FCA Celebrates The Greatest Gift: Distributing Over 244,000 Bibles In 2025
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While many athletes may think that footballs, cleats, hockey pucks and lacrosse sticks may be their main athletic equipment, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA, www.fca.org) is devoted to ensuring that one resource remains above all others — the Bible.
As a sports ministry, FCA has engaged in Bible ministry since its first Camp in 1956. Printing over 200,000 Bibles every year and distributing almost 3 million Bibles around the world in the past 15 years, FCA is one of the most committed Bible distributors in the world. FCA’s partners at Biblica have even said, “When you think about FCA, you think about a sports ministry, but what’s incredible is their commitment to utilizing Scripture.”
“FCA’s focus on Bible distribution is one of the many reasons why God continues to work through our ministry each and every day,” said FCA President and CEO Shane Williamson. “Being devoted to God’s Word and Biblical truth has allowed coaches and athletes around the world to be witnesses to His transformative power both on and off the field.”
FCA distributed 244,650 Bibles in 2025 alone, as it marked 71 years of remaining faithful to the mission of guiding every coach and athlete into a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church.
Below is a brief overview of FCA’s Bible distribution history: 1956 The Athlete’s Bible The first FCA Bibles were printed for Camp in 1956 with the FCA logo on the cover. As FCA Camps grew, new Bible covers were designed with each year’s theme and camp curriculum was added. The Bible became a key resource for those leading Huddles and other ministry events. Today, this resource is referred to as the FCA Athlete’s Bible, and it continues to be the cornerstone of the Bible ministry and FCA’s most requested Bible resource.
2003 More Bible Resources FCA’s Bible distribution exploded when FCA introduced a Sports New Testament that included testimonies from pro athletes and coaches. Today, FCA has printed more than 1 million of these resources. Staff in Mississippi dreamed up the concept of a Coach’s Bible that included 365 devotions written by and for coaches. The resource was a hit! Due to the Coach’s Bible popularity, other devotional Bibles were released. Today, FCA prints, distributes and engages coaches and athletes with more than 10 varieties of Bi- continued from page
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2006 Language Translations
FCA printed its first Spanish New Testament in 2006. Since then, multiple resources have been translated and printed, such as FCA’s Heart of an Athlete devotional in Chinese and Spanish, Japanese Baseball New Testament, Chinese Sports Devotional Bible and Russian Coach’s Bible. In 2017, FCA began distributing 50,000 Thai Sports New Testaments and 10,000 Vietnamese Sports New Testaments. In 2018, FCA Sports Bible Handbooks were printed in Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Ukrainian, Russian and Urdu. Today, FCA prints New Testaments, Sports Bibles, Sports Bible Handbooks and more in Arabic, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Korean, Urdu, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese.
2013 Going Digital A 2013 partnership with YouVersion offered FCA reading plans to engage coaches and athletes in God’s Word. FCA began releasing e-Bible versions of all Camp Bibles in 2015. Today, FCA has more than 100 Bible reading plans in numerous languages on You-Version, including Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese and Korean. More than 2 million users have subscribed to FCA’s digital Bible reading plans, with over 1 million completions. 2025 FCA Resources Web App Launched this Fall, it offers a robust array of resources, including a fully searchable Bible in both English and Spanish, devotions, studies and reading plans for personal reflection or group use and huddles with group tools that help participants track activity, share notes and grow together. It also provides a custom content library with personalized recommendations in multiple languages, along with a dynamic and continually expanding collection of content featuring new Bible tools and regularly added features.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ vision is to see the world transformed by Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes. Its mission is to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church. FCA’s guiding values are integrity, serving, teamwork and excellence.
Since 1954, FCA has used the powerful medium of sports and building relationships to reach the world for Jesus Christ. FCA is cultivating Christian principles by engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to know and grow in Christ and lead others to do the same so that lives are changed for current and future generations.
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