About William Carey Publishing

Founded in 1969, William Carey Library (WCL) celebrates nearly six decades of ministry. In the late 1960s, the faculty at Fuller Seminary’s School of World Mission saw the need to start a publishing function to make the school’s steady stream of theses available to a wider audience. They asked Ralph Winter to determine how to accomplish that.

Dr. Allen Swanson, one of Dr. Winter’s students, recalled, “One day he [Dr. Winter] came into class waving a thesis manuscript in hand (mine) and announced what a tragedy it is to leave such writings to collect dust in library archives, and thus was born 'mini-publishing' and the William Carey Library.” As a result, WCL played an important role in delivering the incredible research and new insights produced by the school to missionaries and missiologists.

Before long, the whole Winter family was running a publishing house, which evolved into a major contributor to global church growth and frontier mission movements. After 50 years, WCL rebranded as William Carey Publishing (WCP) but continues its legacy of publishing innovation on behalf of the kingdom. To date, WCP has published around 500 titles and sold over 1 million mission-related books, more than a quarter-million of which are through the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement program, which operates in 40+ countries.

WCP's goal is to shape and advance the missiological conversation in the world.

Dr. Winter once observed that WCP is not in the book publishing business but in the information business. WCP aims to be at the forefront of disseminating the essential knowledge the global church requires to finish the task of world evangelization.

WCP's Mission

With a sense of divine urgency and purpose, William Carey Publishing publishes resources that edify, equip, and empower disciples of Jesus to make disciples of Jesus.