the schools and remote areas with the word of God. They have asked WMP to provide the literature to help them fulfill this commitment. In addition they recognize the need to train those who accept Christ as Savior and have requested WMP Bible study books.WMP is preparing a shipment of over 650,000 items including over half a million copies of The Way to God booklet in Spanish. Total cost to print and ship the 2,075 boxes of literature for Peru is $41,500. Your donation of $1 will provide 25 school children with a copy of The Way to God. You Can Help!
“But the Word of God grew and multiplied.” –Acts 12:24
Twelve:24 Capital Campaign – $900,000
We are pleased to extend a personal invitation for you to take part in our significant Capital Campaign, a vital initiative for World Missionary Press that has not occurred in over two decades. Our Twelve:24 Capital Campaign is being introduced to fund the purchase of a second King Web Press. We have agreed to purchase a refurbished press, which will be accompanied by a custom-built folder designed for compatibility. We expect the new press to arrive in early 2026.
Our current web press has proven to be an invaluable asset to WMP for over 20 years. The addition of another web press will significantly increase our capacity to print God’s Word. This campaign presents World Missionary Press with the chance to acquire a rebuilt web press and bindery line. The web press will be entirely rebuilt to match our current model, incorporating enhanced performance upgrades. Additionally, the new bindery will enable us to manage the increased capacity resulting from the Web Press acquisition, ensuring the long-term sustainability of World Missionary Press in our mission to print and distribute God’s Word at an unprecedented scale.
We have found great favor with our web press builder and through a great capital machine supplier. Our total investment will be around $900,000 dollars.
Your generosity is vital to the success of this campaign. Together, we can impact the world for Christ through WMP for generations to come.
Thank you for your continued support!
In Christ,
Steve Chupp
Interim President
Why Your Support Matters
Direct Impact: Your contribution will directly fund the Twelve:24 campaign, which will expand our web press and bindery production capability. Our current web press is running at full capacity to keep up with demand.
Reaching New Heights: This campaign will help us produce more Scripture booklets and reduce our production times. It will allow us to reach more people, provide for distributors more effectively, dedicate to larger projects to help meet needs in the missionary fields, and help us ensure the supply chain of hope continues.
Legacy of Change: By supporting this campaign, you become an integral part of shaping World Missionary Press and its future and leave a lasting positive impact on the world for Christ.
Thank you so much for your support! Your prayers and gifts towards the cost of these items will greatly benefit our efforts to meet the growing need for Scripture booklets around the world! To help financially with these needs, please designate your gift towards one of the above items, or to “Capital Needs” to be used towards any of our needed capital items.
God bless you!
World Missionary Press, Inc.
P.O. Box 120
New Paris, IN 46553
Warm Christian greetings from all of us at World Missionary Press! Here in Indiana we’re experiencing Arctic blasts, icy roads, and other wintry conditions. Even when it’s cold outside, our hearts are ablaze with excitement at what God is doing around the world through His Word! We recently mailed our February Newsletter – Caribgirlfeaturing the growing use of Scripture booklets in the warmer climes of Jamaica; a Cameroonian brother’s zeal for sharing God’s Word in China; WMP’s Devon, sharing his excitement about working here; and long-time partner Alan in Canada, who ships quantities of WMP materials throughout the world. You can read the electronic copy of the February Newsletter by clicking here.
In addition to the mushrooming enthusiasm for God’s Word in Jamaica, we encourage you to also read about what’s happening elsewhere in the Caribbean – including updates from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Trinidad & Tobago: Caribbean!
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Sincerely in Christ,
Harold Mack, President
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AFTER COMMUNISM FELL in 1989 and reports of conditions in the orphanages of Romania horrified the world the following year, World Missionary Press answered the call for children’s material by shipping a container to Romania filled with 200,000 Romanian copies of the salvation coloring book, He Is Risen!
In one orphanage, as the children were coloring the pictures, they heard a voice they did not recognize saying, “Jesus died for me!” Puzzled, they looked around to see who had said that. It turned out to be a small boy, who up to that time had not spoken one word. He was coloring the picture of Jesus dying on the cross – for him!
As we remember Jesus’ finished work on the cross and reflect on the power of His resurrection life in us, let us commit ourselves afresh to share this wonderful message with a world in desperate need of good news.
Jake and Jessie S. are two of many who responded to God’s call to minister in Romania. Jake received Christ in 1999 as a 19-year-old in Wisconsin while studying Aerospace Engineering. But he knew then that he was called to ministry. Ten years later, a missionary working in Romania visited the church where Jake served as youth pastor and announced, “If you ever want to visit Romania, come on out, for two weeks or two years – however long you want.” Jake and his wife Jessie both felt God’s prompting to respond. In 2011, Jake and Jessie’s call was confirmed during a visit to Romania. The following year found them in the capital city of Bucharest, learning Romanian, networking with local Christian ministries, and evangelizing with WMP Scripture booklets.
Within 2 1/2 years, God had used the Scripture booklets (and other modes of evangelism) to plant a church. They named the new church Piatra Vie, “Living Stone,” a metaphor Paul used of Jesus in 1 Peter 2:4-5, in which he described the scattered believers in Asia Minor as coming to Christ as to a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God, and who were themselves, as living stones, “being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
Jake writes, “We’re committed to evangelism, and God is sending us those with a similar heart, but the constant need is for materials.” Their ministry supports a full-time native missionary who is on the streets of Bucharest every day doing evangelism. In addition, they have a team of four full-time American missionaries who will be doing the same.
“I pray our testimony of what God has done in Romania through World Missionary Press will inspire people to keep giving. This ministry is vital, and people need to know that.”
“We’re ministering to a number of refugees from Muslim nations, and they’re really interested in the gospel. One young man, Ali, gave his heart to Jesus a year ago, got baptized, and has since changed his name to reflect his new identity in Christ. [He] is one of the boldest evangelists at our church, telling all the Africans he used to do drugs with that Jesus can change their lives.”
Jake emphasizes the importance of WMP Scripture booklets: “In the time we’ve been here in Romania, we’ve noticed that booklets are powerful. When we arrived, we couldn’t speak Romanian at all, so the only option was to hand out tracts. Now that we can speak Romanian, we still hand out tracts because of their effectiveness. People take them, they read them, and then they keep them to think about. A number of times, people have called us six months or a year later telling us, ‘I read the booklet you gave me, and at first I didn’t want to believe it, but I kept it just in case it was right. Now I see my need for God.'”
Jake and Jessie recently requested more than 4,000 Scripture booklets from WMP in Romanian and Tiganesti, the mother tongue of Bucharest’s considerable Gypsy population; plus a few in English to fuel their ongoing evangelism in Bucharest, promising, “If you can send us these booklets, we will use them. None of them will go to waste sitting on a shelf or forgotten somewhere. …Every one we get is precious. Thank you so much for anything you can do to help us get the gospel to the people of Romania.”
What a beautiful privilege it is to supply Christians – like the “living stones” of this small but growing church in Bucharest – with the tools they need to reach souls in their city!
Recently, The Bible Society of Moldova sent WMP a first-time request for a variety of Scripture booklets in Romanian and Russian for distribution over all of Moldova (next-door neighbor to Romania). Since their goal is to “make Scripture available for everyone,” they have turned to WMP on behalf of three main denominations which often ask about literature for free distribution. Their request for 75,000 booklets includes 10,000 copies of He Is Risen! in Russian and 20,000 in Romanian. What an amazing opportunity to touch a nation for Christ!
[You can be involved in sharing the Good News! Every $20 provides for 500 Scripture booklets on average; $25 will provide for more than 100 He Is Risen! coloring books.]
Grateful Quotes
Scripture booklets for Haiti
What an awesome God we serve!
“For our own Haiti mission trips and as a flight attendant for Missionary Flights International, I supply tracts to missionaries when they travel to Haiti. The English [copies] are for the missionaries and at home. Your booklets are ideal for evangelism and discipleship because they contain so much Scripture.
“I first learned about your booklets in a wonderful way. My friend and I were witnessing to people on the boardwalk in Vero Beach, Florida. We met a couple who had recently moved from North Carolina to Ft. Pierce, Florida. That day they decided to come up to Vero Beach and give out booklets there for a change. We handed them one of your booklets, and the man said to his wife, ‘See, I told you there was probably already someone else here.’ We asked them if they had booklets in other languages, because we were going on a mission trip to Haiti in about 10 days. They told us they did.
“We met up later. His wife opened the trunk of their car, and there were two unopened boxes of your booklets – one in French and one in Kreyol! She said that when they received these boxes, her husband said, ‘I’m not sure why I got these; I sure wish I knew someone going to Haiti.’ So cool! What an awesome God we serve! His provision is beyond our imagination. God bless you!” -Cynthia, Florida
[The Haitian Bible Society has requested another shipment of Kreyol materials, as interest in God’s Word has increased since the earthquake in 2010.]
Meet the Team
Angelee Y.
Secretary to the President
I first heard about World Missionary Press through the church I attended in Wisconsin. They showed the DVD from WMP about Wesley Smith taking Scripture booklets into China. I had grown up aware of and praying for the persecuted Church, especially in China. When I found out that WMP printed Chinese Scripture booklets that were getting into China, I was thrilled! Later I came and volunteered for a week and was able to see the ministry firsthand.
I served in the pre-press department from 2000 to 2003. I attended a technical college and earned an associate degree to prepare me to be an administrative assistant with computer skills. After serving at a ministry in Singapore, I returned to WMP, where I have been secretary to the president since 2010. I like the fact that my “job” is working towards building the Kingdom. I may be doing general secretarial tasks, but they have an eternal purpose. I love Helen’s chapels
as she shares stories of people coming to know the Lord through the Scripture booklets.
My hobbies include collecting and reading books, listening to and playing classical music, attending concerts, and playing musical instruments. I also enjoy traveling and visiting new places. Now that I’m married (to the kindest, most loving and patient man on earth), I do all things related to keeping house!
Nolan Y., Production Assistant
As a teen, I learned about WMP through my church volunteering and field reps visiting my church. I have worked for printing ministries all my adult life. Upon returning to Goshen, Indiana, from ministry in Canada, I wanted to continue working in missions locally. I’ve been on staff at WMP since May of 2007.
I bundle the booklet insides (signatures) as they come off the web press for future assembly on the binderies. I also share the janitorial duties. I enjoy getting to handle so many pieces of God’s Word, and I am encouraged by accounts of God’s Spirit working worldwide.
Geography and singing are some of my hobbies. I am currently enjoying singing tenor in a local choir and glorifying God that way. I’m also privileged to have a beautiful wife of nearly three years who also works here at WMP.
WMP Partners Around the World
Our Backlog of Urgent Requests
The 80+ volunteer national coordinators and dozens more major distributors, who help orchestrate the distribution of WMP literature within their countries, look to World Missionary Press for a continuing supply of Scripture booklets, Bibles studies, salvation coloring books, and New Testaments. This presents an ongoing challenge to our production team to keep material flowing to every part of the globe.
From the 40 languages we supply for India, to the various languages spoken in the Philippines, to an ever-growing demand for WMP material in Spanish for Central and South America, as well as the numerous unique and diverse languages of Africa – our vision is to keep making Scripture portions available as quickly as possible.
When planning our monthly production budget for this fiscal year (October, 2014 through September, 2015) we took a step of faith – trusting God for the income to support producing an average of 7.5 million per month (equivalency) in-plant, and an additional one million per month equivalency as contract printings (e.g., in countries such as India, Indonesia, etc.). Through the first five months of the fiscal year we are under our projected income budget by nearly $200,000. We are therefore facing the need to decrease our monthly in-plant production target, from 7.5 million to 6.5 million per month, and to restrict further contract printings. We praise the Lord for every dollar given, for every booklet produced. Yet the NEED is for so much more!
Will you please pray earnestly with us for provision from the Lord, to not only meet our income and production budgets, but to increase production to 9 million per month and more!
There is a great sense of urgency communicated by those who send their requests, as they see first-hand the faces of those who are trapped in the bondage of sin, needing a Savior.
The 9 million booklets listed for India in the following table represent the needs of just one ministry. The message was, “The need is huge. I am not sure when and how you will be able to supply us with this enormous amount of gospel literature. We shall be praying for God’s provision. We are grateful to the Lord for WMP and its strategic partnership with us and with other ministries in India. Things are becoming harder for our missionaries. Persecutions have increased.”
As an answer to prayer, a new opportunity opened to provide material in Botswana: “I am glad to receive an email from you. How refreshed I am that this process is now beginning. Thank you in advance for all the effort you and your team will put in, making sure that we receive this much-needed literature. That is a gesture that will go a long way in changing the Christian landscape here in Botswana. Botswana definitely needs the literature like yesterday.”
An additional $45,000 per month above budget would allow us to increase production from 7.5 million to 9 million per month. We believe God has prepared the facilities, the equipment, and the staff to consistently produce 9 million or more per month, to better meet the many needs on hand. Workers abroad are waiting to receive the seed. Will you join us in stepping up to answer these urgent calls for Scripture materials?
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The famous explorer Marco Polo set out from Venice in 1271 AD to explore the East, returning more than twenty years later to chronicle his many travels in A Description of the World, published sometime around 1300. In his writings, Polo described a rich African island he called “Madeigascar,” his attempted transliteration of the name Mogadishu, the port city in Somalia – not at all the same place! The adventurer’s confusion spread to European cartographers, who mislabeled the island on their maps with Polo’s version of a different place’s name, and so it is known to this day as “Madagascar.”
Centuries later, in 1818, three missionaries from the London Missionary Society (of which the notable Dr. David Livingstone was a member) – James Cameron, David Jones, and David Griffith – came to Madagascar to spread the gospel, build schools, and introduce the people to new inventions. Jones and Griffith translated Scripture into Malagasy, the native tongue, and Cameron oversaw the installation of the first printing press on the island. Their combined efforts produced the first Bible ever published in an African language.
Today, nearly two hundred years later, World Missionary Press is carrying the torch of these LMS missionaries, supplying Dries D., our national coordinator for Madagascar, with regular shipments of Scripture booklets in Malagasy. Dries has been using WMP literature for almost a quarter of a century now, first encountering our materials while ministering in South Africa.
Since moving to Madagascar nearly twenty years ago to minister full-time as national director for Every Home for Christ (EHC), Dries has continued to order WMP booklets to the present day. In February, 2014, WMP sent him a 20-foot ship container carrying over 1,000,000 booklets. It arrived in late April and when it finally cleared customs in mid-May, Dries sent encouraging photos to WMP and wrote, “Thank you, WMP, for letting us have so many powerful tools from you, so that we can share the blessed Good News by giving a paper missionary to so many homes in our country.” Some days EHC teams in Madagascar visit up to 6,000 homes. They’d like to do that at least three days a week in different locations in the country. Each home gets a minimum of one Help From Above booklet (for adults) and one Way to God booklet (for children).
Recently Dries emailed an enthusiastic report of EHC ministry in 2014:
“We had the best year ever … God is moving, and we need to be ready at all times with His Word. Our Harvest project (Nov/Dec) and our Christmas project were wonderful. Totals for the 2 projects were 145,650 homes visited, 353,000 tracts distributed, and 8,198 responses. Believe me, it is awesome.
“I can’t explain the feeling when I go through all the reports that come from our six regions. The other day, in just one day, more than 11,000 homes received two or three tracts per home. If I remember correctly, we had over 1,200 responses. God is so GOOD, dear friends. We are VERY excited about our next container (we are always excited about our containers). May our Lord and God bless WMP even MORE.”
Distributors all over Madagascar look to Dries for a supply of literature from the containers WMP regularly sends him. Islands Mission is leading an inter-denominational church-planting movement in the Indian Ocean islands. Already, third-generational churches have been planted in 1,500 remote villages. But in Madagascar’s mountainous region, crisscrossed with rivers, there are more than 15,000 unreached villages hidden in dense rainforest, many not even appearing on a map. “The people groups in these villages are steeped in generations of witchcraft, superstition, and animistic religions – unreached, and they need to be followers of Jesus Christ!” wrote Dinah R. when she asked WMP for the Malagasy material they need – more than 10,000 booklets for now.
Richard R. found WMP’s website and requested a small supply of booklets on behalf of a foundation focusing on the health of women looking for medical attention and financial aid in their fight against cancer. He wrote, “I saw these booklets for the first time in a waiting room of a private hospital. I took some and placed them also on my desk. I saw that the patients who came into my office were very interested to get some, either to practice English or really to look for help from God by reading them. I am not a good Christian, but I am trying to search a better way to help other
people who would like to get a chance to know the way to God with the help of your booklets.”
God’s love for Madagascar is obvious and so is His work there. WMP is glad to be a part of the continuing missionary tradition in this island nation – from the envoys of the London Missionary Society who first translated God’s Word into Malagasy to the devotion of Dries D. and so many other evangelistic distributors across the country today. May the Lord Jesus, the Word Himself, continue to make His love, a language free of mistranslation, clear to hearts in Madagascar, a land with a misplaced name.
[You can help supply God’s Word to Madagascar. Your gift of $20 provides for about 500 Scripture booklets; $100 helps to supply 2,500 booklets.]
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Grateful Quotes
Sharing God’s Word from Michigan
“The Children’s Church program here at our church adopted your organization for a month and raised $80.00 to help support theUSS Scripture Booklets project. We are a small church and generally have 4-6 kids in the Children’s Church, so we were very pleased with the amount donated.
“I have enclosed a check and a picture of Avalon, Amelia, Autumn, and Olivia – the girls present the day the picture was taken. They took this very seriously and were very interested to hear all the info about what you are doing to spread the Good News. I actually have some of your booklets and passed them out in class and asked the girls to read them at home, but Avalon wanted to read hers immediately and did not put it down until she had read it through.
“Thanks for all you are doing in the name of Jesus!” -Theresa P., Michigan
Meet the Team
Stephen M., Creative Team
I heard about World Missionary Press when my parents discovered WMP via Intercristo in 1994. After a trip to Indiana to investigate, and serious prayer for guidance, we moved from Reading, Pennsylvania, so they both could start working here. I was five when we relocated in September of that year.
When I was sixteen, I had the opportunity to fill a part-time position as an assistant to my dad, who was WMP’s Systems Manager at the time. I’ve been here for nine years, serving in a variety of areas including IT, data entry, field representation, and shipment tracking. Currently I’m working in the Creative Development department, which involves editing and producing promotional videos, graphic design and illustration (in which I have a bachelor’s degree from Grace College), as well as writing for WMP’s monthly newsletter.
I appreciate the opportunity to serve God alongside Christians of various backgrounds and convictions who lay aside personal preferences and doctrine to cooperate for the sake of the gospel. It’s also a privilege to be part of something that impacts people all over the world. The gratitude and enthusiasm of so many who receive Scripture booklets from World Missionary Press inspire me.
In my spare time I enjoy drawing and painting, dabbling in music and writing, reading, and spending time with friends. I’m an only child and don’t live very close to many relatives, but I’ve been blessed with a number of close friendships here in Indiana, and there are always opportunities to travel and see extended family. I commute to WMP each day from Winona Lake, where World Missionary Press began and where I attended college while commuting from home in New Paris.
WMP Partners Around the World
Dennis G., Distributor in China
Since 2006, WMP has provided 432 ten-pound boxes of Scripture booklets for Dennis and his teams from the U.S. to distribute in China. Two pallets of literature will soon be produced and shipped to a storage/distribution facility in Hong Kong to help keep teams supplied.
WMP: Please describe your background and current ministry.
Dennis: I began gospel literature distribution in China about ten years ago. Our focus has been on unreached people groups. Over the years we have used WMP booklets to reach Chinese, Mongolian, Muslim, and Buddhist cities, towns, and villages across China. I would estimate that we’ve distributed several tons of literature in areas that had never heard a clear presentation of the gospel.
WMP: How does the availability of free literature affect your evangelism in China?
Dennis: Having access to good, free gospel literature has been essential to fulfilling our mission of reaching the vast areas we focus on. This year alone we hope to take as many as four or five teams to China. Each team works for as long as a month to see that unreached areas hear the gospel message. I honestly don’t know how we would do what we do if it weren’t for the help we get from WMP.
Our supplies from WMP are used immediately. We order just enough to cover the needs of the teams on the field at that given time. We are currently obtaining a large shipment (384 boxes) from WMP that we hope will greatly meet the needs of our teams for a number of months.
WMP: What challenges do you face in the free and open distribution of WMP literature?
Dennis: Since the open spread of the gospel is not possible in our target country (China), our work is done during the night hours. We have been able to saturate areas with the Good News. A partner missionary on the ground in China is able to follow up when the teams have completed their work.
WMP: How would you describe the effectiveness of the topical Scripture booklets?
Dennis: It is an awesome thing to see people standing on the street or at the door of their business or home, reading the literature they find in the morning as they begin their day. This is by no means an unusual occurrence. In the mornings after we work the street in areas near schools, we often see young children sharing the gospel booklets they find with their friends. These booklets are read in China!
We work in areas where we often don’t know of any established churches. These are truly unreached areas. Often these booklets are the first seed sown in these areas. Thank you for your prayers for us as we work in China. We are very thankful for the help we receive from WMP to get the job done.
President’s Corner
We continue to stand in awe of all God has been doing at World Missionary Press. Now that new (for us) equipment is in place and operational, we are experiencing the greatly increased potential for productionwe anticipated. The six-color press and direct-to-plate equipment give much-needed flexibility in scheduling production of covers; and wow, can that press produce! The Pivano cover cutter is running like a champ, turning large press sheets into bindery-size sheets. The Osako bindery and our newest piece of equipment, the Palamides stacker/bundler, give greater efficiency and higher speed when binding and boxing Scripture booklets. What a blessing it was, as we zoomed throughmore than 9 million Help From Above-size equivalency on our binderies during the month of January! Praise the Lord!
The challenge now is to make use of this new production capacity to meet the urgent high demand for Scripture booklets throughout the world. Our operating budget for this fiscal year allows for production of 7.5 million booklets per month on average – but the need is for so much more! Would you join with us, fervently seeking the Lord for a significant increase in income – so we can bump that monthly average up to 9 million or more? The need is great. Distributors in countries around the world are crying out for more of God’s eternal life-giving Word, and our time is short. Because of economy of operation, WMP Treasurer Marie Mack calculates it will cost $45,000 per month over budget to increase from a monthly average of 7.5 to 9 million (only about 3 cents per additional booklet for both production and shipping).
Thank you so much for your faithful support for World Missionary Press! We greatly appreciate your prayers, all the time freely given each month by hundreds of volunteer workers, and the funds donated to the work of the Lord. We praise the Lord for you!
A long-time WMP supporter and distributor writes,
“Be encouraged and press on in this life-giving eternal work. Praise God for increases in output of Scripture booklets and Bible studies and all other food for the soul. Your improvements/changes in packaging the Scripture booklets [Palamides bundles] are making a difference in their condition upon arrival. The paper banding of bundles within the boxes helps keep them from moving and becoming bent and folded-over…. The new glossy color cover on Who Am I That A King Would Die In My Place? is outstanding.”
What a blessing to serve the King of kings in such a meaningful way!
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“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” —Hebrews 11:1
World Missionary Press celebrates the beginning of our 64th year. WMP began in the hearts of Watson and Rose Goodman while they were missionaries.
On their wedding day they dedicated themselves to missions. Having died to self and being totally committed to God, they began their 16-year ministry in South Africa. In 1951, they established Gospel Centre Work, a faith ministry, concentrating their efforts mainly on evangelizing the children and youth in neglected black areas.
At home, the Goodman’s would clear off their dining room table, place a mimeograph machine on it, and run pages with Scriptures and pictures to color for the 2,000 black children they taught weekly in the five townships surrounding Germiston, South Africa.
Watson and Rose’s printing progressed to a small printing press in their garage. They began printing the 48-page Scripture booklet Help From Above in the Zulu language, stapling the booklets by hand.
Watson’s vision for reaching the world through Scripture booklets distributed free of charge grew in intensity. In 1961 God led them to the U.S. to establish World Missionary Press in Winona Lake, Indiana. A small building was dedicated November 11, 1961.
Watson’s initial three goals for WMP were:
1. To believe God eventually for a million dollars a year.
2. To send out one million Scripture booklets a month free of charge.
3. To print in 300 languages.
God’s provision has far surpassed Watson’s first two goals. Income has risen to about $4 million a year. WMP currently prints 10 million Scripture booklets per month for free distribution in 210 countries and islands. The third goal was reached in January 2000 with the production of language number 300 – Hmong Daw for Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. We are currently printing in more than 350 languages.
In 1970 WMP outgrew its Winona Lake facilities, and due to rezoning was unable to expand on-site. Believing that “disappointments are God’s appointments,” the Goodman’s searched for a new location.
A couple from New Paris, Indiana, who had been driving to Winona Lake to volunteer at World Missionary Press, had been impressed by God not to sell their land in New Paris just yet. When Watson and Rose Goodman approached them about buying the land for WMP’s new headquarters, the couple offered the land at one-fourth of its value, because it was to be used for the Lord’s work.
Rose always remembered her precious black children in South Africa, whom she tearfully but obediently left behind. So in 1991, when given the opportunity, she gladly wrote the illustrated children’s booklet, The Way to God. WMP now prints 19 publications, including topical Scripture booklets, Bible studies, and New Testaments.
Watson and Rose passed the baton when they retired from WMP in 1987 to begin another work, Enterprises For Emmanuel, producing children’s salvation coloring books including He Is Risen!. However, in January of 2000 EFE closed its doors and publication rights were given to World Missionary Press to produce the coloring books. Watson Goodman passed away in January 2002 at the age of 82. Rose Goodman passed away in February 2006 at the age of 86.
On September 14, 2013, WMP’s members and Board of Directors unanimously elected Harold Mack – WMP’s long-time Director of Global Distribution and Director of Information Technology – as president of World Missionary Press. He succeeded Jay Benson, who went to be with the Lord on January 5th, 2013 after serving almost 25 years as WMP president. Vicky (Goodman) Benson, oldest child of Watson and Rose, served as WMP vice president until she went to be with the Lord on Saturday, April 23, 2022.
Harold Mack retired as President on August 1st, 2024. Currently Steve Chupp, Vice-Chairman of the Board is Interim President.
You can read more about Watson and Rose, including their time as missionaries in South Africa and the founding of World Missionary Press, from Footprints of Faith by clicking one of the following links: English or Spanish.
For 63-plus years Scripture booklet production and free worldwide distribution have continued through dependence on God and the efforts of staff, volunteers, and distributors, just as Watson and Rose Goodman had first envisioned.
“But the Word of God grew and multiplied.” –Acts 12:24
Twelve:24 Capital Campaign – $900,000
We are pleased to extend a personal invitation for you to take part in our significant Capital Campaign, a vital initiative for World Missionary Press that has not occurred in over two decades. Our Twelve:24 Capital Campaign is being introduced to fund the purchase of a second King Web Press. We have agreed to purchase a refurbished press, which will be accompanied by a custom-built folder designed for compatibility. We expect the new press to arrive in early 2026.
Our current web press has proven to be an invaluable asset to WMP for over 20 years. The addition of another web press will significantly increase our capacity to print God’s Word. This campaign presents World Missionary Press with the chance to acquire a rebuilt web press and bindery line. The web press will be entirely rebuilt to match our current model, incorporating enhanced performance upgrades. Additionally, the new bindery will enable us to manage the increased capacity resulting from the Web Press acquisition, ensuring the long-term sustainability of World Missionary Press in our mission to print and distribute God’s Word at an unprecedented scale.
We have found great favor with our web press builder and through a great capital machine supplier. Our total investment will be around $900,000 dollars.
Your generosity is vital to the success of this campaign. Together, we can impact the world for Christ through WMP for generations to come.
Thank you for your continued support!
In Christ,
Steve Chupp
Interim President
Why Your Support Matters
Direct Impact: Your contribution will directly fund the Twelve:24 campaign, which will expand our web press and bindery production capability. Our current web press is running at full capacity to keep up with demand.
Reaching New Heights: This campaign will help us produce more Scripture booklets and reduce our production times. It will allow us to reach more people, provide for distributors more effectively, dedicate to larger projects to help meet needs in the missionary fields, and help us ensure the supply chain of hope continues.
Legacy of Change: By supporting this campaign, you become an integral part of shaping World Missionary Press and its future and leave a lasting positive impact on the world for Christ.
Thank you so much for your support! Your prayers and gifts towards the cost of these items will greatly benefit our efforts to meet the growing need for Scripture booklets around the world! To help financially with these needs, please designate your gift towards one of the above items, or to “Capital Needs” to be used towards any of our needed capital items.
God bless you!
World Missionary Press, Inc.
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New Paris, IN 46553
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World Missionary Press celebrates the beginning of our 64th year. WMP began in the hearts of Watson and Rose Goodman while they were missionaries.
Watson and Rose’s printing progressed to a small printing press in their garage. They began printing the 48-page Scripture booklet Help From Above in the Zulu language, stapling the booklets by hand.
