Distant Shores Media | Equipping the global church with open discipleship resources.

Equipping the global church
Using modern technology to help make disciples of every people group.
Open discipleship resources
Helping create, translate, and distribute open-licensed discipleship resources, like Open Bible Stories.
The global church
Working together with the entire global church via the Door43 translation platform.
Why?
Because everyone should have adequate discipleship resources in their own language, for free.
"The Christian Commons"
A new book explaining how the spiritual famine of the global church can be ended by the open collaboration of the global church to create open (rather than "all rights reserved") discipleship resources in every language.

We think everyone should have adequate discipleship resources, in their own language, for free.

Who we are

"The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice." —Psalm 97:1 NIV

We are a world missions organization using 21st century technology to help equip the global church with open discipleship resources.

What we do

"Make disciples of every people group..." —Matthew 28:19

We equip the global church to be disciples of Jesus Christ by helping create, translate, and distribute open-licensed discipleship resources.

How we do it

"Pray that God may open to us a Door for the Word..." —Colossians 4:3

We work with the global church, using an open-access platform to create, translate, and distribute open discipleship resources in any language.

Why we do it

Why do we do what we do? Because we believe everyone should have adequate discipleship resources in their own language, for free.

Is it possible to end the spiritual famine of the global church?

We think so! Hundreds of millions of believers all over the world are in immense need of discipleship resources and theological training, but God has given His Church new opportunities and new tools to meet this need. There is, however, a massive obstacle preventing us from taking full advantage of these new opportunities. Find out about the need, the opportunities to meet that need, the obstacle that hinders, and a solution to the problem in this brand new book about world missions in the 21st century: The Christian Commons.