Missions category: 1022 books
Business as Mission
A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Business as mission (BAM) is a mission strategy whose time has come. As global economics become increasingly interconnected, Christian business people and entrepreneurs have unanticipated opportunities to build kingdom-strategic business ventures. But Christian companies and business leaders do not...
What Can I Do?
Making a Global Difference Right Where You Are
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
While “missions” used to be the territory of experts and missionary professionals, globalization has made the issues and needs of our world accessible to average Americans. Many American Christians feel overwhelmed by the scope of the brokenness in the world and conclude all they can do is go...
I'm Just an Illinois Farm Boy
My Missionary Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
- How will we pay the bills if I quit my job? - Who will take care of our aging parents? - When will we see our children again? - To what remote part of the world will we be sent? These were a few of Gary’s many questions of God when He called him to foreign missions...
From Dependence to Dignity
How to Alleviate Poverty through Church-Centered Microfinance
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The church of Jesus Christ finds itself at a very unique moment in history. The average Christian living in the “economically advanced countries” enjoys a level of prosperity that has been unimaginable for most of human history. At the same time, over 2.5 billion people in the Majority World...
Missional Transformation: God’S Spirit at Work
Essays Celebrating the Outreach Ministry of Dr. Eugene Bunkowske
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Missiologists and mission-oriented folks have been invited to reflect on topics that touch on the transforming power of Gods Spirit. This series of essays has been produced as one way of celebrating the fascinating, missional career of Dr. Eugene Bunkowske, long-time missionary to Africa, long-time...
A Novel Approach
The Significance of Story in Interpreting and Communicating Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
True reality exists, despite every culture distorting it. All people arrive at some biased view of reality via the story in which and by which they live. Unfortunately the ultimate story of reality as revealed in the Bible is too often presented before the would-be evangelist is adequately aware of...
by Jonathan Leeman, Christopher J. H. Wright, John R. Franke
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book articulates various evangelical views regarding the church's mission and provides a healthy, vigorous, and gracious debate on this controversial topic. In a helpful Counterpoints format, this volume demonstrates the unique theological frameworks, doctrinal convictions, and missiological...
Finish the Mission
Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
This is no ordinary missions book. The theme isn't new, but the approach is refreshing and compelling, as contributors David Platt, Louie Giglio, Michael Ramsden, Ed Stetzer, Michael Oh, David Mathis, and John Piper take up the mantle of the Great Commission and its Spirit-powered completion.
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by Rob Parker
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Jesus had a financial partnership team. Paul had a financial partnership team. God has a financial partnership team for every missionary, including you! Should the difficulties of raising financial support keep God's workers out of the harvest fields? It has, and the result is that the mission field...
Akbar and the Jesuits
An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First published in 1926.
'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement
'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The Guardian
The Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find their way into the Mogul empire in the sixteenth century. Spending...
by Katy Brink
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Living abroad, feeling at home.Sometimes God takes us on unexpected journeys. In Clotheslines and Callings, Katy tucks us in her luggage and allows us to walk alongside her family as they follow God's unexpected call to set up life in Madrid, Spain. Wanting to present the real joys and struggles...
Our Global Families
Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
As Christians, we belong to not only a diverse global Christian family but also a diverse human family. Todd Johnson, a noted expert on global Christianity and world missions trends, and Cindy Wu show how divisions within these families work against our desire to bring about positive change in the...
by A. D. Asimi
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Created by foreign Missions during the British Raj, the small Christian community in the Pakistan area has existed for nearly one hundred and fifty years. Due to its low socio-economic and elemental religious background, it has always suffered from an image problem. Under the British Raj, the security...
Engaging the World
Christian Communities in Contemporary Global Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This volume deals with the lived experiences and expressions of Christians in diverse communities across the globe. Christian communities do not live in a vacuum but in complex, diverse social-cultural contexts; within wider communities of different faith and social realities. Power, identity and...