The first book we produced through Clear and Simple Media was Simple Truths for the New Believer. We initially developed this small evangelical catechism to aid church planters in Vietnam in training new believers. Since its publication, the book has been translated into more than fifty languages and is used in multiple countries worldwide. The book has been in distribution for nearly 20 years.

Field testing has demonstrated the book to be a valuable resource in multiple cultures. Church planters have reported that it has been helpful in discipling believers from Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu backgrounds. But, in some regions, we have been asked if we could produce an even shorter version of the book. So we created a “short” version of the book to focus on the “basic truths that explain the gospel.” The book, titled God’s Story, Our Story , contains 64 questions and answers (instead of 144) that are most basic to the understanding of the Gospel. The pastors and church-planters who requested the book intend to use it with people that they identify as “seekers and the newest of the new believers.”

In September, our translators completed the Swahili translation of the original book, Simple Truths for New Believers [HERE]. When our primary translator (Marwa) discovered that we had a new book and a shorter version available, he asked if he could go to work on putting God’s Story, Our Story into Swahili.

We said, Yes, of course. 

We are pleased to announce that HADITHI YA MUNGU HADITHI YETU (God’s Story, Our Story) has been completed and is now available in Swahili.

Thank you to all of those whose faithful support makes things like this possible.