Missions category: 1022 books
by John Algate
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
'My clinic now has a new Dani name, the house of needles. Quite appropriate don't you think?' Jessie wrote to her hundreds of supporters back home.
Jessie Williamson was a courageous missionary nurse who devoted 35 years of her life to tribal people in the remote and dangerous highlands of...
Borrowed Trousers
Diary of a Mormon Missionary, Volume II of In Polygamy's Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
A JOURNAL, KEPT SECRET Borrowed Trousers, Diary of a Mormon Missionary draws the reader into the thoughts and feelings of a cowboy from Alberta serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas and Louisiana, from 1937 to 1939. He suffers hardship and sickness, and falls...
Mountain Majesty
A History of CODEP Haiti Where Sustainable Agricultural Development Works Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
What makes...an organization successful? A leader effective? A community thrive? Especially in impoverished, disaster-prone Haiti? Mountain Majesty: The History of CODEP Haiti Where Sustainable Agricultural Development Works, Volume 2 reveals the inner workings and complexities of this remarkable...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador during
October 2016. The first was the Gospel and the Future of Cities Summit at which a
contingent of Kingdom focused urban leaders gathered to explore what the gospel has to
say to the development of cities globally....
Azusa Street
How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book was originally published under the title "How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles."
Frank Bartleman was an eyewitness in the Azusa Street revival at the turn of the twentieth century. This is his most popular book, initially titled "How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles",...
by Jimmy Seibert
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
When a group of people commits to intentionally listening to God and radically obeying His word, it's no surprise that an incredible story unfolds. Now, in the book PASSION & PURPOSE: Believing the Church Can Still Change the World (Clear Day Publishing), Jimmy Seibert, Senior Pastor of Antioch...
Jesus, the Only Way to God
Must You Hear the Gospel to be Saved?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
If the evangelical church at large was ever too confrontational in its evangelism, those days are gone. In our shrinking, pluralistic world, the belief that Jesus is the only way of salvation is increasingly called arrogant and even hateful. In the face of this criticism, many shrink back from affirming...
Cross-Cultural Servanthood
Serving the World in Christlike Humility
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us." The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately,...
by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Worship gives us a glimpse of the majesty and grandeur of God. But that's not all. It also paints a picture of God's purposes for the world. He is in the process of gathering together a multitude of worshipers from every language and nation. Urbana worship director Sandra Van Opstal shows that worship...
by Bethany H. Hoang
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
The challenges of global injustice can be overwhelming. The pain is real; the violence dark. Many well-intentioned Christians get burned out. What can you do to stay in the game? Bethany Hoang, director of International Justice Mission's IJM Institute, has seen firsthand how spiritual formation can...
Overrated
Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"It can be fashionable to talk about the poor but not as fashionable to talk to the poor. It may be popular to talk about justice and still not know any victims of injustice. But we will never make poverty history until we make poverty personal. Eugene Cho shatters all our hipster coffee-shop...
by Karen Stiller & Willard Metzger
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Going Missional tells the story of 13 diverse Canadian churches and their journey to become missional. With journalistic insight and candor, this unique book shares the challenges, successes, the setbacks and victories of these churches and their leaders from across Canada as they attempt to more fully...
by Alan Robert Pence
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Something Went Wrong? / Right! Real Studies of Leadership in Cross-Cultural Ministry consists of 37 brief stories that originate from the cross-cultural development and leadership work of linguistic experts Alan Robert Pence and his wife, Patricia. After each story, discussion sections feature leadership...
by A.J. DeJonge
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
What if healthy exponential growth required you to maintain less control over your ministry rather than more? That was the dilemma the Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) ministry at Sydney University faced. The ministry wasn't growing under staff control, so why not hand the reigns over to the students...