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Tyndale House Publishers New Christian
TRADE NEWS completes acquisition of bookshop for

Hendrickson Publishing Group
Dundee

Tyndale House Publishers and Hendrickson Publishing Group have announced that Hendrickson
Publishing Group has been acquired by Tyndale House Publishers. The Hendrickson Publishing April 2020 saw the closure of some Christian
Group, including its Rose Publishing imprints, will continue to operate autonomously from their bookshops across the UK including our own
current locations but will work under a united mission with Tyndale. CLC Bookshop here in Dundee, on the east
coast of Scotland. CLC had a presence in
Mat Owen, executive director of The KingswayCLC Trust adds, ‘we are pleased to be taking on Dundee for over forty years in a few different
the UK distribution of Hendrickson Publishing Group and Rose Publishing alongside our well- locations, serving the city and surrounding
established representation of Tyndale House Publishers. Hendrickson and Rose have a trusted regions of Angus and Fife.
heritage and produce books with sound biblical content for reference and study. Rose is well After six years working with CLC in Dundee
known for their range of pamphlets on a wide variety of topics and Hendrickson have a wide and across Scotland I was certain that God
range of academic titles.’ For more information contact The KingswayCLC Trust. was still calling me to a life of service through
bookshop ministry – that same life of service
now includes my family too. My wife Dani
served with CLC briefly before we closed the
Equip Aberdeen Christian bookshop and has been vital in setting up our
new venture.
Resource Centre In early September this year, after renovating
a space at City Church Dundee, we opened
Equip Aberdeen has been trading for a participated in Refuel (a Christian festival Barnabas Christian Bookshop; a bookshop to
few months in partnership with King’s based in Fochabers, near Elgin) providing a encourage our city.
Church Aberdeen. bookstall to feed into the main teaching and
seminars. It was a great time for me and the Our bookshop is staffed by a team of local
It has been a blessing to partner with a church volunteers from different churches in the
and share their space alongside a coffee bar in volunteers to engage with the local church in city. We stock new Christian books, Bibles,
the Northeast and get back into the swing of
their main foyer. Not only has this been good in cards and gifts as well as a range of selected
terms of having a nice locality to be based in, Christian events. second-hand books. We also provide
but it has been great to come alongside King’s Since then we’ve been continuing to make bookstalls for a variety of church meetings,
Church to help resource and work together with connections with local churches and Christian events and conferences.
them on events they’ve run for mission. groups through a few events and making it
known generally about our new shop with its For more information on the Barnabas
We’ve also started connecting with other fresh look. Christian Bookshop:
churches and Christian groups to help resource E: sales@barnabasbookshop.com
them and the events they run. In July we Something that has been a real
encouragement for me and my team is the
gradual growth of interest in what’s going
on with us and King’s, and seeing a steady
increase of people from the wider church in
Aberdeen coming in to enjoy the facilities and
see first-hand what partnership between a
church and ourselves could look like. For Mark and Dani Buchanan
Equip Bookshop more information contact Grant Brown at
grant@equippingthechurch.com.

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