Our first PBS student enrolled in July 1999, since then over 16,000 students have enrolled over the past 26 years. We currently have about 1,400 students, including over 400 in the USA, who receive free PBS lessons through the mail. We have a number of Hutterite, Mennonite and Amish families doing them, along with many who Homeschool their children. Each month, down in our basement, we print in colour, the four grades of BibleTime lessons, NewLife Bible Studies and Gleaners Bible Studies. (These specialized Bible study materials can also be downloaded from our website www.bible-n-more.com and used as Sunday School Lessons, Bible Class Worksheets and Home Bible Study Notes. Certificates are awarded to those who complete the full three-year course in each grade or who reach 5 or 10 years. Students accumulate marks towards prizes that they can request. These are also sent free of charge and include Bibles, stationery, story & reference books.
A faithful team of 161 teachers (who are in assemblies across N. America) mark the lessons, adding comments and encouraging their students. Anyone interested in becoming a PBS teacher can contact us at [email protected] or call 1-204-326-2750 and we will arrange to send you information for your prayerful consideration.
Postal Bible Studies has been the charity’s sole outreach since it was established. However, that changed in 2020 due to Covid-19. After hearing the excellent program, AnchorPoint Radio (APR) we decided to promote it across southern Manitoba, through newspaper ads and targeted VIA Magazine distributions through Canada Post. Each VIA had a label promoting either one of the four stations (sponsored by local assemblies) or the APR website. In October 2020, PBS approached Arctic Radio in northern Manitoba about the possibility of them airing APR on their three radio stations in Thompson, Flin Flon & The Pas. They began broadcasting APR on Sunday Nov. 1st at 9:00 pm. (COMPASS POINT airs daily, twice a day.)In Jan. 2021 PBS signed a one-year contract with NCI FM, a native, Manitoba-wide radio network heard via 56 transmitters located everywhere from Winnipeg to Churchill to broadcast APR each Sunday at 6:00 pm. (COMPASS POINT airs nightly at 9.50 pm Sunday to Thursday.)In May 2021 PBS signed a one-year contract with an independent station in Dauphin, MB (730 CKDM) to air both programs, with APR broadcasting on Sundays at 6:30 pm. (COMPASS POINT airs daily at 5:55 pm seven days a week.) Then in March 2023 Radio Caribbean Lighthouse, a mission radio station in Antigua, began airing AnchorPoint Radio on Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm across 23 Caribbean islands. In December 2023, they told us that it would also be broadcasting the same program on Sunday mornings at 5:30 am. (COMPASS POINT is also heard across the West indies twice a day.) PBS took on a new sponsorship in Jan. ’24 as CHSM in Steinbach agreed to us airing APR on Thursday evenings at 9.30 pm. It had previously been heard on a Sunday evening, but this contract hadn’t been renewed in August ’23
To date (Jan. ‘26) all have renewed their contracts with us for 2026, so we currently sponsor COMPASS POINT on 4 Manitoban stations & AnchorPoint Radio on 6 Manitoban stations. A further 6 Manitoban stations broadcast COMPASS POINT free of charge. Listen daily to COMPASS POINT at anytime on www.compasspoint.live
The costs of these literature and radio outreaches are being channeled through PRAIRIE BIBLE SERVICES which is a registered charitable organization, with a current board of 6 directors, and therefore are able to issue our own tax receipts for any gifts that we may receive directly for the work of PBS. Please ask GTC to indicate to us if the gift is for the radio work, thanks.