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Reformers is a non-profit
Nonprofit organization
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 Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 wholesaler and bookseller operating in Australasia
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...

, plus telephone, internet and mail order
Mail order
Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote method such as through a telephone call or web site. Then, the products are delivered to the customer...

 world-wide.
Originally set up in 1983 as a faith-based book ministry by Gabriel and Sue Lacoba of Stanmore
Stanmore, New South Wales
Stanmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Stanmore is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...

 Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 Church to sell Banner of Truth literature, Reformers expanded its range over the years and in 2007 became a Reformed Baptist/Presbyterian joint venture
Joint venture
A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...

 in partnership with the Theological Education Commmittee of, and (from July 2009) the Trustees
Reformers (Reformers Bookshop) is a non-profit
Nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

See the Australian Business Register Page detailing the ownership by three charitable organisations retrieved on 19 August 2011. Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 wholesaler and bookseller operating in Australasia
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...

, plus telephone, internet and mail order
Mail order
Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote method such as through a telephone call or web site. Then, the products are delivered to the customer...

 world-wide.See the official Reformers Bookshop Australian website and New Zealand website
Originally set up in 1983 as a faith-based book ministry by Gabriel and Sue Lacoba of Stanmore
Stanmore, New South Wales
Stanmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Stanmore is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...

 Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 ChurchSee both the congregational website and Australian Business Register History Page for Stanmore Baptist Church, both retrieved on 16 August 2011 to sell Banner of Truth literature,See the Banner of Truth article for the history of the early years of the bookshop. Reformers expanded its range over the years and in 2007 became a Reformed Baptist/Presbyterian joint venture
Joint venture
A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...

See the Australian Business Register entry. Retrieved on 4 June 2009. in partnership with the Theological Education CommmitteeThe TEC's role was both to govern the PTC and provide representation on the Reformers Governing Committee. See also the Australian Business Register History Page for the Joint Venture from 1st April 2007 retrieved on 16 August 2011. of, and (from July 2009) the Trustees
Reformers (Reformers Bookshop) is a non-profit
Nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

See the Australian Business Register Page detailing the ownership by three charitable organisations retrieved on 19 August 2011. Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 wholesaler and bookseller operating in Australasia
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...

, plus telephone, internet and mail order
Mail order
Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote method such as through a telephone call or web site. Then, the products are delivered to the customer...

 world-wide.See the official Reformers Bookshop Australian website and New Zealand website
Originally set up in 1983 as a faith-based book ministry by Gabriel and Sue Lacoba of Stanmore
Stanmore, New South Wales
Stanmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Stanmore is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...

 Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 ChurchSee both the congregational website and Australian Business Register History Page for Stanmore Baptist Church, both retrieved on 16 August 2011 to sell Banner of Truth literature,See the Banner of Truth article for the history of the early years of the bookshop. Reformers expanded its range over the years and in 2007 became a Reformed Baptist/Presbyterian joint venture
Joint venture
A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...

See the Australian Business Register entry. Retrieved on 4 June 2009. in partnership with the Theological Education CommmitteeThe TEC's role was both to govern the PTC and provide representation on the Reformers Governing Committee. See also the Australian Business Register History Page for the Joint Venture from 1st April 2007 retrieved on 16 August 2011. of, and (from July 2009) the TrusteesInformation on the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of NSW of, the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales.Australian Business Register History Page for the Joint Venture from 1st July 2009 retrieved on 16 August 2011. Its stated goal is to make available the best in historic and contemporary Christian literature
Christian literature
Christian Literature is writing that deals with Christian themes and incorporates the Christian world view. This constitutes a huge body of extremely varied writing.-Scripture:...

,As noted on the Presbyterian Church of Queensland website and its range reflects the theological stance of its various joint venture
Joint venture
A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...

 partners i.e. evangelical
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...

, reformed and conservative
Conservative Christianity
Conservative Christianity is a term applied to a number of groups or movements seen as giving priority to traditional Christian beliefs and practices...

 i.e. with a high view of the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 as the ultimate authority in all things of which it speaks.The Presbyterian Church of NSW is strongly evangelical and reformed, in its doctrine, church government and theology of worship. Its senior staff are theologically trained to ministerial level.Reformers website
Since 2007, it has grown to become the largest specialised seller of evangelical, reformed literature in Australasia, with a brochure mailing list stated to be over 20,000 copies. See the statement on the Reformers Subscribe page. Retrieved on 16 August 2011. In contrast with the multi-store approach of Koorong
Koorong
Koorong is a Christian bookstore chain operating across Australia. It is one of the two largest retailers of Christian books and media in Australia, along with Word book store chain.-History:...

 and Word
Word (bookstore)
The Word bookstore is a chain of nineteen Christian bookstores in Australia, plus telephone, internet and mail order. Word is the second-largest Australian Christian book seller after Koorong....

, Reformers appears to have adopted a single-distribution-centre-cum-internet strategy for sales and order fulfilment. It frequently ranks third (i.e. just behind Koorong
Koorong
Koorong is a Christian bookstore chain operating across Australia. It is one of the two largest retailers of Christian books and media in Australia, along with Word book store chain.-History:...

 and Word
Word (bookstore)
The Word bookstore is a chain of nineteen Christian bookstores in Australia, plus telephone, internet and mail order. Word is the second-largest Australian Christian book seller after Koorong....

) on the very first page of SERPs for Google Australia for terms such as "Christian bookshop;"See the Google Australia search of "christian bookshop" within Australia. Search performed on 16 August 2011. its Alexa
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...

 traffic rank is in the top 14.4% of all websites tracked by Alexa
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...

 worldwide;See the Alexa ranking report, which gave a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 4,472,452 i.e. in the top 14.38%. Retrieved on 18 August 2011. its Hubspot website grader
HubSpot
HubSpot is a venture-funded marketing software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its customer base grew from over 1,400 in July 2009 to over 3,600 in November 2010, mainly in the USA.-History:...

 ranking is 96, putting it in the top 4% of the 3.75 million websites ranked by HubSpot
HubSpot
HubSpot is a venture-funded marketing software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its customer base grew from over 1,400 in July 2009 to over 3,600 in November 2010, mainly in the USA.-History:...

;See the HubSpot Website Grader report. Retrieved on 16 August 2011. and it is active in social media, with a blogsiteReformers Bookbytes and Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

 page.Reformers Facebook Page
Reformers is the sole Australian trade distributorSee the article on the Sydney Anglicans website about the distributorship. Retrieved on 28 May 2009. for both The Good Book Company
The Good Book Company
The Good Book Company is an evangelical, reformed Christian publisher, located in New Malden, Surrey, England. They are structured as a large unquoted, private company, limited by share capital. Their practices include publishing, mission outreach and training.-History:TGBC began in 1991 under the...

,The Good Book Company website. with its well-known Christianity Explored
Christianity Explored
Christianity Explored is an informal Christian evangelistic teaching course developed by Rico Tice and Barry Cooper at All Souls Church, Langham Place, a leading evangelical Church of England church, and published by The Good Book Company....

Christianity Explored Stockist Listing and Discipleship Explored ranges (by Rico Tice
Rico Tice
Richard Ian Tice is an Anglican churchman and writer, co-author of Christianity Explored. He is currently Associate Minister at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, and is well known in the UK as a speaker at evangelical Christian conferences and an evangelist of national standing.-Early...

 and Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper (author)
Barry Cooper was born in Epsom, United Kingdom. He was educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago...

), and P&R Publishing (formerly Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing).The P&R Publishing Contact Us Page lists Reformers as the sole Australian and New Zealand distributor. Reformers is also an Australasian trade distributor or reseller for the imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...

s of a number of other well-known evangelical and reformed publishing houses, including Christian Focus,Christian Focus is a large, evangelical, Scottish publisher. Reformers is an Australian distributor - see the Christian Focus International Distributor List Banner of Truth, Baker Book House
Baker Book House
Baker Publishing Group is an evangelical Protestant Christian book publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It has six subdivisions: Bethany House, Revell, Baker Books, Baker Academic, Chosen and Brazos Press.-Identity:...

, Good News Crossway
Good News Publishers
Good News Publishers is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that publishes and distributes gospel tracts. Good News Publishers is the parent company of Crossway Books, a publisher of evangelical Christian books. Good News/Crossway is headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois...

, Day One,Reformers is a reseller for Day One Publications. Eerdmans,See the Eerdmans Australian Distributor listing, retrieved on 16 August 2011. Evangelical Press
Evangelical Press
Evangelical Press is a small Christian not-for-profit publisher of books, newspapers and tracts. It is based in Darlington in the United Kingdom and Carlisle, PA, USA, with employees also in Africa, France and Belarus. It serves a reformed conservative evangelical constituency...

,Reformers is a Partnership Bookstore of Evangelical Press, and shares its theological stance. Founders Press,Founders Press has a Southern Baptist perspective. Go Teach,Go Teach website Granted Ministries,See Granted Ministries International Distributor Page Inter-Varsity Press UK, Ligonier Ministries
Ligonier Ministries
Ligonier Ministries is a Reformed international Christian organization headquartered in the greater Orlando, Florida area. Founded by R. C. Sproul in the Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh over forty years ago, Ligonier's stated purpose is "to awaken as many people as possible to...

, Matthias Media
Matthias Media
Matthias Media is an award winning Australian evangelical Christian publisher. The business grew out of the ministry of Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne at St Matthias, Centennial Park, Sydney under the name St Matthias Press and Tapes. Many resources now published by Matthias Media were developed as...

 and Shepherd Press. Reformers trades under a number of other names throughout Australasia including Reformers Bookshop, Reformers Christian Bookshop, Great Christian Books and Advantage Plus.Australian Business Register Page for the Joint Venture from 1st July 2009 retrieved on 16 August 2011.
Reformers supplies the books, either directly or via third-party, to a number of significant Australian conferences, including the EQUIP Women's Conferences,EQUIP website. Katoomba Christian Convention
Katoomba Christian Convention
Katoomba Christian Convention is an interdenominational ministry providing evangelical Bible preaching to Christians.Conventions are held in KCC's 2300 seat auditorium at Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains approximately west of the Central Business District of Sydney, Australia.At present there are...

, Sydney Anglican Conferences and Banner of Truth Conferences,This conference attracts ministry workers from all around Australia and New Zealand, from Presbyterian, Christian Reformed, Anglican, Congregationalist and Reformed Baptist traditions. a biennial conference of reformed speakers.
Reformers also provides books for students of various reformed theological colleges,See the listing on the Australian College of Theology Resources Page. including the Presbyterian Theological Centre Sydney
Presbyterian Theological Centre
The Presbyterian Theological Centre is the theological college of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales. It provides theological education for candidates of the ministry and members of the laity, and is an approved teaching institution of the Australian College of Theology.The...

, the Queensland Theological College
Queensland Theological College
Queensland Theological College is a theological college in Queensland, Australia. Based in Brisbane, it is the training college of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland and takes a Reformed Evangelical or Reformed Protestant stance...

, the Presbyterian Theological College Melbourne
Presbyterian Theological College
The Presbyterian Theological College is the theological college of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. It provides theological education for candidates for the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, as well as for members of all Christian churches...

Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne website and the Reformed Theological College Geelong
Reformed Theological College
The Reformed Theological College is the theological college supported by the Christian Reformed Churches of Australia, the Reformed Churches of New Zealand and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia...

, as part of the Geneva Foundation grants.See PTC Scholarships and Bursaries for a description of the Geneva bursaries. The Geneva Foundation is an independent charitable organisation that makes grants to eligible bodies, primarily for the advancement of religious education. It also supports Christian missions via its sale-or-return arrangements with congregations.See the Reformers Bookshop About Us webpage. Reformers is a member of the Christian Bookselling Association of Australia.CBAA website

See also

  • Reformed baptist
    Reformed Baptist
    Reformed Baptists are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology. They can trace their history through the early modern Particular Baptists of England. The first Reformed Baptist church was formed in the 1630s...

  • The Good Book Company
    The Good Book Company
    The Good Book Company is an evangelical, reformed Christian publisher, located in New Malden, Surrey, England. They are structured as a large unquoted, private company, limited by share capital. Their practices include publishing, mission outreach and training.-History:TGBC began in 1991 under the...

  • Matthias Media
    Matthias Media
    Matthias Media is an award winning Australian evangelical Christian publisher. The business grew out of the ministry of Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne at St Matthias, Centennial Park, Sydney under the name St Matthias Press and Tapes. Many resources now published by Matthias Media were developed as...

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