Missions category: 1022 books

Fourteen-year-old Lizzy Gardner was shocked when her father announced he would be going on a mission trip to Papua New Guinea--and taking her with him! Little did she know, her life would never be the same. During the six-and-a-half-week trip, Lizzy not only made great friendships and experienced...

In this autobiographical account, Jake and Ruth Schierling, from Van Nuys, California, take their young family to live among the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone, Africa. Through building both physical bridges and bridges of friendship, they fell in love with the people and their culture. Through many...

In 2010, nearly 30 percent of South Koreans—a country with a Confucian tradition over 1000 years old—identify as Christian, the largest percentage of Christians in an Asian nation, aside from the Philippines. Korea also boasts of having the largest church in the world; it also has the largest...

This book is for people trying to make sense of their childhood faith. For people who know what it means to be thrust out of a sheltered childhood into the broader world. For people who long for a life of adventure. The author invites you to venture with him as he "spreads his wings."...

Go, Ye! : Help for Mission Minded People  is a personal account of Blake Mullins's  missionary journeys to Africa.  This book is filled with encouraging stories  and practicle advice to help those  who are willing to go. Go ye into all the world,  and preach the gospel  to every...

Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided...

This story takes place in Gros-Morne, Haiti. The main plot focuses on the Zamor family and the persecution they endured from the voodoo community. It demonstrates God’s provision and protection for their family. The story also relates the experiences of a youth missions trip to Haiti with a different...

The contribution of monks to the evangelization of lands not yet reached by the preaching of the Gospel has certainly been remarkable. The specific witness that the monastic community gives is of a radical Christian life naturally radiating outward, and thus it is implicitly missionary. The process...

Strategic partnerships are on the rise around the world as denominations, organizations, local churches and individuals seek ways to work together to accomplish the Great Commission. In this book Dr Kenneth Shreve presents research from a creative access region, identifying five theological issues...

Maps are about more than finding your way through geographical obstacles and terrains. StudyMaps is a new way of looking at both faith and Scripture, and of engaging and strengthening the memory to prompt us to evangelism, discipleship, and maturity. Stéphane Tibi takes the reader on a journey...

This book is about J. Waskom Pickett and Missions in the Twolight of the Raj and Dawn of the Nationhood of India

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a crosscultural book. Scripture is full of narratives of God's people crossing cultures in pursuit of God's mission. Biblical texts shed light on mission dynamics: Sarah and Hagar functioning in an honor-shame culture, Moses as a multicultural leader, Ruth...

This book is based on true Nazarene missions work in the Navajo Nation. It includes factual information about some places and the culture of the Navajo people. While information about tentmaker missionaries is true, the Elvin and Yazzie families and the plot about Alfred and the stolen cross have been added and fictionalized to make the story more readable for children.

This book is intended to honor Rev. Everett and Rev. Evelyn McKinney, who have served as Assemblies of God missionaries for 50 years, mainly in the Asia Pacific region, but also in Pacific Oceana and Europe. Because most of their career has been involved in training workers in Bible schools and seminaries,...