The SBS story

The first year (1809) was busy! At a time of industrial revolution in Britain, people in city slums needed God's Word as did the rural poor (and Gaelic was spoken more widely in those days). Bibles were given to convicts leaving Leith for Australia, and in relevant languages to prisoners from the war across Europe against Napoleon.

Funds were sent to help William Carey's pioneer efforts to translate and publish Scriptures in many Indian tongues, and to support production of the Bible in Icelandic.  In the decades that followed we supported pioneer translation and distribution across Africa, in the Far East and even in remote corners of the Pacific.

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