Our Mission
To provide financial support to organizations translating Christian texts into native languages
Our BEGINNING
Palmer Adams, a US soldier, returned to the United States from France at the end of the Second World War. He took Christ into his heart and dedicated himself to spreading the Word of God. Soon he returned to France where he met Ruth Holdcroft, who was working in a Christian Youth program. Together they spent over 30 years in France as missionaries helping create and sustain churches throughout France.
When they retired they weren’t done spreading the Word. In the late 1980s they returned to the states, choosing to live in Vermont, in part so they could be close to Quebec because Ruth was a Canadian citizen. They started PARA Resources Foundation to translate and publish Christian works, originally written in English, into French.
PARA is from Biblical Greek, meaning “helper, one called alongside to help.” Their publications were sold throughout the world wherever French was the native language.
Palmer died in August 2009 and for the next few years Ruth carried on the publishing work. Ruth died in 2017 at the age of 103.