In Memoriam

“suddenly made alive in Christ Jesus”. From that day on, he was moved to read the Bible through and through with an insatiable thirst for the Word of God that lasted his entire life. Within two years of his conversion he had been placed under the tutelage of a sound and Godly preacher who introduced him to the powerful Christian insights of the Puritan works. He was also accepted as a student-by-mail of Arthur W. Pink, a Christian evangelist and Biblical scholar of notable influence and works.In 1954, Jay P. Green, Sr. founded Sovereign Grace Publishers. The Lord filled his heart with an urgency to share the knowledge he received from reading and studying the many published works of the Puritans. Those studies led him to reprint many of the Puritan works (over 150 titles) as well as non-Puritan authors like Arthur W. Pink, Charles H. Spurgeon and others. Most of the works he brought back into print are still available today from Sovereign Grace Publishers. Sovereign Grace Publishers went on to become one of the largest Christian book publishers and distributors of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, S.G.P. was operated as a ministry first and a business second.