David C Cook

Programs: Christian resources: david c cook is an industry-leading nonprofit provider of global christian resources, including sunday school curriculum, books, music, and other christian content. Learning resources: we partner with the local church by providing biblical resources created to help the church accomplish its mission to evangelize and disciple today's generations for christ. We publish both digital and print versions of bible-based sunday school curriculum. In addition, we develop and distribute evangelical products that serve the church. These products provide innovative and practical tools to use in a wide range of christian ministries. Products range from children's church material to youth and adult electives and training materials for pastors, teachers, and administrators. We also publish books to foster the spiritual growth of each member of the family and for pastors and leaders. We sell these resources through various channels, which include christian bookstores, religious and general distributors, american booksellers association bookstores, as well as directly to churches and para-church ministries around the world. Integrity music: david c cook purchased integrity music in june of 2011, becoming part of cook's already established kingsway label in eastbourne, england. Through integrity music, we help people worldwide experience the manifest presence of god. Music produces resources, which include cds, eps, lps, dvds, and songbooks from worship leaders who explore and articulate faith in jesus as well as publishes songs that contain lyrics that build, inspire, and instruct disciples in churches around the world. Overall, integrity's songwriters and artists are found in many parts of the world and share david c cook's view of the importance of discipleship. We understand the critical role that songs play in strengthening, inspiring, and building the church. The resources and songs are available through various channels (physical and digital), which include digital service providers (like apple music, spotify, amazon, google play, youtube, etc. ), christian bookstores, distributors, general market retailers, para-church ministries and direct to consumers.

global initiatives: global initiatives is the global arm of david c cook that provides cook-created material around the world for sale, when possible, and for subsidized or free distribution when local resources are limited. There are three main areas of focus: curriculum for at-risk children (which we call "life on life"), materials for spiritual formation in children, and leadership resources. Life on life curriculum. One of the most important responsibilities of the church today is to care for vulnerable children around the world who are at risk due to poverty, abuse, abandonment, or conflict in the home or community. While many good programs exist to help them with physical needs like food, shelter and education, far too little is done to address their significant emotional, social and spiritual needs. Through global initiatives, we provide a curriculum that fosters inner healing for children with wounded hearts. We co-create the curriculum with partners to meet the unique needs of each country. Currently, over thirteen million children are enrolled in 29 countries through translations into 13 languages. We also provide short crisis-response curriculum for adults to help children cope with trauma they have experienced due to earthquakes, outbreaks of illness like ebola, and crises that have forced them to become refugees. Materials for children. The action bible is a graphic novel-style version of the bible that contains 215 stories beautifully drawn by an experienced dc and marvel comic's artist. It has sold well over a million copies and has been translated into several languages. In conjunction with ministry partners, over the next several years there are plans to translate this into over 80 languages. In addition, it has spawned several derivative products, including the story of jesus, a 16- or 24-page booklet containing a clear gospel message. The story of jesus has been distributed in 95 countries and 53 languages. Over 49 million children have received a copy in the last five years. Another product spin-off, the action bible new testament, is now being used as the religious instruction manual for public school children in guatemala. Leadership resources. Grassroots leaders who have not had seminary-level training make up the vast majority of pastors and leaders. Their greatest need is for practical materials to help them better understand god's word so that they can apply it to their daily lives and to their teachings for their congregation. Part of david c cook's arsenal of resources is warren wiersbe's be series, 52 commentaries that encompass the entire bible. Written at the lay-level, we have translated them into dozens of languages at the request of pastors and leaders around the world. In book form, we have provided mini libraries of these and other leadership resources to 118,000 pastors in india and thousands more in africa. We are now providing them on sd cards in several languages in india and nepal so that pastors can easily access these commentaries on their phones.