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First Fruits and the Global Community

(as of May 2021)

Since 2012, First Fruits Press has provided an opportunity for Asbury Theological Seminary to reach out globally and provide free academic resources in the form of books, journal articles, and academic papers. There have currently been almost 900,000 downloads of First Fruits material from 226 countries. There has also been a dramatic increase in downloads due to the recent pandemic in 2020 as many libraries and institutions were forced to temporarily close access to their materials. The distribution of downloads can be seen on the map below:

First Fruits material has been downloaded in every area of the world, with North America making up roughly half of the downloads, but Europe, Africa, and Asia about equally distributed around 12-15% each. Latin American access is growing as we add more Spanish language material, but even hard to reach areas, such as the Middle East are able to access First Fruits. The distribution of downloads by region is shown here:

The top ten nations for downloads of First Fruits materials since we started in 2012 are:

1. United States- 409,984
2. United Kingdom- 37,513
3. Nigeria- 34,358
4. Canada- 34,169
5. India- 26,567
6. Philippines- 25,068
7. China- 18,233
8. South Africa- 17,437
9. Kenya- 17,065
10. Australia- 15,629

Asbury Theological Seminary has made a dramatic impact in the global academic world through its resources provided through First Fruits Press, including The Asbury Journal, The Journal of Inductive Bible Study, and Faith and Philosophy. As we move into the future, we are well positioned to supply material from a Wesleyan-Holiness perspective to all areas of the world to further learning and research opportunities for the Global Church.