Bible Engagement – NZLPA – NZ Lay Preacher's Association

“The Well” curated online Library

The Well is a free, curated online library launched in July 2025 by Bible Society New Zealand, designed to support churches, educators, lay leaders, and ministry volunteers across Aotearoa Facebook+9United Bible Societies+9YouTube+9. It offers:

Bible Study guides for adults, youth, and children

Daily Scripture reading plans to nurture ongoing engagement

A "Little Believers" resources kit for early childhood faith formation

A Bible Quiz Pack for group engagement and community-building

A “Choosing the Right Bible” guide to help users select a suitable Bible version

Audio Bibles, including a Māori edition with English translations forthcoming

The platform is shaped as a ministry partnership tool — consolidating previously dispersed resources into one accessible hub. Its goal is to simplify access to Bible-based tools, encourage biblical literacy, and deepen faith engagement across diverse expressions of church, family, and community life in New Zealand.

BibleProject

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BibleProject (formerly The Bible Project) is a non‑profit, crowdfunded ministry founded in 2014 by Tim Mackie and Jon Collins. It creates free, multimedia educational resources for exploring the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus.

Key highlights:

Animated videos unpack each book of the Bible, key themes, literary design, and theological narrative .

Podcasts, study guides, online classes, and a mobile app extend learning beyond the videos .

Videos and resources are available in multiple languages, making it accessible globally .

As of early 2024, BibleProject had produced 180+ videos, 350 podcasts, and received over 620 million views across 200 countries. The content is tailored for individuals, church groups, and educators in both devotional and teaching contexts.

YouVersion

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YouVersion—also known as The Bible App or Bible.com—is a free global Bible platform developed by Life.Church, launched in 2007–2008. It empowers users worldwide to engage with Scripture in over 3,000 Bible versions and more than 2,000 languages, including extensive audio and offline access.

Key features include:

Bible reading, listening, and daily devotional plans (Bible Plans) tailored for individuals and groups, many developed in partnership with ministries like BibleProject.

Tools for personal engagement: highlights, bookmarks, public/private notes, verse‑image creation (shareable Bible art), tracking of reading habits, and shared reading with friends.

Massive global reach: hundreds of millions of installs (on track to hit one billion devices in 2025), billions of highlighted verses and shared plans, and active community interaction.

YouVersion’s mission is to make God’s Word accessible and life-shaping for everyone, everywhere—and it’s increasingly shaped by partnerships, translation initiatives, and user-driven devotional content.

The Field Guide to the Bible: Making Some Sense of an Ancient Book With Really Tiny Font.

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For many young Christians and people new to the Bible, not knowing where to start reading is a key barrier to the Bible playing an important role in their faith. This along with confusion about how the Bible fits together as a whole and how it connects with real life has led Bible Society to develop a unique brand new product: The Field Guide to the Bible.

At more than 100 pages, and including lots of Bible reading helps, fun tips and illustrations, The Field Guide to the Bible is especially designed to equip young people with ways to connect with God through the Bible. It also features a timeline and narrative of key events in the Bible as well as practical, brief, introductions to each book of the Bible.

Jeremy Woods, Youth and Young Adult Specialist at BSNZ says it’s a unique product as so many existing Bible commentaries and study guides are aimed at an adult audience and are quite complex, especially for young people new to the Bible and the Christian faith.