Abingdon Press Website

Abingdon Press is an imprint of The United Methodist Publishing House, in operation since 1789. In the early 1920s, Abingdon began publishing a wide array of high-caliber academic, professional, inspirational, and life-affirming religious literature to enrich church communities across the globe. Now beginning its ninth decade, Abingdon Press has a commitment to providing the best, most effective religious publications available.

Augsburg Fortress Website

Augsburg Fortress Press is the publishing ministry of the ELCA.

Church Publishing Incorporated Website

Publisher of Episcopal prayer books, hymnals and other church titles.

Cokesbury Website

Retailer for Methodist, Presbyterian, and Epsicopal publishers but carries a wide variety of texts, church supplies, VBS, and robes and paraments. Catalog available. Store located in the Graceland shopping center in Columbus. Very helpful people.

Creative Communications Website

Creative Communications for the Parish is an ecumenical Christian publishing company based in St. Louis since its founding in 1977. Its packages appear in the mailboxes of many Southern Ohio parishes in time for planning for the major seasons of the church year. They have everything from devotional booklets to liturgies for special services like Thanksgiving Eve containing special hymns, and even a sermon to fit the liturgy. This is a mailing list that it pays to be on. Their own description of their catalogs follows.

“Creative’s catalogs, delivered with dozens of colorful samples, include a plethora of Christian print and electronic media products, many of them created by the editorial staff of Creative Communications. For over three decades, Creative’s authors have produced a large body of original hymn texts, devotional writings and liturgical services. Authors published by Creative have included Rev. Arden Mead, C. S. Lewis, Henri Nouwen, Frederick Buechner, John Henry Newman, Dr. Martin Marty, and Walter Wangerin.”

Creative Communications for the Parish, 1564 Fencorp Drive, Fenton, MO 63026

Toll-free: 800-325-9414
E-mail: info@creativecommunications.com.

CSS Publishing Website

CSS was founded in 1970 by two Lutheran pastors, both alums of Hamma School of Theology at Wittenberg University. Pr Wes Runk remains its president. It is based in Lima, Ohio. The company offers a wide range of material usually at a level that most congregations can use without trained facilitators. Their prices are reasonable and sales happen often.

Their own description of themselves is: the leading Christian publisher of Christian Books, Lectionary Resources, Sermon Books, Sermon Resources, Worship Resources, Pastoral Resources, Children’s Ministry Resources, Children’s Sermons, and many other worship and pastoral resources to meet the needs of pastors and the global ministry.

The toll free number is : 1-800-537-103.

Group Website

This is what they say about themselves.

“Group is much more than a publisher of ministry resources for Christian churches. Sure, we make an abundance of products for Sunday school, VBS, children’s ministry, youth ministry, and more. But what we really offer are experiences that grow your relationship with Jesus. Whether it’s a Bible lesson, kids’ craft, or teen mission trip, everything Group does revolves around getting closer to God.”

Many congregations in this Synod have successfully used VBS programs from Group. One recent innovation is their Weekend VBS. This works well for small congregations. For 2013 the title is Hay Day with a farm theme.

Westminster John Knox Press Website

Westminster John Knox Press (WJK) is the academic and trade imprint of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation (PPC). Books and resources published under the WJK imprint cover the spectrum of religious thought and represent the work of scholarly and popular authors of many different religious and theological affiliations. WJK publishes approximately 80 new books and other resources each year and manages a backlist of more than 1,800 titles that are sold throughout the world. Books published specifically for the PC (USA) are published under the Geneva Press imprint.

For nearly 170 years, WJK and its predecessors have served scholars, students, clergy, and general readers. Most of its publications are used in the training of seminarians, the dissemination of religious scholars’ work, and the spiritual and ethical formation of clergy and laity.

WJK has published numerous works by world-renowned authors including William Barclay, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Walter Brueggemann, Frederick Buechner, Brevard Childs, John Cobb, William Sloane Coffin, Marva Dawn, Craig Evans, Beverly Gaventa, Justo González, Serene Jones, David Kelsey, George Lindbeck, Tom Long, Dale Martin, Alister McGrath, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, Letty Russell, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Barbara Brown Taylor, Marjorie Thompson, Paul Tillich, Cornel West, Rowan Williams, Will Willimon, N. T. Wright, and many others.