Partners
While most of BVI’s materials are purchased or downloaded directly from BVI by individuals through our website, occasionally opportunities arise—especially internationally—to develop partnerships and licensing agreements that can open doors for wider distribution and accessibility in otherwise hard-to-reach areas. For many of these countries, solid, biblically-based children’s ministry materials simply aren’t available in their language. Even if they are, international shipping costs can be prohibitive for small churches and ministries working with limited budgets. Through these personalized licensing agreements, BVI works with each partner to allow the translation, printing, and distribution of specific titles in their own country. You can learn more about some of our ongoing partnerships below.
Wondering if a BVI licensing partnership could help your ministry? Contact us to discuss your needs!
The Middle East
BVI’s licensing agreement & partnership with Dar Manhal al Hayat in Beirut, Lebanon, began in 2023. While Dar Manhal is based in the country of Lebanon, its work reaches throughout the Arabic-speaking Middle East and Northern Africa. For over 60 years, this ministry has been translating, publishing, and distributing Christian resources in the Arabic language. We are excited to be able to share The Family Worship Series with this ministry, as well as several Bible lessons for Sunday School. As of 2025, Mark’s Gospel: Being Jesus’ Disciple has been fully translated into Arabic and is available for purchase through Dar Manhal, and efforts are underway to translate additional titles from this series.
Papua New Guinea
When the Hawes family began their ministry with ABWE in Papua New Guinea serving at a local Bible college, they had never even begun to imagine how the Lord would shape their paths. When one small public school Bible club using BVI lessons sparked interest for a similar program in more classes and schools, Tim Hawes reached out to BVI. Together, we developed a customized curriculum to meet the unique needs of these rural schools and, through our friends at Revival Movement Association in Northern Ireland, were able to provide 5,000 sets of professionally printed curriculum for the teachers in 2024. As of 2025, Bible clubs are happening in 37 schools spanning 7 provinces and reaching 11,000 children every week!
Mongolia
Mickey and Trina Cofer are missionaries in a small rural town in northern Mongolia. Through our licensing partnership, the Cofers and their connections have translated all 78 volumes of BVI’s Visualized Bible Series into the Mongolian language, with the intention of distributing these materials to 600 churches around the country. Distribution of these materials began in 2022, and Tom and Betsy Luttmann had the opportunity to visit and help with some of the early distribution efforts. Since then, the Cofers have expressed a desire to translate the Family Worship Series into Mongolian as well to help support first-generation Christian families in pursuing family discipleship. Translation and compositing work is underway, and we hope to be able to visit in 2026 to help with a family conference the Cofers plan to host at their facility.
Myanmar
In 2024, BVI became acquainted with Martin, a pastor and the leader of Gospel Outreach Mission in the country of Myanmar. Martin is deeply involved with a network of churches throughout the country and expressed a need for children’s ministry materials in two languages: Burmese and Mizo. Through a newly established licensing agreement, Martin and his team are working hard to translate several BVI materials and prepare them for printing & distribution to churches. In September of 2025, BVI’s Executive Director, Tom Luttmann, had the opportunity to travel to Myanmar to help lead training for the pastors and teachers who will be using these valuable materials.
India
The leader of a children’s ministry in India wandered into the BVI office one day and was immediately inspired by the resources he found. His curiosity that day opened the door for what is now a long-term partnership and licensing agreement. Based in South-Central India, our partners have the opportunity to present the Gospel to tens of thousands of children every single year. They have been instrumental in translating our materials into Telugu and printing many of our stories and Bible lessons in-country for use in their ministry.
Canada & Cuba
BVI’s partnership with Club DJ (David & Jonathan) in Saskatchewan, Canada, is one of our longest-standing partnerships. As they developed their own Bible Club curriculum, they became acquainted with BVI’s Bible lessons and requested to use our illustrations & teaching texts as part of this project. While the vision for this curriculum was just for use in Canada, the Lord led our partners to a unique opportunity to share their materials with a network of small churches in Cuba. Though the task of translating the entire curriculum into Spanish initially seemed impossible, when they learned that BVI’s Bible lessons were already translated, the task suddenly became much more manageable. Today, despite hurdles and challenges along the way, the Club DJ curriculum is being used in 350 Cuban churches, with more being added every year.
Guatemala
Called to Serve (Ministerio Llamados a Servir) is an organization based in Guatemala and run by national Christians. This ministry strives to support children’s ministry efforts around the country, especially by equipping and training pastors and teachers in local churches. Our partnership will allow them to print and distribute lessons from our Visualized Bible Series in Spanish, as well as support training efforts for 1,500 pastors and teachers spanning over 100 churches.
Central & South America
Editorial Bautista Independiente (EBI) was founded by missionaries with a heart to make theological, Christ-centered material available in Spanish across Latin America. Their goal is to equip churches with strong resources that support spiritual growth and learning across all ages—including children! BVI helps EBI pursue this goal through a licensing agreement. Spanish-speaking Christians across Central and South America can purchase many of BVI’s missionary stories in Spanish directly through EBI and their distributors throughout the region.
Brazil
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) operates in the country of Brazil as Aliança Pró Evangelização das Crianças (APEC). Through Bible clubs and other children’s outreach ministries, APEC is reaching children all over Brazil with the gospel. Since 2018, BVI has had a licensing agreement with APEC to support them in printing and distributing various BVI materials in Portuguese for use around the country.