Our Purpose is:

to make evangelical literature available to all nations, so that people may come to a faith and maturity in the Lord Jesus Christ.

As part of a worldwide missionary organisation. CLC Australia is committed to the work worldwide. We are heavily involved in the work in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the Pacific Regions.

CLC Australia's ministry is maintained by sales and through contributions of God's people. Funds given to support individuals, or for specific projects are used as requested

International Office

CLC is an international mission with about 800 full-time workers in 54 countries, and at the heart of it is our International Office with our International Co-ordinator Neil Wardrope and his team.

Neil is supported by a number of Area Co-ordinators in different parts of the world, and between them they keep in touch with all our fields, giving them encouragement and advice, and visiting when they can


Who are we?

CLC stands for CHRISTIAN LITERATURE CRUSADE, more commonly known today as CLC International.
CLC is an International Christian Literature mission comprised of people drawn from many nationalities, denominations and backgrounds. All are dedicated to serving the Lord Jesus Christ and to the task of helping others to know Him better, primarily through the tool of the printed page.
CLC is not just a chain of bookshops, but a ministry which desires to see people's lives changed though making evangelical literature available to all nations so that people may come to faith and maturity in Christ.
CLC strives to impact individuals, families, communities and entire nations through their various ministries. Each book centre becomes a place where people can browse, buy and benefit as they discuss spiritual matters.

Local ministries may include:

Reading and lending libraries, mail order programs, wholesaling to other book outlets., special counseling facilities or a place to drink coffee with friends, bookmobiles go where people have little or no access to Gospel Literature to market places, fairs, shows and isolated towns. Book tables are frequently set up in conjunction with local churches. Publishing and printing is undertaken in areas where there is a shortage of suitable literature. Each country, through its excess finance, invests in the furthering of the work in the local community, nationally or internationally.

Who are we?

CLC stands for CHRISTIAN LITERATURE CRUSADE, more commonly known today as CLC International.
CLC is an International Christian Literature mission comprised of people drawn from many nationalities, denominations and backgrounds. All are dedicated to serving the Lord Jesus Christ and to the task of helping others to know Him better, primarily through the tool of the printed page.
CLC is not just a chain of bookshops, but a ministry which desires to see people's lives changed though making evangelical literature available to all nations so that people may come to faith and maturity in Christ.
CLC strives to impact individuals, families, communities and entire nations through their various ministries. Each book centre becomes a place where people can browse, buy and benefit as they discuss spiritual matters.

Local ministries may include:

Reading and lending libraries, mail order programs, wholesaling to other book outlets., special counseling facilities or a place to drink coffee with friends, bookmobiles go where people have little or no access to Gospel Literature to market places, fairs, shows and isolated towns. Book tables are frequently set up in conjunction with local churches. Publishing and printing is undertaken in areas where there is a shortage of suitable literature. Each country, through its excess finance, invests in the furthering of the work in the local community, nationally or internationally.

To achieve CLC’s vision in Australia we are involved in:

  • Bookshop Ministries in Bundaberg, Cairns, Canberra, Mackay, Mt Isa, Brisbane (3 shops), Townsville, Wagga Wagga, and Alice Springs
  • Mobile Outreach ministry to far North Queensland & Torres Strait Islands
  • Book Depots in many isolated areas, like Thursday Island.
  • Pacific Book Link: To collect, send & distribute second-hand books & Bibles, and subsidise new products for people overseas in desperate need of Christian Literature.
  • Responsible for Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Fiji and financially assists many other countries.

What makes us different?

    Externally, we hope nothing, our aim is to provide a caring ministry and professional service aimed at reaching (out to the unconverted) and teaching (to believers).

    The less obvious aspect of our work is the funds we provide to develop work overseas, spreading Christian literature wherever there is a need.

    In an increasingly competitive market with escalating costs, how is this possible? Because of the individual commitment of our workers. Money is available because workers do not receive salaries, but trust God to provide their everyday needs. In practice this means being supported by church, interested friends and general gifts made to CLC. It can and does mean sacrificing on occasions but as many of our workers will tell you, God can and does provide in the most amazing ways!

Getting Involved. Want to know more?

Below are 3 ways in which you could be involved in the work of CLC:

  1. Short-term work is an ideal opportunity for those who want to spend a specific length of time serving God before moving on to other things, or as part of a sandwich course, or who would like to experience the work before making a long term commitment.
  2. Full-time work is available to those who sense God's calling to commit themselves to a longer term serving Him.
  3. Volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds: from students working after school, school-leavers, retirees, via mums whose children are at school and whoever has some spare time. They generally help at their local centre at a regular time each week and their contribution to our work is really indispensable.

Want to know more about any of these opportunities (Just contact us).

No other medium can witness so daringly - abide so persistently - or influence so irresistibly as the printed page. It can be obtained and studied secretly - get undivided attention in quiet hours - leap language and cultural barriers that hamper personal contact - go where the human missionary cannot - and it lives after the spoken word is lost.

Statistics show we automatically forget much of what we hear and remember more of what we read.

CLC Yesterday

CLC was founded in England in 1941 by Ken & Bessie Adams. They had a vision for Christian Literature. On sharing a certain need with Norman Grubb (Director of a missionary organisation), which might have led to the closing of their Christian Bookshop, Norman Grubb responded, “Close it? Indeed not! We should have bookshops like this all across the country - a chain of Christian bookshops, a sort of “Spiritual Woolworths”. It witnessed immediately with Ken and Bessie. Their bookshop was to become the first of a chain of book stores throughout the country and linked to a missionary organisation. As they prayed and dreamed, the vision kept on enlarging. Not only a chain of Christian bookshops throughout the country but throughout the world. It was to be a work with a strong evangelistic thrust, but it would appear as a Christian business to the uninformed. God was showing them that literature was a special type of evangelism and there needed to be a mission that would dedicate itself to the radical distribution of God's word and good quality Christian Literature!

CLC Today

CLC is best known for bookshops. With more than 200 bookshops around the world, more than 700 workers working in about 60 countries and sending out literature to another 94 countries it truly is a mission dedicated to literature distribution. Nearly 70% of their ministry involves operating Christian bookshops as a strategic way of touching thousands of people's lives.

CLC Tomorrow

Although we are proud of our roots, the Head of our mission is the Lord Jesus Himself. He enables us to look at the opportunities that God is presenting to us in the modern world. In this way we can rely on the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit at the same time as we use the latest technology to introduce, through literature, the unsaved to Jesus and aid Christians to come to a maturity of their faith in Jesus Christ.