Caribbean Christian Publications products are now distributed to 27 countries in the Caribbean region. These include nearly all the English-speaking countries as well as English-language churches in Spanish, French and Dutch-speaking countries of the region.   The largest users are Jamaica, The Bahamas, Belize, Trinidad and San Andres Island (Colombia) and Guyana. A growing number of non-Baptist, evangelical churches also use Caribbean Bible Lessons. Circulation now exceeds 55,000 pieces per issue.

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more than sun and sea, calypso and reggae, sugar cane and bananas, insistent street vendors and desperate boat people.

More than idyllic little island get-aways fringed with palms and white sand, all seeming very much alike.

• An extent of over 1,500 miles from north to south and nearly 2,000 miles from east to west.
• Large island countries like Cuba and tiny ones like Antigua;
• Atlantic islands like the Bahamas, and Central and South American countries like Belize and Guyana;
• Steep forested mountains, fruitful plains, dry flat coast lands, small rural villages and busy crowded cities;
• Thirty million people, most of European, African and East Indian descent with a long colonial history, whose native tongues are Spanish, English, French and Dutch, as well as various Creole and Patois dialects. Less than a quarter are English-speaking;
• A few wealthy 'haves' in a sea of struggling 'have-nots', sharing an economically depressed region, heavily dependent on the USA;
• Twenty- first century symbols such as computers and mobile phones alongside pre-20th Century ones like coal pots and hand carts;
• People claiming allegiance to Christianity, Hinduism and Islam, as well as to various Afro-Caribbean and American-based religions and cults;
• Among adherents to Christianity, dominant Catholicism, growing Pentecostalism and Seventh Day Adventism, and old mainline Protestant denominations;
• About 200,000 Baptists, with the largest concentrations in The Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba.