The relationship between Clear & Simple Media and Call of Love Ministries has proved to be one of our most interesting stories. Call of Love first connected with us during a conference in the United States, where they discovered our book, “Travel Guide to the Bible.” It was not long after that introduction that we partnered in a project to translate that book into Arabic.

Once the book was translated and put into production, CoL began using it to follow up with people from the Arabic-speaking world by sending them the ebook version. The results were so well received that CoL decided to begin producing a series of short videos based on the chapters of the Travel Guide. While that project has faced some delays, the video shorts are now in production.

That relationship, which began back in 2020, has now led to another very exciting opportunity. The original translators of the Arabic version of the book have launched a publishing company. The company, based in Egypt, has asked us to grant permission for the enterprise to publish and distribute the book through its newly established network. While we do not know the volume of books that will eventually be in circulation, the original print run will produce 3,000 books.

Since so many of you have been tracking with the Arabic projects, I thought you might see how launching new projects, projects with amazing potential, come from simple beginnings. Here are the two bits of correspondence that started it all.

Hello Lee and Tom, 

I hope you are both doing well! 

I received this request from the Christian company that helped translate and design your book.

Let me know whether you are interested. 

Warmly, 

Samya (Call of LOVE)

Here is the correspondence she was referring to.

Hello Sister Samya, (CALL of LOVE)

I would like to encourage you by the great news about our start up publishing House: Enlightenment for Translation and Publishing. God opens new and many doors for ministry in the Arab countries. We have opened channels with various respected publishing houses such as Baker, Tyndale, IVP, Crossway and others to publish their materials. 

Also, we thought of the possibility to publish the book of “Travel Guide to the Bible” that we translated to arabic. We think it will be great if we print this work for those who prefer to read a hard copy of this valuable study. We have two options:

1. To print a number of books according to the need and sell it with a low price that covers the cost of printing and distribution.

2. To print 3000 copies for distribution, but in this case we will need to raise support to cover the cost. It may be around $4500.

Certainly, we will need a license from the proprietor giving us the permission to publish the work.

We believe that this work will be a meaningful addition and a real blessing to our readership across the Arabic-speaking context.

We look forward to working together on bringing this title to a wider audience.

Brother Youssef

While we receive many project requests from various sources, we use a filtering process to evaluate them. But, as we have emphasized time and time again, our best filtering processes are anchored in the partnerships we have developed along the way. Call of Love has proven to be a remarkable partner, and given their relationships with ministries in the Arabic world, their recommendation that we become involved here gives us great confidence that God will use this new relationship to encourage His church among the more than 420,000,000 Arabic speakers worldwide.

NOTE: Twenty-two (22) states have Arabic as an official language. Most of these states are members of the Arab League. They are:

In the Middle East: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Palestine.

In North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Mauritania.

In the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros.