These are the projects we are currently working on:
Door43 (http://door43.org) is:
Door43 is a project to create discipleship tools that are not just free of charge but are released under a Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org), giving anyone, anywhere the freedom to translate, adapt, edit, improve, re-purpose and redistribute the tools for any ministry need, without any legal concern or copyright infringement.
Door43 is an open-membership network of followers of Jesus Christ all over the world who believe in the vision of creating free and open discipleship tools for use by anyone, anywhere, in any language. We are working together as a massively distributed, international team of believers to create them.
Door43 is an on-line workbench that uses a wiki engine as a platform for drafting, discussing, editing, refining and distributing open discipleship tools.
The Open Bible Translation – The Bible in every language, free to translate, use and redistribute anywhere, in any format, for any ministry purpose.
The Open Bible Stories Project – The stories of the Bible in audio format for listening to, learning and freely sharing with others.
The Open Bible School – A modular Bible training course intended to be translated, adapted and freely distributed to anyone in any language, in both audio and text formats.
The Open Bible Commentary – A free and open verse-by-verse commentary of the entire Bible, intended for translation and adaptation into any language and culture.
The Open Bible Handbook – A free and open handbook of key Bible terms, topics and maps to help anyone in any language better understand the Word of God.
The Open Christian Library – A growing collection of free and open Christian literature, studies, essays and other resources, intended for translation and use in any language and culture.
The Open Worship Project – Free and open worship songs of the global church, pre-cleared for any ministry use in any language and culture.
MicroMinistry.org is a user-contributed list of ministry tasks to be "crowd-sourced" to the worldwide body of believers. By sharing ministry tasks with believers everywhere, what would take one person a lot of time can be accomplished quickly by a distributed team over the Internet.
We are collecting Christian music in every language from everywhere in the world, organizing it and archiving it for safe-keeping.
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