Greetings Seanie, German-language Bibles are also easy to obtain within the United States, in fact we've been acquiring them by the dozens just for our small group alone. (The United States has an enormous ethnic German community after all-- about 80 million, second only to Germany itself.)
Depending on where you live, there are German-language bookstores all over the country. German is an active first language (both popular and official) in much of the country, and so if you're in some of the more heavily German-American parts of the country-- mostly in the Midwest (Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Minnesota and Iowa) there are German-language bookshops that sell German-language Bibles for a just a few dollars a pop. I'd say that anywhere with a large Mennonite (or Amish, in Pennsylvania) community would be one obvious source-- a member of our group ordered German Bibles in bulk from a Mennonite bookshop in Wisconsin, and a Canadian associate of ours did the same from some Mennonites in Saskatchewan in Canada. Cities with names like "Hanover" or "Neu Braunfels" (in Texas) tend to be good places to find such book vendors.
If you're outside these German-American regions, there are still plenty of German-language bookshops on the coasts and in Illinois. Here's one list:
german.about.com/library/blbook01.htm
One of our Canadian-American church members has shopped at two of these (and is actually relocating to Germany with his wife and 2 kids next year), and he confirmed that they do sell German Bibles.
Here's a small state-by-state list with a few listings:
germancorner.com/yellowpages/bookstores/index.html
Another list of vendors:
wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Bookstores_GSW
Obviously, these are just the tip of iceberg since the vast majority of such bookshops don't have online listings.
My group has been involved in the Great Reawakening movement (which means that the Canadians/Aussies/Americans in our group are actually moving to Germany-- not just to evangelize, but living there permanently and raising our kids there). As a result, we've bought both "home Bibles" and "pew Bibles" in German (differences in the glosses and commentaries for example). Also, many of us have also been heavily involved in converting the Albanian, Turkish, Iranian, Bosnian and Kurdish Muslim communities in Germany to our faith (with many of them bringing their own brethren in their original countries to the Gospel), and for that kind of objective, German Bibles with more specialized commentaries and discussions (often particular to their specific background) have been quite helpful. All of these different versions of the German Bible have been available, even from North American vendors.
Good luck and God Bless you in your efforts-- hope this is helpful!
