Bible Visuals International

03/09/2022

John Newton on the history of mankind:

“Without the clue and the light which the Word of God affords—the history of mankind, of any, of every age, only presents to view—a labyrinth and a chaos; a detail of wickedness and misery to make us tremble; and a confused jumble of interfering incidents, as destitute of stability, connection, or order—as the clouds which fly over our heads.

But with the Scripture key—all is plain, all is instructive. Then I see, truly there is a God, who governs the earth, who pours contempt upon princes, takes the wise in their own craftiness, over-rules the wrath and pride of man to bring his own designs to pass, and restrains all that is not necessary to that end; blasting the best concerted enterprises at one time, by means apparently slight, and altogether unexpected, and at other times producing the most important events from instruments and circumstances which are at first thought too feeble and trivial to deserve notice.“

03/08/2022

Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountain: The Elinor Young Story

Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains is now available in family format directly through Amazon! Add it to your next order. You can even select Bible Visuals International through the Amazonsmile program to help us create more resources for Helping Children See Jesus!
#Amazon

Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountain: The Elinor Young Story

03/07/2022

We had a great weekend at Westminster’s Mission Conference which included seeing author, Katie Zappitella, and illustrator, Penn Tomassetti. Katie’s book, Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains, is now available in family format. Penn’s artwork is profiled in our visualized hymn, This Is My Father’s World, and is now available in print too. We are blessed by this congregation’s many investments in the work of Helping Children See Jesus!

02/21/2022

Pray for our graphic artists as they are working hard to finish colorizing our entire Visualized Bible Series this spring. These updates will supply some immediate and ongoing needs among our international partners.
GUYANA—The Girwarnaths need new sets to replace those lost in a January port fire. For use in 20 churches
MONGOLIA—The Cofers need the updates to complete printing of the entire series this year. Sets will be given to 600 churches through the country.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA—The Hawes have adapted the series to supply a Release Time curriculum for the country’s public schools.
INDIA—The Guntis use these Bible lessons for their outreaches including their January VBS which reached 50,000 children this year.

02/19/2022

What does this mean?

I think it means you should come visit our showroom! 650 Main St., Akron, PA (regular hours M-Th 8:00-4:30. Call for other times)

02/12/2022

02/10/2022

We connected via Zoom this am with our partners in Mongolia, Mickey and Trina Cofer. Friends, this dear brother and sister have been laboring for years with coworkers to supply 600+ Mongolian churches with our entire 312 Bible lesson series. All has been translated. New Testament lessons printed. What remains is the Old Testament lessons. Production cost will total around $48,000. We share their desire to supply these sets to these churches by Christmas of 2022. Learn more and help here!
https://biblevisuals.org/production-projects/#mongolia

02/09/2022

02/08/2022

Got to stop by Treasures of Grace Homeschool Co-op today and see them sharing the John Newton story in their elementary chapel time. The PowerPoint format is perfect for this kind of setting. It’s a great time to share this story as Newton wrote the words to Amazing Grace 250 years ago this year. It was introduced on New Years Day 1773.

02/01/2022

Discipleship Matters

Our Mark's Gospel Family Worship Series book is now $15 through February because we want to do everything we can to support the work of family discipleship. https://conta.cc/3GdAoYJ

FWS: Mark’s Gospel $15 through February Discipleship matters. It’s not the task of only the spiritual leaders in a church. It’s not an “app” or “extra” the Christian can choose to add on to his or her

01/31/2022

Pray for the Girwanauths, our ministry partners in Guyana, South America. We supplied them with over 500 printed Bible lessons books in the fall while they were stateside. The materials were going to be shared by 20 churches in the country. However, these and other supplies were lost in a container port fire this month.

They are unsure if the port will cover any of the loss. Either way, we are going to get replacements ready. If you would like to help, you can donate towards our Helen Odenwelder mission fund which is used for needs such as this. https://biblevisuals.org/product/donation-product/

01/27/2022

Getting close to releasing our new family format edition of Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains about missionary Elinor Young.

01/17/2022

Glad to be a part of the Arch Ministries conference in Florida this week and to supply the attendees with a copy of our new Family Worship Series book on Mark’s Gospel.

01/13/2022

My mini-me helper at the office yesterday.

01/11/2022

Pray for our partners in India this week who are in the midst of a VBS outreach to 50,000 children.

01/11/2022

Pray for our partners at Good Life Ministries as they are in the midst of their VBS outreach to 50,000 children this week. BVI provides the visualized Bible lessons which are printed in India and supplied to the hundreds of teachers needed for this Gospel opportunity.

01/04/2022

Rebecca "Becky" Forwood Nicholson Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Our dear friend, Becky Nicholson is enjoying the presence of the Savior she so often rejoiced in here on earth. Becky served in our office for several years and was often the friendly voice of BVI heard by ministry partners when they called the office. Our staff recalled that those conversations often resulted in new friendships as Becky’s love for the Lord and others was evident in her word and deeds. We give thanks that the Lord allowed us to serve alongside her in helping children see Jesus.

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12/13/2021

$15 each thru Wednesday! Because we want more testimonies like Isabel’s! https://conta.cc/3ymbxQ1

12/08/2021

Come by the showroom for Christmas gifts and maybe a coffee😀

12/08/2021

Looking for some Christmas gifts for children or the whole family? Stop by our showroom in Akron to pick up some of our visualized mission biographies and stories. Plus, we have our new Family Devotional on Mark’s Gospel! Our showroom is usually open 8:30am-4:30pm M-TH. Call us if you need to come at a different time (717-859-1131). Online ordering available at www.biblevisuals.org

12/04/2021

Stories in time for Christmas https://conta.cc/31uYMGk

11/30/2021

NOW AVAILABLE: Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains

Giving Tuesday / New releases / FREE Advent Calendar & More https://conta.cc/3rtKeSB

Giving Tuesday / Family Worship / FREE Advent Calendar & More Our ExtraGive total earlier this month totaled $24,060–just under our $25,000 goal! If you missed out on that opportunity, you can make an

11/20/2021

EXTRAGIVE update

Just $3000 away from our ExtraGive goal! It’s been a great day so far and it’s not over yet. https://conta.cc/3DAKqTb

There’s still time to help us reach our goal and we’re almost there! Thank you for a great EXTRAGIVE so far. Many of you have had a part in this special opportunity and we are only about $5000 away fr

11/19/2021

New Release: Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains. Watch the unboxing video with Elinor, Katie and Del. Plus, there’s still time to support BVI during ExtraGive today. https://conta.cc/32coVtX

11/19/2021

Here’s authors Jeff Kilcup and Katie Zappitella with some of this year’s harvest—our first Family Worship Book on Mark’s Gospel (Jeff) and our new mission story, Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains (Katie). Your support today during ExtraGive will help us to produce more resources like this with the purpose of Helping Children See Jesus! #ExtraGive https://www.extragive.org/organizations/bible-visuals-international

11/19/2021

Big day here at the BVI office. It’s EXTRAGIVE and its release day for Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains. Author Katie Zappitella will be here soon to open up these boxes we just received from the printer! Elinor Young and Del Thompson (illustrator) will be joining us via Zoom. Watch for the video later today. #ExtraGive

11/19/2021

Intercessor: Special EXTRAGIVE edition

Special EXTRAGIVE edition of The Intercessor. https://conta.cc/3ctb8RK

Piepgrass legacy / Elinor Young story launch / Planting Seeds / Octavos & PODS Arlene Piepgrass served as an author for many of the Visualized Bible lessons. BVI founder, Helen Odenwelder, asked Arlen

11/18/2021

A short update from the Luttmanns and a reminder that tomorrow is ExtraGive! https://conta.cc/2Z0K8WH

11/15/2021

Love seeing this pic from Shepherd’s Cup in Brooklyn, NY. Do you spy the BVI family format book?

It was our pleasure to serve you, Nadia and Jonwoo! So glad you enjoy dining in with us and experience peace of mind here. See you again soon! 😊

11/10/2021

Luttmann and Kilcup kids having fun last evening hitting the Oregon Trail. Glad to have our families serving alongside each other at BVI!

11/09/2021

Got some extra help today working on thank you notes. You can obtain a signed original by Ginger by remembering to support BVI on Friday, November 19th during ExtraGive! https://www.extragive.org/organizations/bible-visuals-international

11/08/2021

Praying for the persecuted church. #howfirmafoundation #persecutedchurch

11/06/2021

Spent part of yesterday afternoon working in our church yard with the family. Grateful to see this sign here and the opportunity it represents. BVI partners with B2S by supplying visuals for their release time Bible elective for public schools. You can remember both ministries on Friday, November 19th during ExtraGive! #extragive #bible2school

11/05/2021

New release! How Firm a Foundation https://conta.cc/3mUUUXL

11/04/2021

We’re testing our Print-on-demand format of certain item using our new printer! Thought it would be appropriate to use this illustration of William Tyndale who thought about the importance of content AND formats. Did you know that Tyndale’s first printing of the New Testament was printed in octavo format? That allowed 16 pages to be printed on one folded sheet of paper and resulted in a small enough book that could be easily hidden since these bibles were considered illegal. They were smuggled into England in cotton bales. #WilliamTyndale