New Announcements
On Aug. 26, 2020, the Southwestern Theological Seminary Executive Board decided to distribute TWENDL to students and faculty.
We have shipped the first release of TWENDL to Assam, India. They will also be a switch that can connect one copy to up to eight computers.
Here is a sample, BibleQuery App of a new program on TWENDL.

TWENDL (The William E. Nix Digital Library) consists of a 397 gigabyte collection of digital texts and recordings currently being used in various parts of the world. Scanning for the TWENDL was first begun in 1982.

Through the auspices of Advancing Indigenous Missions (AIM) who, without my input, made its initial release by Dr. Grant C. Richison when he and I were on a mission trip to Nepal and various mission stations in India just prior to the death of my first wife (Eulaine Joyce Nix).

That format became known as The William E. Nix Electronic Library (TWENEL) as the basic internet library Veritas Evangelical Seminary (VES) and was instrumental in the accreditation of that institution (now Veritas International University). Our format for distribution is as Local Area Network (LAN) installations using external hard drives and flash drives independent of, and apart from the internet.

This decision came as a result of President Barack Obama’s statement that he wanted to transfer the internet to the United Nations (this would imperil Christian ministries in America, as it does in many countries).

As a result of our strategic decision we needed to install our programs directly into TWENDL. During the years since these decisions were made, I married my second wife (Carmen Walker) who was then President of VisionWalk International Ministries, Inc. (VIM). VIM was an international evangelistic directed by Dr. Laurance M. “Larry” Walker, until the time of his death in 2014, and Carmen was elected President of VIM. She began the process of winding down VIM after her husband’s death following their 40 years of evangelistic missionary service. In January 2019, Carmen requested that VIM be reactivated and that I bring The Electronic Bible Society (EBS) with its two subsidiaries (Digital Publications (DP)) and TWENDL into VIM’s 501(C)(3) structure. EBS, DP and TWENDL were previously operating as unincorporated DBA entities with renewable 10-year life spans requiring renewal or incorporation. Since our mission statements required very little modification (having been drawn up by the same attorney), this realignment was approved unanimously by both boards of directors.

The change was accomplished in March 2019 and a new Board of Directors was being selected when Carmen Walker Nix passed away (April 20, 2019). On May 21, 2019, the Board of Directors met and elected me as President of VIM. I then engaged the services of Dr. Steve Morrison, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, as programmer. He is a dedicated Christian Apologist and is highly skilled in computer programming. In late February 2019, we had progressed to the point that, as president of VIM, I was able to offer TWENDL to Dr. Adam Greenway, the newly elected President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) of Fort Worth, Texas. Meetings have been ongoing between VIM and SWBTS since that time.

Among other things, I provided a distribution strategy for TWENDL and its missionary outreach. This strategy, in a nutshell, consists of TWENDL presenting a portable hard drive copy of TWENDL to students and others preparing to make mission trips as a part of course and degree requirements at SWBTS. The students and others will be taught how to use (and train others how to use) TWENDL. The students and others would carry portable hard drive copies to their missionary assignments and train missionaries how to use TWENDL. They would also be able to provide online and distance assignments to be completed following the mission itself. In order to facilitate this strategy, they would leave their copy of TWENDL on the mission field for continued use and training in each local area network (LAN) setting. This procedure would be repeated each time a SWBTS mission trips is achieved.

Currently there are more approximately 95(±) seminaries targeted in Southeast Asia, India, and other locations throughout the world. TWENDL will continue to be owned and produced by VIM and its updating and distribution will be on a non-exclusive basis. There will be no cost for production, duplication, and distribution of these copies of TWENDL. TWENDL is not to be sold, leased, rented, or otherwise encumbered for its recipients.

Here is a 5-minute video of how someone can use TWENDL.

As a result of VIM’s mission and methodology, we would solicit your participation in our enterprise on the following basis:
   Providing us good Christians materials, and permission to use them in TWENDL, that you have authority to give.
   Good Christian materials that are no longer under copyright are also desired.
   Financial help to make TWENDL available to missionaries, pastors, and seminarians for free. We have to pay for hard drives and postage.

Talk with us at info@twendl.org

What's on TWENDL
397 GB total
128 GB of general teaching, including 18 GB of Bible Studies
  21 GB of church history and patrology
  59 GB relating to Copts, Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Nestorians
  38 GB relating to Islam, 37 GB relates to other religions
  32 GB secular and other, including 38 other languages besides English