Our Daily Bread Ministries

It started in 1938 with a radio programme called the Detroit Bible Class, taught by Dr. M. R. DeHaan, a physician who became a Bible teacher. By the time he died in 1965 the broadcast was carried by 600 stations.

The devotional that grew out of that programme is what most people know: one page a day, a passage, a story and a prayer. The ministry describes itself as non-denominational and non-profit, and reports more than 60 million resources distributed in 150 countries through staff and volunteers in over 37 offices — in print, by email, in an app, as a podcast, and on radio and television.

One honest note for Polish readers. The language list on odb.org still links a Polish edition at codziennychleb.org, but that page now carries a farewell: the publishers write that „Nasz Codzienny Chleb” is no longer available in Polish, thank their readers for the years, and point them to odb.org to see which languages remain.

• Founded
  1938, as a radio programme called the Detroit Bible Class
• Founder
  Dr. M. R. DeHaan, who led the ministry until his death in 1965
• Based in
  Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Character
  Non-denominational and non-profit, by their own description
• Reach
  More than 60 million resources in 150 countries, with staff and volunteers in over 37 offices, by their own reporting
• You get
  The daily devotional in print, by email, in an app and as a podcast, plus radio and television programmes, books and courses
• Languages
  Around 25 language editions are listed on their site
• Cost
  The devotional is offered to readers online, by email and in the app, and the ministry asks for donations. We did not find a published price list on their site
• Leadership
  Dr. M. R. DeHaan founded the ministry and led it until 1965, and his family led it for decades afterwards. The current president is not named on the About pages we checked
• Polish
  No Polish edition is produced now. The language list on odb.org still links codziennychleb.org, but that page states that „Nasz Codzienny Chleb” is not available in Polish any more
• What we checked
  The founding year, the reach figures and the non-denominational description come from their own About and Our Story pages, and the language editions from the list published on odb.org

Our Daily Bread Ministries does not sponsor or endorse Embassy of the Kingdom, and we are not affiliated with them. We list them because we checked them and would put them in a friend’s hands. If you lead a ministry and would like to be considered, or believe something here should be corrected, write to us — we read every message ourselves.