Your contribution to BVI (mail or on-line) allows you to play a crucial role in partnering with teachers, missionaries and national Christians who share the Gospel around the world. And your gifts allow BVI to maintain minimal production costs making it possible for others to purchase BVI materials at fair prices and teach boys and girls about Christ.

Bible Visuals International is a registered, non-profit organization operating under IRS code 501 (c)(3). Tax-deductible receipts are issued to donors. For more information, please contact us at (717) 859-1131, info@biblevisuals.org or click here to visit our Contributions page.
 

Call the BVI office, send an e-mail, or write a letter explaining the illustrations/text in which book you desire to duplicate. Explain the reason for duplication. Your request will be considered and, if granted, a "Permission to Photocopy" form will be issued to you.

We recognize that sometimes a PowerPoint presentation would meet the needs of groups that are too large to view our hand-held flashcard books. As titles are colorized and printed, a corresponding CD version with supplemental materials is put on the production schedule. For those titles that have not been colorized, an intermediate digital CD version will be made available for purchase upon request. Please contact the BVI office regarding availability as some items are already available in the intermediate format but other will need to be prepared. Be sure to allow at least two weeks for preparation of titles into the intermediate digital format.
 

Besides purchasing your own Clip Art CD, we hope to make clip art available through our online e-store for downloading. As the library of our Christian Education Clip Art continues to expand, more new art will become available to you. Look for vector-based images (more suitable for large format printing) and expanded religious (missions orientated) categories in the future.
 

The following titles can also be used with pre-school children (ages 4 and 5):

• Visualized Bible Volumes Introductory through 13 NT (Life of Christ)
• Boy Afraid
• Ladi/White-White
• Laraba/Audu
• No Tree for Christmas/Peggy's Christmas Stocking
• Penny and Turea
• The Pink Pig
• The Walking Umbrella
• Whiter Than Snow
   

• Teachers of teens and adults have used The Visualized Bible Series from the Epistles through Revelation and volumes on the Major and Minor Prophets.
• Those ministering in nursing homes have used our visualized hymns and songs effectively.
• Deaf ministries find the flashcard books easy to display while they sign the story or lesson.
• Teachers of classes for mentally challenged have found the Visualized Bible Series, stories and hymns easy to use.
• Parents who home school their children have used our Visualized Bible Series for their Bible curriculum and missionary stories for special unit studies on world religions or countries.
• Christian school teachers find our stories and songs helpful in chapel programs.
   

You only need to purchase our publications once. This makes our curriculum very cost effective for you as you will save hundreds of dollars normally spent on dated curriculum. After a teacher has completed the study of a particular volume, the publication may be filed and reused in a teaching cycle (i.e., repeated every 4 years). See below for the Visualized Bible teaching cycle. You do not need to continue ordering quarterly or annually. Our publications are subsequently designed so that you can develop your own curriculum or use them to supplement your present curriculum.

• Consult the assigned Bible reading for the Bible lesson and meditatively read the Scripture. Take notes and learn the facts from the Bible. Let God speak to you as you prepare to teach. Seek His guidance as you think of your students needs. Now consult the teacher's lesson notes (outline, main aims and body of lesson) and review the lesson until you feel you are able to teach without being stuck to your lesson booklet. As with Bible lessons, so too for story and song lyrics - become familiar with their content prior to teaching the children. Most teachers "make the lesson or story their own." They do not just read what is written in the book. Bible lessons are written as guides to help the teacher in study. Story texts may be read aloud to the class, but we encourage teachers to learn the story and tell it in their own words.
• Put yourself into the lesson or story: feel the situations and emotions of the characters. Reflect appropriate facial expressions and body movements that match the emotions of the characters in the lesson or story. (E.g.: If a person is sad, look sad. If something wonderful has happened, make your voice sound happy. Use different tones for your voice to convey personalities or communicate a conversation style format.)
• Show/hold the correct illustration at the appropriate time so that all children can see the picture. Keep your hands from covering big portions of the illustration. As the story progresses beyond the actions shown in the illustration, lay the book down until it is time to show the next scene/illustration.
• Maintain good eye contact with your class as you teach the Bible lesson. Explain the words or concepts of hymns prior to singing by using the coordinating illustrations.
• When telling a multi-chapter (or continued) story, use the illustrations to review previous chapters before beginning a new chapter. Ask questions about the illustration you are holding. Select only key illustrations for review.
• Some teachers prefer placing the flashcard book, turned to the appropriate illustrations, on an easel as they teach.
• When singing from a visualized song, you may prefer having another person help you hold the book to make it easier to turn the pages of the stanzas.
   

• Send an e-mail to: info@biblevisuals.org.
• Phone the BVI office: 717-859-1131 (Hours 9 to 4:30 EST, Monday through Thursday)
• Write: Bible Visuals International, PO Box 153, Akron, PA 17501-0153
• Visit the office: Please Click here to be taken to the map and directions.