When I was 21, I wanted to be a pastor and go to Dallas Seminary. As I was pursuing those things, I realized my motivations were wrong. I got on my knees and asked God to break my desires and give me a unique vision, “Help me not fall into the vocational ministry trap where I inwardly chase the dream to have a big church, sign a book deal, and travel as an itinerant speaker.” From that prayer, God birthed Press Bible:

Originally, our mission was to create a Bible app that helped young people engage with God’s Word.

After working on this mission for a few years, I realized that the Bible app space was just too crowded. Nothing made us different. We simply couldn’t break through the noise. Instead of walking away, I wanted to still use what I learned in digital missions to affect people’s lives. So after repurposing our focus here’s what Press is about:

Press is on a mission to use technology to get people into local churches.

In short, there’s plenty of digital ministries that have amassed a large following, but the next big challenge is how to help these ministries connect their users with a local church – where discipleship happens. In order to solve a problem, we’ve partnered with other ministries and together we’re solving this problem through the Press Bible app. 

Here’s what our process looks like: 

Our process is similar to an Iceberg. On the surface, people see a Bible app, but underneath there’s a system designed to take people from an app to a church. 

Here are the results since relaunching 16 months ago: 

This is just the beginning. Our next goal is to scale this app-to-church model by partnering with other digital ministries. We have some exciting things we’re going to launch soon that will address this! 

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Maison Tirado-Egas
Executive Director, Press Bible
maison@pressbible.com