Can you imagine a world filled with Christians who know God deeply and live with single-minded devotion to make His glory known?
Men and women would embrace their dignity as people created in God’s image. Families would thrive by reflecting divine love. Nations would prioritize true righteousness.
That is not the world you and I inhabit—not yet, and it won’t come without deliberate, faithful discipleship in the truth.
Ours is a fallen, sinful world plagued by animosity toward God and ignorance of His revelation. Into this darkness, the Lord Jesus Christ sends His church to form disciples in the truth of His Word (Matt. 28:18–20). Ligonier Ministries seeks to strengthen the church for this Great Commission by providing trusted Bible teaching for the whole Christian life and for the whole world.
Dr. R.C. Sproul expressed the comprehensive mission of this teaching fellowship with a stirring statement: “I want to flood the world with knowledgeable and articulate Christians.” By this, he meant Christians whose minds are shaped by Scripture, whose lives are marked by holiness, and whose witness is anchored in truth. This tidal wave of clear, courageous faith requires serious education in the Word of God.
Thank you for your generous support of this movement to strengthen discipleship in the historic Christian faith. Your prayerfully considered donation this month can help Ligonier advance four vital initiatives throughout 2026. I’ll explain those below.
Making disciples of Jesus Christ is the responsibility of the whole church (Eph. 4:15–16). This calling requires every Christian to know the faith deeply and to express it clearly to others. Yet around the world, faithful Christian teaching is lacking:
- Many pastors cannot afford trusted discipleship resources to help them study God’s Word and to feed their congregations with life-giving truth.
- The next generation is inundated with lies about their identity and purpose, often leaving young believers feeling under attack and alone.
- Christians in many countries lack access to study materials in their language to help them understand and apply the whole counsel of God.
With your generous support, we can provide trusted theological instruction for people of every age, at every stage of the Christian life, and in every nation.
Below are Ligonier’s 2026 outreach plans. I’m updating you on these four initiatives so you can know how to pray and where to give as we seek together to strengthen the global church throughout this year and beyond.
INITIATIVE #1: Strengthen the whole Christian life through an unparalleled arsenal of Bible teaching, expanded discipleship resources, and additional in-person training. Your support can help to:
- Develop in-depth Bible studies for all 66 books of sacred Scripture, providing tools for Christians of all ages to be mastered by God’s Word.
- Release more resources for families and children, including the Spanish and Chinese translations of the Growing in God’s Word Bible curriculum for children.
- Produce new focused content and teaching events for teenagers, college students, and young professionals, applying timeless truth to the formative stages of life.
- Extend online courses through Reformation Bible College to provide a rigorous theological education for global students and prison inmates.
INITIATIVE #2: Expand media and digital platforms to give Christians constant access to God’s truth in a noisy, confusing world. Just as R.C. and the early Ligonier staff pioneered the use of emerging technology, we now use digital channels to spread truth and counter the tsunami of lies online. To support strategic outreach improvements, you can help:
- Increase the impact of Renewing Your Mind by making it a full-video daily podcast and holding live online events from the newly built Renewing Your Mind studio.
- Release more short-form video content to enhance Christian discipleship and provide clear, trusted answers to eternal questions on platforms increasingly shaped by distraction, distortion, and falsehood.
- Develop upgrades for RefNet (our free 24/7 radio app) with more teaching to serve the whole family and set a soaring standard for Christian internet radio programming.
- Revolutionize the free Ligonier app to deepen the study of God’s Word through increased personalization, more teaching in more languages, and an intelligent search assistant that delves into our extensive library.
INITIATIVE #3: Equip 500,000 global pastors with the Reformation Study Bible. The Study Bibles for the World campaign has already blessed more than 150,000 pastors who lack formal theological training and have little access to study materials. Every $25 given to this initiative helps place a Reformation Study Bible into the hands of one pastor, furthering Ligonier’s plans in 2026 to:
- Gift 4,000 study Bibles to the Anglican Church of Kenya in the coming months. As this theologically conservative denomination has more than 5 million members, each minister equipped with the Reformation Study Bible can have a wide-reaching influence.
- Furnish 5,000 pastors in Madagascar this summer, serving the largest Presbyterian denomination in this impoverished island nation with study Bibles. We’re eager to help these church leaders further after meeting many of them last year.
- Fuel additional major study Bible distributions around the world throughout 2026, supporting the church where the need is greatest and faithful teaching is least available.
INITIATIVE #4: Unleash a deep theological library for 80% of the world. As Ligonier entered 2026, you helped us cross the starting line to release weekly Bible teaching in the world’s top 20 languages. Now, decades of translation and production lie ahead, with a potential reach of 6.5 billion souls and rising. Your support today can:
- Deepen our library in these 20 most-spoken languages with translated teaching from Dr. Sproul, the Ligonier Teaching Fellows, and other gifted teachers from the global church.
- Form partnerships with native-language publishers to produce additional discipleship materials in the 60+ languages in which Ligonier is already active.
- Establish long-term launchpads for ministry with dedicated Ligonier staff members providing support to the church in Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom.
- Host more international conferences to bring Christians from every nation to the biblical riches of Reformed theology.
Our great God is worthy of great endeavors. This is His work, empowered by His grace and accomplished for His glory alone. Please pray with us for His continued provision.
R.C. outlined a vision for comprehensive discipleship outreach because the need for biblical truth is universal. Everyone needs to know who God is, and every Christian must be deeply anchored in the gospel to bear faithful witness to His glorious grace.
Ligonier presses on to serve the global church because the Lord is blessing our Great Commission outreach. In His astonishing mercy, the Lord has multiplied the reach of Ligonier fivefold in the years since R.C. went to be with Him, using ordinary means—faithful teaching, careful stewardship, and gospel partnership—to serve the global church. As long as God keeps us faithful and opens more doors for ministry, we will trust and follow Him through.
Your prayerful and generous support can help accelerate this work as the Lord provides. Our team is committed to stewarding your generosity to form knowledgeable and articulate Christians worldwide.
The nations await. Thank you for your prayers and thoughtful generosity in service to the Great Commission.
