Articles from CLC India

July 2025 Project Update: CLC-ELS Chennai Building Project

Our team in India is in the final stages of one of their most ambitious projects to date: the construction of a brand-new ministry building in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which began as a vision born out of both necessity and faith. The Lord stirred a thought in the heart of the National Director, Justin Chellappan: What if we build our own space?

Bibles for Young Hearts - CLC World Magazine 2025/02

By God’s grace, CLC is active in 43 countries, where national teams faithfully distribute Bibles and quality Christian literature through bookshops, online stores, and wholesale networks. CLC is actively publishing Bibles and books in 23 languages to meet the spiritual needs of people in their own culture and context.

Bibles for Young Hearts: CLC Children's Bible Project - On the Cover

Children are naturally open to the Gospel—but only if they can access it in a way they understand. The project focuses on countries with small evangelical populations and limited printing resources, including Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Pakistan, Portugal, and Thailand.

25,000 Children’s Bibles Project: Help us print 25,000 in multiple languages

During a trip to our CLC ministry in Chiang Mai, Thailand last year, I was struck by how few Bibles were available for children in the Thai language. I knew that we had to do something about this lack of materials for different age groups for our precious children. As I spoke to some colleagues, we realised that this was a problem in many countries.

Update: Chennai Building Project

ELS India is currently in the middle of a life-changing construction project in the city of Chennai. This project has been a long time in the making and is now becoming a reality. The fourstorey building will have parking on the ground floor, a 222 m2 showroom, conference rooms, and a large number of rooms to accommodate guests on the top floor.

India: Country Highlight - Impacting lives through books

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Evangelical Literature Service in the beautiful and diverse nation of India, which is home to 1.39 billion people. The work is continuing to grow and includes 23 bookstores, publishing, mobile ministry, outlets, and web sales.

Meet: Justin Chellappan, ELS National Director

The youngest of six, Justin was born into a pastoral family. His father, born Hindu, accepted Jesus as his Saviour after seeing the Lord move greatly in his family. Justin committed his life to the Lord at 14 years old, but because of the hardships he saw in the ministry, he decided to follow a different path.

Publishing In India

Through the publishing ministry, our teams can help shape and influence the reading culture in their respective countries. To this day, the Lord continues to use the printed page as a tool for evangelism, hope, equipping, and transformation.

The Early Days by V.M. Abraham

In 1990, a young Burmese interested in involving himself with literature evangelism. Jacob Mung, then 26, was given intensive training for about a year under our personal supervision and guidance and, in 1991, he was commissioned by ELS for the work of the Lord in his own country, Myanmar.