Missions category: 1022 books
Doctor Number 49
Grace Warren of The Leprosy Mission
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This is an inspiring autobiography of Australian missionary doctor Grace Warren. By her inventive surgical skills, faith, preparedness to obey God, and her tireless willingness to travel and teach, Grace has saved the feet and transformed the lives of thousands suffering with diabetes and leprosy.
Behind the Veils of Yemen
How an American Woman Risked Her Life, Family, and Faith to Bring Jesus to Muslim Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An Insider's Compelling View of Life in a Muslim Country
When Audra Grace Shelby and her husband felt God calling them to minister in the Middle East, she was fearful--how would she raise her children in the heart of conservative Islam?
Armed with prayers and a faith that always seemed...
Paul the Traveller
Saint Paul and his World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The life of the first-century man born Saul of Tarsus, who went on to become Paul the Apostle, by the acclaimed historian and author of Thermopylae.
Paul, born into Asia Minor’s Jewish aristocracy and a passionate student of scripture, was part of the crowd that killed Stephen, a deacon regarded...
The Prison Angel
Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually...
Miracle on Voodoo Mountain
A Young Woman's Remarkable Story of Pushing Back the Darkness for the Children of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti."
Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job,...
by Andrew Bonar
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
An inspirational classic of the young pastor who shook Scotland. In 1843 his friend the Rev. Andrew Bonar writes this touching portrait of McCheyne, a man of God who died when he was only 29 years of age. His commitment to Jesus, his compassion for souls and his passion for revival continues to make...
by Brother Andrew, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A True-Life Thriller That Will Leave
You Breathless!
In the anniversary edition of this electrifying real-life story, readers are gripped from the first page by the harrowing account of a young man who risked his life to smuggle Bibles through the borders of closed nations. Now, sixty years...
by Amy Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) served in India for over 50 years and is well-known for her work rescuing children from temple prostitution as well as her inspirational missionary writings. This excellent collection contains 7 of her most well-known and beloved writings. All have been spell-checked...
by Sulpicius Severus
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
More popular during the Middle Ages was Severus's Life of St. Martin, as were also the dialogues and letters which relate to the same subject. These works did much to establish the great reputation which that wonder-working saint maintained throughout the Middle Ages. The book is not properly a biography,...
Accessing Alcuin
A Master Bibliography for 'Alcuin: His Life and Legacy' and 'Alcuin: Theology and Thought'
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Accessing Alcuin enables an excellent multi-disciplinary appreciation of the scholar and theologian, Alcuin, through the manuscript collections and scholarship of medieval history and culture, European Church history and theology. Douglas Dales has provided an authoritative bibliography that comprehensively...
by Kim L. Abernethy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In 1985 Kim Abernethy, along with her husband, Jeff, followed a call from God to minister in the small West African country of Liberia.She writes of the fall of one of her daughters from a two-story building, shares candid emotions from when her husband had a close call with Lassa Fever, and delightfully...
Broken Stick
Mission to the Forbidden Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Norman wasn’t afraid to die, and he wasn’t afraid to live, either. In 1927, fully aware of the dangers awaiting them, he and his wife, Ruby, sailed to the Solomon Islands only a year and a half after their marriage. Daunting trials and challenges would follow, but so would profound spiritual victories and miraculous answers to prayer
Making Friends among the Taliban
A Peacemaker's Journey in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In a remote valley north of Kabul in August 2010, American peacemaker Dan Terry and nine other aid workers were attacked and killed in an event that made worldwide headlines. Why would one man take his family, follow faith and calling into the political and religious maelstrom of Afghanistan, andthrough...
C.T. Studd
Cricketer and Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Nurtured in the lap of comfort, educated at Eton and Cambridge, the hero of the British sport-loving public, C. T. Studd, whose Cambridge career has been described as "one long blaze of cricketing glory", created a stir in the secular world of his youth by renouncing wealth and position...