About Us
We set out to find a way to make The Holy Bible irresistible, enjoyable, understandable and memorable to children, without rewriting what God wrote, so that they would build a lifetime habit of reading the Bible.
It took 8 dedicated Christian men & women 6 years to design & illustrate 7,500 full color illustrations that faithfully follow the actual Bible text.
About How it looks
You’ll notice right away that ALL the text in this illustrated Bible is without any changes from conventional KJV, NASB, or the ICB – and coming soon: Ancient texts like: Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic & modern Spanish.
About “Free” illustrated Bibles
We sell our illustrated Bibles and Bible books in every Language and country that wants to publish it. Our Bible Books are currently in Korean, Arabic, Indonesian, Swedish, Norwegian, Slovenian, Chinese, Greek and Portuguese (Brazil).
In most of the World, millions of people can’t afford to buy Bibles. (Over 2,000 Languages in fact.) We offer Licenses to print or record eBooks and eMovies, at no cost, to Christian organizations, Missionaries and Churches who minister in these areas. We also offer any assistance we can through FREE art, designed pages, direction, and tutorials, to anyone who makes a valid request.
There is a missionary in a South East China farming community, who is translating their spoken Language into a written language. He then writes actual Bible Books and adds our illustrations. He knows it will take a generation for those interested to learn to read their new Bible, so he recorded a local man reading the Scripture, chapter by chapter and replaced the English narration of our eMovies and now the actual Word of God is circulating on Laptop and used Tablets through the entire community. This small farming community has a population of around 2 million people.
In most of the World, millions of people can’t afford to buy Bibles. (Over 2,000 Languages in fact.) We offer Licenses to print or record eBooks and eMovies, at no cost, to Christian organizations, Missionaries and Churches who minister in these areas. We also offer any assistance we can through FREE art, designed pages, direction, and tutorials, to anyone who makes a valid request.
There is a missionary in a South East China farming community, who is translating their spoken Language into a written language. He then writes actual Bible Books and adds our illustrations. He knows it will take a generation for those interested to learn to read their new Bible, so he recorded a local man reading the Scripture, chapter by chapter and replaced the English narration of our eMovies and now the actual Word of God is circulating on Laptop and used Tablets through the entire community. This small farming community has a population of around 2 million people.
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We did not use the word "FREE" to get you to our website, alone. Most of the children who read the illustrated Bible in an actual text and their own Language got it for FREE. All our income comes from sales and from folks in Countries who can afford it. But, since we don't have an English Publisher and most Christian Bookstores have gone under, our Books, eBooks or eMovies, are sold by us directly, thereby, keeping our prices low.
When you purchase one of our eMovies, (Videos) or eBooks, (PDFs) you are partnering with us in providing children, as well as adults with an actual Bible they have probably never seen or heard before, all over the World, for FREE. |
A Child in Africa reading a FREE paperback of the Illustrated Bible.
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Why Did We Create the Illustrated Bible?
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“30% of the world’s population is under the age of 15.
70% of children are born into non-Christian homes.
40 million children in North America have not heard the Gospel and
85% of all Christians accept Christ before the age of 14."*
70% of children are born into non-Christian homes.
40 million children in North America have not heard the Gospel and
85% of all Christians accept Christ before the age of 14."*
* Child Evangelism Fellowship
How we Created the Illustrated Bible
Building the BEST Bible ever.
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1. We start with a selection of exact Words from the Scripture.
2. We visualize what is going on in the text and create a story board with size, and position of the elements in the spaces. |
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3. This is the selected photo of the costumed model.
4. A finished drawing is drawn on bond paper with pencil. |
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5. The drawing is sized and placed on the page in the computer.
6. The background is painted in. |
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7. And then the finished rendering is added.
8. Finally the boxes, balloons and Bible text are added in QuarkXPress. |
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9. Here is the finished art page.
10. This is a stack of just some of the 10,000 individual drawings used. |
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In all, there are over 7,500 paintings on 2,000 Pages of the entire Bible. It took 8 dedicated Christian artists, 6 years to complete this task.
We believe we have made a Bible, under God’s direction, that is the most accurate, easiest to follow, understand, memorable and therefore, irresistible and enjoyable to read. We welcome your questions or comments. Go to “contact us.” |
This is Keith painting on his WACOM
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Contributors and Copyrights
Video narration by Dale McConachie.
Audio production by Dale McConachie, Hear Book Audio
Art and Layout Copyright© 2006 Neely Publishing LLC.
Keith R Neely, David Miles, Roberta Neely
James Balkovek, Kevin Davidson, Thomas Zuber
Bridget Harlow, and Bruce Weeks
Audio production by Dale McConachie, Hear Book Audio
Art and Layout Copyright© 2006 Neely Publishing LLC.
Keith R Neely, David Miles, Roberta Neely
James Balkovek, Kevin Davidson, Thomas Zuber
Bridget Harlow, and Bruce Weeks
Translation: The New American Standard Bible (NASB) translation
Copyright© 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation La Habra, CA.
All rights reserved.
International Children's Bible® (ICB)
Copyright© 1986, 1988, 1999 by Tommy Nelson™, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Copyright© 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation La Habra, CA.
All rights reserved.
International Children's Bible® (ICB)
Copyright© 1986, 1988, 1999 by Tommy Nelson™, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. All Rights Reserved
