Become a Gospel Patron
The task is urgent.  The opportunity is now. Through God's Word, you can help transform individuals, communities and nations. You can invest in Bible translation at any level:

o  Fund the launch of a new translation for people with no Scripture.

o  Fund the translation of a New Testament or Old Testament

​o  Envision funding an entire Bible translation, beginning to end.
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California-based author and speaker John Rinehart says, “My life has been a journey of learning to live for the one who died for me.” He was saved at age 7 and eventually gained experience in both business and ministry, including a Master of Divinity degree. Intrigued by a remarkable story of patronage, in 2013 he compiled stories from Christian history to publish Gospel Patrons: People Whose Generosity Changed The World.

Here’s how strategic partnerships impact eternity

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My wife and I stepped into an elevator filled with people dressed in blue and black suits, pushed the circular button for floor 31, and waited. When the doors opened we approached the receptionist and stated our names. A few minutes later a silver-haired businessman named Simon emerged through the double doors. “John and Renée, lovely to meet you,” he said. “Shall we head downstairs for a cup of coffee?” Our meeting with Simon had been arranged by a mutual friend who thought I might be interested to learn about something called Gospel Patronage. I had no idea what that term meant, so as we chatted, I asked him directly, “Simon, I was told I should ask you about Gospel Patronage. What is it?” “My own story,” Simon said, “began several years ago as I was about to launch a new company. I realized that if the business succeeded then I stood to make a lot of 
money. I also knew I needed a strategy in place to be able to prosper financially without failing spiritually. So I began to look for examples in history and soon found that when God raised up preachers and missionaries to lead the great movements of the gospel, He also raised up patrons to come alongside those leaders as partners in the work. “For example,” Simon continued, “in the 1500s an Englishman named William Tyndale wanted to translate the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into English. For 1,000 years the Bible had been locked in Latin, but most Englishmen couldn’t read Latin and therefore did not know the Bible. Tyndale wanted to change that. He wanted his countrymen to meet the God of the Bible, a God they had heard about but never known. The problem was Bible translation was illegal; you could be killed for it. But God intervened through a godly businessman named Humphrey Monmouth. ​Monmouth protected Tyndale, he provided for him, and he even used his merchant ships to smuggle the first English New Testaments throughout England. Very few people have ever heard of Monmouth, but his partnership with Tyndale changed the world.” I was spellbound and couldn’t wait to learn more about these backstage VIPs, who Simon called “Gospel Patrons.” Humphrey Monmouth called Tyndale off the bench and put him in the game. What drove people like that? What made them so different from the average church-goers of their day and ours? They weren’t content to be spectators; instead, they engaged. Simon’s stories painted a picture I had never seen, and I was eager to share it with others.

“This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.”
— COLOSSIANS 1:6 (NLT)