The Editorial Portavoz staff displaying their multiple awards at the SEPA banquet. From left to right: Pedro Slachta, Martha Zamora, Marco Zarate, Tito Mantilla, Jackie Saldana, and Peter Cerra

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Editorial Portavoz, founded in Barcelona, Spain, in 1970 by Harold Kregel, received the award for Publisher of the Year granted by the Spanish Evangelical Publishers Association (SEPA) and voted for by distributors and booksellers from Spain and Latin America.

The SEPA Awards took place in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, August 9, during Expolit 2017, a convention that brings together the Spanish Christian publishing and music industries.
Editorial Portavoz received awards in other categories as well.

Biblia de la mujer conforme al corazón de Dios, an original project in Spanish edited by Elizabeth George, won two awards: one for best cover and interior design of a Bible and another for best ad.

These two awards reflect the dynamic teamwork of Editorial Portavoz, which combines years of editorial experience with outstanding strategies and knowledge of sales and marketing.

And for the second year in a row, EditorialPortavoz.com was chosen as the best website due to its efficiency in improving customer relationships, among other criteria.

Furthermore, La gratitud. El perdón by Nancy Leigh DeMoss won the award for best-selling mass market book.

Tito Mantilla, executive director of Editorial Portavoz, said he was very proud of his team for their superb marketing efforts and customer service, outstanding sales team, and excellent quality of the books and Bibles they produce. “I am honored and very grateful for the recognition of Editorial Portavoz by the industry,” concluded Mantilla.

The mission of Editorial Portavoz is to provide quality products—with integrity and excellence—from a solid biblical perspective that encourage people in their spiritual life and Christian service.

The Spanish Evangelical Publishers Association was founded in 1960 to promote dialogue among publishers and organize activities and events that facilitate the distribution of Christian resources.

Store will open with Tyndale’s inaugural warehouse sale in September 2017

Carol Stream, Ill. (August 23, 2017) – Tyndale House Publishers, the largest independent Christian publisher in the United States, has called the Chicago western suburbs home for more than fifty years. Now, for the very first time, Tyndale is opening its doors to the public with the grand opening of an on-site bookstore at its corporate headquarters in Carol Stream, as well as its inaugural warehouse sale, which will take place September 28-30, 2017.

“In recent months, our employees have participated in innovation discussions, and we are enthusiastically pursuing several initiatives,” said Doug Walton, Vice President of HR and Administrative Services. “The idea for an annual warehouse sale came out of these conversations. We also have a lobby that can serve as a place to profile our new products and bestsellers—and we thought a Tyndale bookstore would be a great way to serve our community and further our mission. It will feature more than 400 Tyndale books and Bibles, as well as a card section. We hope it becomes a destination for individuals and churches to see our new products, as well as a place that will minister to their spiritual needs.”

Tyndale’s bookstore will be located in the lobby of its corporate office at 351 Executive Drive in Carol Stream. The store will feature new releases and bestsellers, while all books will be discounted 20 percent. Store hours will be Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

From September 28-30, 2017, Tyndale’s inaugural warehouse sale will include discounts of up to 70 percent and will include overstock and scratch-and-dent titles, as well as outreach and giveaway Bibles. 

The warehouse sale dates are as follows:

Thursday, September 28 and Friday, September 29, 2017
Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 30, 2017
Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. Tyndale was founded to publish Living Letters, which later comprised part of The Living Bible, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible that became a global publishing phenomenon. Tyndale now publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people.

(Colorado Springs, CO) – Persecution throughout the world is escalating, millions of Christians live with gross insecurity, and the concept of religious freedom as a universal human right is being challenged. The Christian persecution crisis is among the key topics at the Crisis Publishing Initiative Oct. 15 – 18, 2017, in Sopron, Hungary.

In a plenary session, a workshop, and two case studies the crisis will be examined from all sides by a religious liberties analyst and Christian publishers experiencing persecution.

The Crisis Publishing Initiative is for Christians in publishing on the front lines, as they seek to find the truth in chaotic situations and publish the information their readers need in order to respond to crises as those called to be light and salt in a fractured world.

Elizabeth Kendal, an international religious liberty analyst and advocate, will present a plenary session discussing the challenges of reporting on religious persecution with the discernment, wisdom, understanding, and courage required of writers and publishers seeking to be a voice for the suffering Church.

Kendal is an adjunct research fellow in the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at the Melbourne School of Theology, and the director of advocacy at Canberra-based Christian Faith and Freedom.

Since 1999, Kendal has published a weekly Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin to help facilitate strategic intercessory prayer. She is the author of two books: Turn Back the Battle: Isaiah Speaks to Christians Today, which offers a Biblical response to persecution and existential threat; and, After Saturday Comes Sunday: Understanding the Christian Crisis in the Middle East.

Kendal will also present a workshop on “Global Trends in Religious Liberty.” She will discuss how global trends have converged to create the “perfect storm” that forms the context for today’s escalating persecution.

In addition, case studies will be given by two publishers whose readers face persecution.
Gökhan Talas, co-founder and publisher of Miras Publishing Ministries in Turkey will present on publishing a Christian magazine in a Muslim-majority country.

Talas is a professional graphic designer, writer and publisher. He and his wife, Ozge Talas, founded Miras Publishing Ministries in 2011, and began publishing Miras Magazine, the only Turkish Christian magazine, in 2012.

Previously, he worked at Radio Shema, Ankara’s only Christian radio station, where he prepared programs with the intent to spread the gospel. Later he moved to Malatya where five Muslim terrorists entered his church’s office and killed three of his friends, including the pastor.

“Publishing in the midst of communal fanaticism, Hindu nationalism, and Christian persecution,” will be presented by Joseph Benjamin, editor and publisher of Gujarati Christians magazine in India.

Benjamin publishes both the website and magazine versions of Gujarati Christians, and founded multiple adult literacy and vocational training centers for poor, rural women.

Benjamin launched the website in 2000 in response to persecution, famine, and floods in the area. Although created for Christians, many non-Christians also use the site. It provides evangelism content in the form of articles, prayers, and tracts. The high demand for additional content from the website led Benjamin and his wife to create a corresponding magazine Gujarati Christians in 2007.

Other topics to be discussed include how to cover the refugee and migrant crises, natural disasters, and war zones, as well as tools for reporters and editors, tips on how to stay safe, photograph crises, and deal with secondary trauma.

New one-day workshops on writing for publications and photography are now available for Crisis Publishing Initiative participants on Oct. 19, the day after the conference.

Carol Steam, Ill. (August 24, 2017) — Tyndale House Publishers is pleased to announce that Love, Lexi: Letters to God, by Sherry Kyle recently received the Cascade Award for Young Adult/Middle Grade Fiction Book at the Oregon Christian Writers Conference.  According to the Oregon Christian Writers’ website, the purpose of the Cascade Writing Contest is to “reward excellent writing and to encourage both seasoned and emerging writers.”

Titles submitted for consideration are judged in ten categories, including story elements such as opening hooks and believable and relatable characters, fresh and original writing that demonstrates the author’s voice, and well-developed and differentiated characters. Importantly, books are also judged upon the inclusion of a spiritual thread that is natural to the story and appropriate for the Christian market.

Kyle’s Love, Lexi follows seventh grader Alexis Dawn Cooper (Lexi) as she navigates both middle school and being a middle child. But, given the format of this book, it is no ordinary middle-school novel. Love, Lexi is a unique combination of a fictional story combined with a devotional and journal, allowing readers to watch Lexi learn to seek God first, above all else, while writing their own letters to God. Love, Lexi draws young people into Lexi’s life as they contemplate their own place in God’s eyes.

Linda Howard, associate publisher of children and youth products at Tyndale House Publishers, says, “Congratulations to Sherry! Love, Lexi is the perfect combination of fiction, devotions, and journaling for tween girls, and we are honored to have partnered with her to publish it.” To learn more about any of Tyndale’s titles, visit www.tyndale.com.

Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers as well as The Living Bible and the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world.

Tyndale.com  | Oregonchristianwriters.org

August 25, 2017 — With the publication of Can You See Anything Now? by Katherine James (October 10, 2017 / ISBN 978-1612619316 / Trade Paperback) Paraclete Press returns to publishing novels and launches a new series, Paraclete Fiction. “Our intention is to reach the unchurched, de-churched, and ‘nones,’” explains Publisher Jon M. Sweeney, “who would probably never look for something new to read in the ‘Christian Fiction’ section.”

For a faith-based press with traditional leanings, the Paraclete Fiction line represents not just a new direction, but a risk. “Can You See Anything Now? is a novel about real people living real lives,” Sweeney explains, by which he means that expletives and themes of addiction and self-injury in the book may be unsettling to some, while appealing to others.

Can You See Anything Now? explores grace in the midst of tragedy, and in the lives of unforgettable, utterly ruined characters. The novel follows a year in the small town of Trinity, and the lives of the suicidal painter, Margie, who has been teaching her evangelical neighbor, Etta, how to paint nudes; her husband, the town therapist who suspects his work helps no one; and their college-aged daughter, Noel, whose roommate, Pixie, joins them at home for a winter holiday, only to fall into Trinity’s freezing river.

Themes of small-town life and the juxtaposition of tragedy and redemption should resonate with readers of Marilynne Robinson, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout. Early endorsers include Leslie Leyland Fields, Suzanne Wolfe, and Scott Cairns.

About the Author:  Katherine James has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University in New York City, where she received the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship. She has been on staff with CRU, a ministry to college students, for over twenty-five years. She is a member of Redbud Writers Guild, and is senior editor for CruPress. Her memoir, Notes on Orion, about the opioid epidemic in the suburbs of Philadelphia and the ways that it affected her family, will be published by Paraclete in the second half of 2018.

“Katherine James just might be a genius. If you’re a redemption chaser, you’ll love this book. If you hate redemption stories, you’re going to love this book.” —Leslie Leyland Fields

For more information, contact Sr. Antonia Cleverly, srantonia@paracletepress.com, (508) 255-4685 x 329

Carol Steam, Ill. (August 24, 2017)— Jarrid Wilson, Nashville pastor and NavPress author of Love Is Oxygen: How God Can Give You Life and Change Your World, is speaking out on mental illness—a subject that has long been buried by Christians and overlooked in the church. Wilson appeared on the TLC hit reality TV show Outdaughtered on Tuesday, August 22, to provide encouragement and perspective as a pastor who battles depression and anxiety and helps others with similar struggles.

In addition to being an author, Wilson and his wife, Juli, founded Anthem of Hope, a nonprofit that wants to better equip churches to help those with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and self-harm. Jarrid and Juli live in Nashville, Tennessee, with their two boys.

Speaking out in support of Jarrid Wilson and this important title, NavPress publisher Don Pape shares, “Mental illness is rampant and pervasive in the church today. How we address it and travel with people through it is what Jarrid Wilson helps all of us with. God’s love is central to this journey, and in his book Jarrid gently holds the reader by the hand, inviting them to breathe in deeply this divine love.” For more information about Love Is Oxygen or any other NavPress title, visit NavPress.com.

Love Is Oxygen: How God Can Give You Life and Change Your World
produced by NavPress
ISBN: 978-1-63146-760-8| Softcover: $15.99 | September 19, 2017

NavPress acts as the publishing arm of the Navigators, whose mission is “To know Christ and to make Him known.” NavPress serves to advance the calling of the Navigators by publishing life-changing products that are biblically rooted, culturally relevant, and highly practical. Challenging people to thrive in their journey with Jesus Christ, NavPress produces resources that will edify, instruct, and inspire disciples to grow in their faith and make disciples of others.

Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. Tyndale was founded to publish Living Letters, which later comprised part of The Living Bible, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible that became a global publishing phenomenon. Tyndale now publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people.

August 25, 2017 — WHEATON, Ill.—Crossway is pleased to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of You Are Special, written by best-selling author Max Lucado. Over the course of two decades, the book and its editions have sold over two million copies.

“You Are Special is a special book for us here at Crossway,” says Crossway’s Vice President of Book Publishing, Dave DeWit. “We are grateful for its ministry to children, parents, grandparents, and educators these past twenty years. Combining Max Lucado’s masterful storytelling and the delightful illustrations of Sergio Martinez, it delivers the message that God cherishes each of us.”

You Are Special tells the timeless story of Punchinello, the wooden Wemmick who believes that he isn’t good enough because of what others say about him. But Eli the woodcarver helps Punchinello understand he is precious to God just the way he is. Through spending daily time with God, Punchinello begins to see himself through God’s eyes. Lucado reminds children and parents alike that God loves his people even though they make mistakes and have flaws.

You Are Special is the first book in Lucado’s Wemmicks series, which includes most notably, You Are Mine, If Only I Had a Green Nose, and Punchinello and the Most Marvelous Gift.

Max Lucado is the best-selling author of more than fifty books that have been translated into more than fifty-four languages. He has been named one of the most influential leaders in social media by the New York Times and “America’s Pastor” by Christianity Today. In addition to his writing ministry, he is the senior pastor at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. The book was illustrated by Sergio Martinez, who has illustrated internationally renowned gift editions of several literary classics, including Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and A Christmas Carol.

Founded in 1938, Crossway is a not-for-profit global Christian publishing ministry that publishes gospel-centered, Bible-centered content, to honor our Savior and serve his Church. Crossway seeks to help people understand the all-encompassing implications of the gospel and the truth of God’s Word—for all of life, for all eternity, and for the glory of God alone. Crossway is the global publisher of the ESV® (English Standard Version®) Bible, more than 1,000 Christian books, and an extensive list of gospel literature. For additional information visit crossway.org.

Contact: Lauren Harvey
lharvey@crossway.org  (630) 682-4300, ext. 6031   crossway.org