Lifewords

This has been done traditionally through literature distribution, but more recently includes websites, film, educational programmes and live events.

Scripture Gift Mission (SGM) was founded in 1888 by a printer named William Walters, who believed the Bible should be accessible to all.

His two main innovations were to make the Bible available free of charge, and to dispatch two painters (James Clark and Henry Andrew Harper) to Palestine to produce illustrations.

In 1945, the society distributed hundreds of thousands of New Testaments according to the text of the Miniature Bible by Franz Eugen Schlachter to German POWs in English prisons.

In the post-war years, SGM continued to expand, starting offices in Australia, South Africa, Poland and India, among others.

The New Testament in Russian from Scripture Gift Mission published in the late 19th or early 20th century