Sower Publishing Centre

About the Ministry

The Sower Publishing Centre is the publishing arm of The Bible Society of Singapore. We work in partnership with Christian agencies, churches, individuals and Bible Societies to produce Bibles and other Scriptural materials that cater to the needs of the people we serve, both locally and overseas. In collaboration with United Bible Societies, we have produced the Digital Bible Library containing texts in nearly 2,000 languages used by 6.1 billion people. We work on both print and digital formats to reach out and encourage people of all ages in their walk with God.

Testimonies

In 2012, St Andrew’s Cathedral commissioned us to produce and print a special bilingual Bible to mark their 150^th anniversary.

“St Andrew’s Cathedral is very thankful to The Bible Society of Singapore in the printing of our 150th anniversary ESV-RCUV bilingual Bible in year 2012. The leaders and staff of Bible Society have been very helpful, efficient and supportive in the whole planning and publishing process. We appreciate this partnership together.”  

-- Revd John Lin, Priest, St Andrew’s Cathedral

In year 2008, we were commissioned by a local church to produce The Story of Jesus comic in Tetum language. Thousands of copies were mass distributed to children in Timor Leste.

“We gave them out one by one as everyone seemed to want a copy and were crowding round the people distributing them. The booklets were fantastic for us and seemed like an answered prayer. In fact, it was. Thank you very much.”

-- Hwei Fen, Chairman, Missions Committee, Living Hope Methodist Church

St Andrew’s Cathedral commissioned us to produce and print the “Gospel of John” portion for outreach purpose in 2009 with a second reprint in 2011.

“The Sower Publishing Centre, the publishing arm of Bible Society of Singapore continues today its work on the premise that God keeps His promise, “my word... that goes out from my mouth... shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose.” (Is 55:11) Our experience of printing “Gospel of John” portions customised with summary of the Gospel, Response Form and Service details has been most fruitful and satisfactory with economical, quality finish and friendly portions that are displayed at and available for enquirers at the Cathedral Welcome Centre.”

-- Revd Canon Louis Tay, Associate Vicar, St Andrew’s Cathedral

The Methodist Church in Singapore commissioned the Sower Publishing Center to publish a commemorative book  “Days of Darkness Days of Light” in 2015 to mark the 70^th Anniversary of the official end of the Japanese Occupation in Singapore.

"Writing, editing and publishing a book is never a simple job and having good editing, designing and printing support means that the whole publishing process is made less stressful. In engaging Sower Publishing Centre for our recent project, we received exactly what was needed to make it work and importantly to meet the deadline; all thanks to their team consisting of Director, Sub-Editor and Designer. You can definitely depend on Sower Publishing Centre!"

-- Jenny Ng, Manager Archives & History Library, The Methodist Church in Singapore       

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