'SOON' is a single-sheet evangelistic paper in easy-English and a range of other languages, aimed primarily at those who speak English as a second language. It is distributed worldwide by post. Individuals, very often non-Christians, ask to be placed on the mailing list for a year. Many Christian ministries use it in evangelism and TEFL teachers often find it useful in their classes. OM, for example, frequently use SOON in their outreaches, including their maritime ministries.
SOON does not 'look' Christian, and secular-sounding headlines are used. This deliberature strategy allows acceptance among those who might not willingly read a 'preachy' publication. Emeka (18) from Nigeria, recently wrote to us:
"I am a Muslim in religion and I don't have interest in reading any Christian magazine. A day came when I was going home from school – at the school gate I saw a paper on the ground. I decided to pick it up and read the content in it. I read The cyclist saved from death, Animal Olympics, Everyone is a winner, Wall of fire, and Save your land. All the topics were interesting to me and I decided to write to SOON for more copies. I want to make up my mind to change from Muslim to Christian. Sir, please I am pleading to SOON to send a Bible to me to be able to practice Christian faith. I am also interested in free postal Bible course for studying."The editing policy is explained here in more detail.
The paper is available free in reasonable quantity to any Christian ministry who can make use of it. As a 'faith mission', SOON makes no charge for copies, though for larger quantities, some help with the cost of printing and shipping is appreciated. Through the generosity and partnership of Christian Publicity Organisation, production costs are very low – about £5 ($8) per pack of 800.
Some sample issues are available to download as PDF files for you to preview or print out your
own copies, and also the associated evangelistic Bible correspondence course.
You will need the free Adobe Acrobat v3+ software to read them:
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Bible course 1 part 1 |
Bible course 1 part 2 |
C2 questions |
C2 study |
C3 questions |
C3 study book |
C4 questions |
C4 study book
Your Choice – course sign-off leaflet
Although articles are copyright, SOON Ministries are usually very happy to give permission for articles (or the Bible course) to be reprinted or translated. SOON will happily try to encourage and help anyone else wishing to set up an outreach postal literature ministry in any language.
We are also happy to encourage Christian ministries to reprint portions or the entire New Testament for their own outreach. A printing ministry we know would love to collaborate with other Christian groups to produce, for example, Mark's Gospel as an A3 (11" x 17") 4/8 page production. Four pages (i.e. one sheet of A2 paper folded once) can carry half the Gospel, including graphics. Eight pages (two folded A2 sheets) is enough to print the whole Gospel. Their estimated printing costs would be about 3 UK pennies (4.5 US cents) per sheet. Contact us if you wish to contact them.
We also offer a small-group study booklet on Ephesians, free to download and reprint.
Read the stories of Jane and Beryl – editors of the Pulaar/Fulfulde and Swahili papers.
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