CLC IN ASIA

A Ray of Hope for the People of Myanmar

Jacob Mung, National Director of CLC Myanmar, is leading an initiative to bring the life-changing message of the Gospel to his people through the distribution of Burmese Bibles. “The people are desperate. The future feels hopeless. But God’s Word offers a hope that will never fail.”

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.

A Miracle Month at the Surabaya Bookshop

Read a testimony from our Surabaya Bookshop in Indonesia.

Update: 50,000 Children's Bibles Donation Project

Our project has grown from 25,000 to 50,000 Children’s Bibles! Praise God! Some of these Bibles are beginning to arrive in various countries. New Bibles for children have arrived at our CLC shop in Thailand & India.

Meet me in Rome: CLC International 2024 Council - September 24th - 30th, 2024

During the last week in September the CLC International Council meetings took place just outside Rome. It was a wonderful time of encouraging, learning, sharing and worshiping.

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.

Meet the ELS Ministry in India - CLC World Magazine 2024/02

Our dedicated team manages 23 bookshops in the country, mostly in the south where the majority of Christians live. It is one of the countries with the most staff and also the largest distribution of Christian literature in the CLC International Fellowship.

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.