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• 7 December 2011 Prestigious State Award for Bible League
• 25 November 2011 Second Run of New CD Reflections 'In Word and Song'
• 21 October 2011 Anglican Retirement Residents Receive Free CD
• 10 October 2011 Bible League Releases 'Reflections in Word and Song' CD
• 1 September 2011 Bible League International Merger with World Bible Translation Center
• 18 March 2011 Urgent Request from Churches in Japan for Bibles
• 17 February 2011 Political unrest in Egypt, Middle East, North Africa provide opportunities to share Gospel
• 2 February 2011 Providing Bibles to Australia's Flood Victims 
• 12 March 2010 Bibles Reaching Indigenous Australians with the Easter message
• 30 September 2009 Bibles Destroyed as Bible League Manilla Office Deluged by Floods
• 18 February 2009 Providing Bibles to Victoria’s bushfire victims
• 27 November 2008 More than 1.8 million Scriptures placed with people in China
• 31 March 2008 Hundreds of Students get ready to Run4Bibles
• 15 January 2008 More than 17 million Scriptures provided for the Bible-less
• 13 September 2007 Bibles for Missions op shop raises $500,000

Latest Media Release - 7 December 2011

The Australian arm of Bible League International has picked up a prestigious State Fundraising Institute of Australia award for their recent “Emergency Bibles for Japan” campaign.

This is the first-ever fundraising award for Bible League!

The campaign was named ‘Best Use of Electronic Media' (Division A) at the annual awards ceremony held at the Darlington Centre in Sydney.

The award recognised the excellence of ‘Emergency Bibles for Japan’, which raised money to provide Bibles to meet the spiritual needs of the Japanese people following the magnitude 9 earthquake that hit the country’s North East in March this year.

Specifically, traditional and Manga (comic) Bibles were requested.

More than 20,000 people died in the natural disaster and another 100,000 were left homeless.

Bible League sprang into action, utlising web, SMS, email, social media (Facebook and Twitter) and direct phone contact to make  Australians aware of the plight of the Japanese.

The campaign was developed and implemented over an intensive 24 hour period, and was unique in that it was raising funds to cater to the spiritual rather than physical needs of the Japanese people.

The target of $50,000 was reached within 72 hours. Overall target income was in fact exceeded by 192%!

This is a remarkable fact considering 70% of Bible League supporters are of retirement age!

The campaign has now been passed on to the Fundraising Institute’s National body, where it is in the running for an Australia-wide  award, to be decided on the Gold Coast in March 2012.

For More Information or Interviews with Bible League CEO Grahame Smith please contact Bible League International on 02-4731 6599 or email info@bibleleague.com.au