English
Welcome to Letra Viva’s web site! If you would like to receive our occasional news bulletin in English, please contact the address below.
Letra Viva (Living Letter, in Spanish) is a network of evangelical book publishers working within the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America, seeking to produce contextualised and biblical publications. The network was formed in 1996 by a group of publishers which shared the same vision of improving the distribution, quality and impact of Christian books in Latin America.
Letra Viva is a network – in other words members participate voluntarily, in order to do together those things that would be impossible to achieve alone. As a network Letra Viva maintains a flexible structure, and is led by a co-ordinating committee chosen at biannual assemblies.
The objectives of Letra Viva are:
1. Distribution: to support the distribution of its members’ books, through joint action by members, and contacts with distributors and fulfillment centres.
2. Training: to provide training for the teams of member publishers through sharing of experience, webinars, participation in international publisher events and the production of resource material.
3. Information: to share information that is important for the growth of its members, including opportunities with online distributers (like Amazon) and Print-on-Demand services. Members receive a weekly newsletter and links through WhatsApp.
4. Representation: to represent members in conferences and other events, as well as promoting the books of its member groups through the web site www.letraviva.com
5. Pastoral: to encourage the pastoral support and prayer of the personnel of member groups, by sharing news and providing opportunities for mutual support.
The need for RELEVANT and BIBLICAL literature in the continent is great. To help the church strengthen and deepen, we need books by Latin Americans for Latin Americans. We need books that speak the language of the heart, and which will be distributed in every part of the continent. We also need to enable ministry leaders, pastors and experienced lay persons to write books that will meet a need within the continent. and in doing so, develop their own gifts and thinking.
For all this to happen, Christian publishers working within Latin America are crucial. They know their countries well— they target books for their own people, they develop local authors, they penetrate the ‘market’ that they know from the inside.
Yet publishing in Latin America is tough. Publishers face many challenges due to the changing political and economic situations of each republic. Developing new authors can take time. Also many publishers have staffing needs, men and women with a passion for Christian books and a commitment to work on all the details involved in publishing… while receiving only a modest salary!
If you would like to know more about Letra Viva or would like to support financially, please contact the present Co-ordinator of Letra Viva:
Ian Darke, Coordinator of Letra Viva
Apartado 2633-2050
11501 San Pedro de Montes de Oca
COSTA RICA
E-mail: ian@letraviva.com
