NOVEMBER: Christmas Gifts, Portugese Comics, Faith Channel and more

NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER

This month:

  • Christmas Shopping

  • Portuguese Bible Comics

  • Great Commission Card Game Update

  • The Coloring Book and Acts needs your review

  • Patreon Hangout

  • + more

Christmas Shopping!

The Word for Word Bible Comics make a great Christmas gift. And this year we’ve even got two titles all about Christmas!

Head to our Christmas Shop to see cards, t-shirts and hoodies.

Don’t forget you can save 25% on orders over £50 with discount code FIFTYQUIDPLUS

The Christmas Coloring Factbook
The Christmas Coloring Factbook
from £3.99

The Christmas Coloring Factbook

This coloring book features illustrations from the nativity of Jesus alongside historical and biblical facts about Christmas.

£3.99 for one or Just £15.99 for 5




The Christmas Nativity : Word for Word Bible Comic: NIV Translation
The Christmas Nativity : Word for Word Bible Comic: NIV Translation
from £8.99

The Christmas Nativity : Word for Word Bible Comic: NIV Translation

The Christmas Nativity has been told and retold probably more than any other story in existence, but many are unbiblical. Here we are presenting the story of Jesus' birth and childhood from the gospels of Luke (1:1-2:52 and 3:23-38), Matthew (1:1-2:23) and John (1:1-14) as one intertwined chronological narrative.

£8.99 FOR ONE, or Just £29.99 for 5






Verso a Verso A Bíblia em Quadrinhos

In 2021 we licenced the rights for BV Books in Brazil to create the Word for Word Bible Comic in Portuguese. I just discovered that they recently launched and are now available and called: Verso a Verso A Bíblia em Quadrinhos

https://www.bibliaversoaverso.com.br/

Great Commission Game: Update

We’ve sent out all the books to backers who have filled in their surveys now, and we’ve been working hard on the game to get it ready for playtesting.

About two weeks ago we went through every card ensuring the abilities were balanced and reflected what they represented well. As a result, we are even more confident that the game will be really fun and get you thinking about real church life.

As an example, the Trouble card “Gossip” used to “Return the member with the lowest Recover Cost to the World”. Now it increases the amount of health damage you take from facedown/hidden Troubles within the church. This makes it more thematic but also interesting as you can get rid of it like normal or you can afford to bear it for a while as long as you don’t have any hidden trouble (sin, conflict etc) in your church, giving you options and strategies on how and when to deal with the issue.

We are printing out a test draft of the cards as we speak and hope to have the full game available for backers to access on Tabletop Simulator in the next week or two. We playtested all the new cards last night and it’s working really nicely. Keep an eye out on your KS update and the Discord channel which will spring to life at that time.

FaithChannel Advert

There’s a relatively new website called FaithChannel, which is like a Christian Netflix that’s growing in popularity. I recently had a meeting with the owners and plan to run adverts on there in the next couple of months to see if we can reach more people with news about the Word for Word Bible Comic.

Acts and The Christmas Coloring Factbook need your Review

The Christmas Coloring Factbook launched in the shops yesterday but has no reviews or even star ratings online yet. If you liked this book and the Book of Acts, please head to Amazon and Goodreads and add your star rating.

https://www.amazon.com/Acts-Apostles-Bible-Comic-Translation/dp/1914299140
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205656466-acts-of-the-apostles

https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Coloring-Factbook-Amadeus-Pillario/dp/1914299159
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212187699-christmas-coloring-factbook

Patreon Hangout

Soon we will be having a video call with our patrons. It’s a chance to hang out, ask questions and discuss what books are coming on the horizon. If you’d like to be there and you’re not a patron, start supporting today and you can be at our Patron exclusive online meetups.

Other offers

Follow our Social media outlets for updates on offers and unique sale items as we get close to Christmas

Prayer Requests

Gospels into Prisons: We are partnering again with the OPTIM charity to get many Bible Comics and gospels into UK prisons. This is being augmented by our Kickstarter backers too. Please pray this goes smoothly and God’s Word is life-changing for these inmates!

FaithChannel Advert: Please pray this venture is successful and that the video I create for the ad works well with the audience.

Portuguese Versions: Please pray the Portuguese title takes off in a big way. The Action Bible has been having a resurgence in popularity recently and it would be great to get on that wave!

Other Languages: We’ve had slow progress selling the rights to other languages so far, please pray with me that this Portuguese version will be successful and be the first domino in releasing many other languages around the world!

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OCTOBER NEWSLETTER: Award Nomination, Late Pledges and Christmas Cards

This month:

  • Song of Songs Nominated for Bible of the Year

  • Kickstarter Results and Late Pledges

  • Interview with Christian Board Games Podcast

  • The Book of Acts needs your review

  • Christmas Cards, T-shirt and Colouring Books

  • + more

Nominated for Bible of the Year

This year at the Christian Resources Together event, Song of Songs: Word for Word Bible Comic was nominated as Bible of the Year. In the end, we didn’t win but let’s see what happens next year with The Book of Acts!

I was encouraged to hear that there were 22 entrants for this award, so the top 3 is pretty good. Here are a few comments submitted by the judges:

  • these have never been my style but I had not grasped the attention to detail before handling a copy. 

  • the appendix pages are fantastic.

  • very good all round with a good introduction to the book and extra features and background at the end.

  • excellent quality and great thought and expertise put into this idea.

Our most successful Kickstarter! You can still late pledge

On September 15th the Kickstarter officially finished and it reached £35,477 just shy of Acts which ended on £36,097. However, we took advantage of the new “Late Pledge”* feature on Kickstarter and it has now exceeded Acts at £37,170 and rising. Thank you so much to everyone who has backed the project and supported us on this crazy card game.

SURVEYS: We’ve also just sent out the Backer Survey so don’t forget to fill yours in so we can send you your books now and your games later.

*Late Pledge: This is only available on a limited number of items and they do not include the campaign time discounts, but they do allow latecomers to climb aboard while we keep working on the game. Very soon the late pledges will close, however, so if you are one of those who forgot to back the project this is your last chance!

 LATE PLEDGE (ENDS SOON) 

Interview with Christian Board Gamers Podcast from LTN

See our latest interview about the game and us on Christian Board Gamers Podcast

Acts needs your Review ★★★★★

The Book of Acts launched in the shops last month but it’s still got no reviews or even star ratings. If you liked the book, please head to Amazon and Goodreads and add your star rating.

https://www.amazon.com/Acts-Apostles-Bible-Comic-Translation/dp/1914299140
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205656466-acts-of-the-apostles


In our new Christmas Shop, we’ve got the Christmas Nativity graphic novel, the Colouring Factbook, Christmas Cards and even a T-shirt in various colours!

The number of card sets we have is limited and we are shipped from the UK so if you're outside the UK you’ll need to order them soon to get them in time!

(Ps. I adjusted all the t-shirt prices to make them all more affordable at £15-£19)

 GO TO CHRISTMAS SHOP 

Prayer Requests

Gospels into Prisons: We are partnering again with the OPTIM charity to get many Bible Comics and gospels into UK prisons. This is being augmented by our Kickstarter backers too. Please pray this goes smoothly and God’s Word is life-changing for these inmates!

New Opportunities: Over the last few months I’ve been talking to various people about different opportunities to utilise the bible comic to

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SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER: Kickstarter Ending soon and more

This month:

  • Support the Kickstarter before it ends!

  • The Book of Acts launches today, see a new review!

  • Share the Kickstarter FB post to give all backers a bonus

  • Add your reviews to the Book of Acts listing

  • See an Interview with Simon and Paul

  • + more

The Kickstarter is going strong!

What an amazing start we had! Funded in just 11 hours. Faster than any of our previous KSs. While we are past the initial spike, the total is still rising steadily. We’ve pushed through two stretch goals already, the third is on the cusp and that is a great achievement. There’s only a little time but we are very keen to attain those next two stretch goals which will unlock a 4-player upgrade to the game and a rigid box for all game backers!

 GO TO KICKSTARTER PAGE 

Kickstarter Facebook Stretch Goal

We are trying out a new kind of Stretch Goal; it’s a Social Stretch Goal! I’ve created a new post on Facebook ready to be shared. (You can like and comment while you’re there too :P )

  • You can share it multiple times: You can share into different relevant groups you are part of (your church, Christian groups, gaming groups) as well as your feed, all will help toward the goal.

  • Effective: You might think you don’t know many relevant people of if all our backers add just one person we’ll double the numbers.

  • Cooperative: Doing it all together at the same time will make the post “popular” and get promoted more. 

I’m excited to see how well it goes!

Your face on a card?

If you missed the opportunity to have your face featuring on a card in the first day of the campaign I have now added a few more slot. Do you want to really be part of this game!

Interview with the creators

Watch this interview from the Christian Nerd Unite Podcast!

The Book of Acts OUT NOW

The Book of Acts is officially launched today.

Buy your copy here:

https://www.wordforwordbiblecomic.com/shop/actsoftheapostles

If you’d like to acquire a digital version, you can get it here:

https://www.wordforwordbiblecomic.com/shop/actsdigital


Review of Acts of the Apostles

Watch this official review video of the book from RevReads!

Extract: “I can only imagine how helpful this would be for the new Christian who is learning about these places for the first time [...] to see them spread out within this graphic novel is soooo helpful. […] I gotta say it, I give another very very strong recommendation for the Word for Word Bible Comics and this time it’s for the Acts of the Apostles”

Please add your review ★★★★★

Please help us out by adding your review to the Amazon listing, Goodbooks and anywhere else you find reviews. This is so important to get seen and trusted by new readers browsing these platforms (thank you)

https://www.amazon.com/Acts-Apostles-Bible-Comic-Translation/dp/1914299140

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205656466-acts-of-the-apostles


Prayer Requests

Kickstarter: Please hold us in your prayers for the ongoing success of the Kickstarter and for the Kingdom benefit it will bring! It’s a new venture for us but already we’ve seen God’s hand powerfully moving behind the scenes!

Gospels into Prisons: We are partnering again with the OPTIM charity to get many Bible Comics and gospels into UK prisons. This is being augmented by our Kickstarter backers too. Please pray this goes smoothly and God’s Word is life-changing for these inmates!

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AUGUST NEWSLETTER : KICKSTARTER LIVE

(This blog was sent as an email to our subscribers on Aug 16th- Subscribe to stay up to date!)

It’s time for the new Kickstarter! This time for The Great Commission Strategic Card Game

The Great Commission is a cooperative strategy game where you take on the challenge of leading a church in the tumultuous Roman era. Manage a church full of diverse personalities each contributing their own unique abilities and gifts but also bringing their struggles with sin, conflict or even demonic opposition.

The rich historical setting and spiritual themes interwoven with the gameplay lead to not only tactical decisions but sometimes philosophical ones. The aim is to share the gospel and assemble your church before your time runs out! 

See more info and all our fun videos on the KS page…

 GO TO KICKSTARTER PAGE 

5 reasons to back at the start

1) Early Bird and unique rewards go extremely quickly! 
2) Whenever you pledge, payment is not required until after the campaign ends. (Sunday Sept 15th) 
3) The faster a Kickstarter funds the more highly it is ranked for being "popular". This gives "social proof" to the project and can also lead to getting featured on Kickstarter's top projects page!
5) Stops us stressing about whether the project will fund. D:

Please share the KS on your socials

It really really helps! Find our social updates here and hit that like and share button:

  • Facebook Page- https://www.facebook.com/wordforwordbiblecomic

  • Facebook Group- www.facebook.com/groups/wordforwordbiblecomiccommunity

  • Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordforwordbiblecomic

  • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wordforwordbiblecomic

  • X - https://twitter.com/WforWBibleComic

  • Pinterest - https://uk.pinterest.com/wforwbiblecomic

  • YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/c/wordforwordbiblecomic

Fulfilling the Acts Kickstarter

All the digital rewards have been sent out. We have all the books, the coins, the colouring factbooks, the extra, the postage boxes and all envelopes in hand. We’ll be sending them out over the next 2 weeks so they’ll be with you by the end of August, if not before!

This is just the packaging stuff…

Today I set up the kitchen table in the living room to get the Kickstarter editions numbered…

Prayer Request

Kickstarter: Please please hold us in your prayers for the success of the Kickstarter and for the Kingdom benefit it will bring! It’s a new venture for us but already we’ve seen Gods hand powerfully moving behind the scenes!

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JULY NEWSLETTER

JULY NEWSLETTER

Next month we are going to launch a new Kickstarter for something exciting, but it’s not a comic :O

Mystery Kickstarter Next Month!

This Kickstarter is really exciting, it’s something I’ve been working on with a friend for several years on and off, but now we have all the components to really make this thing take off! We plan to launch next month (God willing). He’s a (not-very-helpful) teaser image…

It is relevant to you as a Bible Comic fan, but I can’t tell you more yet because…

Announced first to Patrons!

We’d like to reward our dependable patrons with the inside track regarding what is coming up. As people who are invested in the project long term, we not only want to give our patrons something extra but hear their trusted feedback. (Note: it’s not what we talked about at the last Patreon hangout)

So very soon we will be having a Patreon Hang Out (video call) and there, myself and my friend will announce what the Kickstarter will be and we will be looking for feedback.

If you’d like to be among the first to hear about it and even have an influence on things like names and little elements within the project, as well as Kickstarter rewards and add-ons, you can become a Patron from just $1 a month.

Become a Patron today and join the first step which will be fixing the best date for the video call here: https://www.patreon.com/WordforWordBibleComic

 Patreon Page 

Find out more on the socials…

During the next month, we will be dropping hints and eventually letting you know what’s coming. So if you don’t already follow us, you can do so here:

And you can also get a direct notification from Kickstarter by following here:

Fulfilling the Acts Kickstarter

All the digital rewards have been sent out. We have all the books, the coins, the colouring factbooks, the extra, the postage boxes and all envelopes in hand. We’ll be sending them out over the next 2 weeks so they’ll be with you by the end of August, if not before!

This is just the packaging stuff…

Today I set up the kitchen table in the living room to get the Kickstarter editions numbered…

Prayer Request

Secret Kickstarter: Please pray for our secret Kickstarter project to be a success. There’s a lot of work to get done before the launch, please pray it all goes smoothly.

The Next Book(s): Which book(s) we do next is still up in the air. Please pray the Lord will reveal the best path to navigate our way through illustrating the Bible over the next few years.

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JUNE NEWSLETTER: 10 Year Anniversary

10 Year Anniversary

Can you believe it!?! The Word for Word Bible Comic is officially 10 years old today. On this day in history, we registered the company. At that point, the first Kickstarter had recently been completed and I'd already been working on the project part-time for about 6 years in sketchbooks and in prayer, but that's when it was official. In the time since we've covered ten books of the Bible and if you count all the translations in English and Spanish, and colouring books we've published 21 books :o

I want to take this opportunity to thank the team who've done finance, admin, packaging, colouring, print files, kindle files, marketing and more. I'd also really love to thank everyone who has backed a Kickstarter, bought a book or supported us regularly through our Patreon! Without your financial support, this wouldn't have made it off the ground!

THANK YOU!

Anniversary gift coming soon

We are just about to release Mark’s Gospel: NIV on Kindle. I had hoped to give you a free copy right now to celebrate the 10 year anniversary, but it’s still in review…thanks Amazon. So, keep an eye on our socials for an announcement with the link in the next few days!

FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wordforwordbiblecomiccommunity
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WforWBibleComic
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wordforwordbiblecomic
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@WordforWordBibleComic
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01LHK7LLW

Vote for the book you’d like best

Act’s is finished and off to the printer, and now I’m working on a short book (which I haven’t officially announced) but after that, I’ll be able to do a longer one. I'd like to see what book you are most keen to read as a Bible Comic from this selection. (You can select more than one but selecting them all won't help). Head to the Patreon poll to cast your vote.

Kickstarter: Digital Acts coming soon

All Kickstarter backers who have rewards will receive a copy of the new Acts of the Apostles graphic novel as a downloadable PDF very soon. It will come to you as a Kickstarter update with a link so watch out for that email!

PS: The Kickstarter surveys went out a week or two ago, if you haven’t filled in your address you won’t be able to get your rewards.

Tiktok

I’ve had a Tiktok for a while but I’m keen to build it up over the next month or two. I’ll be posting little videos there so if you use TikTok come and follow me there! www.tiktok.com/@wordforwordbiblecomic

Event: The Gathering (CVM)

In 10 days time I’ll be in a field near Swindow for the men’s conference. I do fewer and fewer events these days but this is my favourite. I know lots of you on this newsletter will be there, so be sure to come over and bring your mates! I’ll have special cover versions and other unique items so don’t miss us.

Prayer Request

Acts Production: We’ve just sent off the Book of Acts, the Colouring book and the map to the printer. Please pray it’s all fine and in order with no errors

Foreign Languages: We are still working to get the comic converted into more languages, please pray that partners would take the plunge and start producing the project in their countries.







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