Missions category: 1022 books
Cross-Cultural Partnerships
Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
One of the biggest challenges in global mission work is money-not merely the need for it, but working through cross-cultural differences surrounding how funds are used and accounted for. Cross-cultural missteps regarding financial issues can derail partnerships between supporting churches and agencies...
Steel Angels
The personal qualities of a priest
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The nine criteria the Church of England uses to discern potential vocations to the priesthood are explored, and linked with personal qualities that are necessary for new, but also existing, leaders in a church and culture which has changed much over the last 50 years. The nine criteria are: • Vocation...
Developing in Ministry
Handbook for effective Christian learning and training
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book describes how, in adopting an organic approach to ministry development, it is possible to make a real impact on people's lives and ministries; this approach is based on the organics model proposed by James Hopewell. Backed by thorough research, and wide reading in the literature, this book...
The Sending Church
The Church Must Leave the Building
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
When crowds refused to disperse at Elvis Presley concerts in hopes of another encore from the king of rock and roll, the announcement that “Elvis has left the building” had to be made. Pastor Pat Hood recalls from childhood one such performance that came to his hometown, and with his new book...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This volume provides an important resource for those wishing to gain an overview of significant issues in contemporary missiology whilst understanding how they are applied in particular contexts. Contributors from across the globe and from different Christian traditions explore foundations for mission....
Seen
Hope Prevails
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
What if?
What if there is truly work prepared by God in advance for you to do? What if, by living intentionally outside of yourself, you could be used to bring hope and transformation to another person? What would you do?
Seen: Hope Prevails is a story that chronicles the transformative...
Mission Continues
Global Impulses for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In May 2009, 35 theologians from Asia, Africa and Europe met in Wuppertal, Germany, for a consultation on mission theology organized by the United Evangelical Mission: Communion of 35 Churches in Three Continents. The aim was to participate in the 100th anniversary of the Edinburgh conference through...
by Dr. Jone Senibici
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Historians claimed that the early Fijians adopted cannibalism from their long voyage at sea. The lack of adequate nutrition forced these sailors to consume the dead in order to survive. When they landed in Fiji, this practice of anthropophagy/cannibalism became part of the Fijian diet.
A WARNING...
Making New Disciples
Exploring the Paradoxes of Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Ten years on from their first book, Evangelism: Which way now? which has become a valuable and much recommended resource, Mark Ireland and Mike Booker aim to take people a step further. Making New Disciples offers a practical approach, based on careful theological reflection and years of hands-on...
by Brian Mast
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
We all want to be loved
Let’s pause for a minute and answer this question: “What is love?”
Some call it a feeling, an emotion, and even a choice. Others call it romantic, selfish, or temporary. Some claim it to be spiritual, selfless, and permanent....
by Saheb Borgall
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The book studies the emergence of Christ Groups against the background of western individualistic approaches in the Indian relational context. These small worship groups were formed and grew as the conversion of families began as a result of the literature distribution that was meant to reach the...
Urban Christian Spirituality
East Asian and Nordic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book explores some of the challenges presented to church and mission from the contemporary culture of globalization and how this affects Christian spirituality in various ways. The attention is primarily focused on contemporary East Asian urban life, but from the assumption that this may not...
An Ecclesiological Exploration of the Four Marks of the Church
An Eccumenical Option for the Church in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The vibrancy of faith and the fast growth of different churches in Nigeria seem to obscure the reality of some precarious historical challenges that call for crucial and genuine ecclesiological inquiry. The Nigerian Church’s unique history loaded with various facets of indoctrination and the peculiarities...
Shaping of Christianity in Greater China
Indigenous Christians in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book is an integrated collection of essays looking at the shaping of Christianity in China with a special emphasis on the contributions of Chinese believers. As well as its geographical scope of the China Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, the material covers a span of time from the end of the...