Missions category: 1022 books
Toxic Charity
How the Church Hurts Those They Help and How to Reverse It
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help—not sabotage—those whom they desire to serve. Lupton, the founder of...
Underground Church
A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
What If the Church Truly Empowered People to Engage in God's Mission?
Something extraordinary has been happening in Tampa, Florida. A new expression of the church has been quietly growing. It's something of an experiment, but over the last ten years the church has been validating its ideas...
Transforming Microfinance
A Christian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A unique book which chronicles the revealing ‘story' of microfinance, captures the rich diversity of the industry and explores the invaluable contribution of the Christian faith to this vibrant and fast-growing multi-billion dollar global business.
Serving God Globally
Finding Your Place in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Dominating the daily news cycle today are the grim realities of grinding poverty, sex trafficking, gender discrimination, child soldiering, HIV/AIDS, failed states, corruption, and environmental breakdown. In the midst of such pain and brokenness, the followers of Christ cannot stand idly by, for...
Seeking Urban Shalom
Integral Urban Mission in a New Urban World
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
With slums on the rise, where would Jesus be found today if not alongside activists standing in the gap for the most marginalized and vulnerable people on the planet? With a foreword by Tony Campolo, Seeking Urban Shalom offers the best of the 2012 International Society of Urban Mission (ISUM) Summit...
Towards Global Missional Leadership
A Journey Through Leadership Paradigm Shift in the Mission of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The depth and complexity of interconnected global issues facing church and mission leadership today cannot be ignored. Leaders within global church and mission movements are challenged to respond to effects of globalization and other factors upon the mission of God. Rather than modifying existing...
Leading Across Cultures
Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
The worldwide church is more interconnected than ever before, with missionaries going from everywhere to everywhere. Africans work with Australians in India. Koreans plant churches in London and Los Angeles. But globalization also creates challenges for crosscultural tension and misunderstandings,...
by Evaristo Filho
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2016
A série “Ministérios da Igreja” é formada por sete (07) livros que visam fomentar os princípios e práticas bíblicas essenciais para o exercício do ministério cristão na igreja e para o benefício do mundo. A Bíblia ensina que existe uma há diversidade de serviços (ministérios) que...
by Evaristo Filho
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 30, 2016
A série “Ministérios da Igreja” é formada por sete (07) livros que visam fomentar os princípios e práticas bíblicas essenciais para o exercício do ministério cristão na igreja e para o benefício do mundo. A Bíblia ensina que existe uma há diversidade de serviços (ministérios) que...
by K.P. Yohannan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Do you find yourself conforming to the culture rather than transforming it? Do you ever ask yourself, Is this what Christ meant by "Follow Me"? In this prophetic yet highly practical book, K.P. Yohannan will help you escape from the mold of plastic Christianity and find the road back to authentic New Testament Christian living with simplicity and purpose.
For the Least of These
A Biblical Answer to Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Today, many thoughtful and compassionate Christians are addressing the challenge of alleviating poverty. But while much progress has been made, many well-intentioned efforts have led Christians to actions that are not only ineffective, but leave the most vulnerable in a worse situation than before....
Change the World
Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Clearly, something is not working. Despite the church’s place of prominence in American culture and the ubiquity of the church in every American town, misconceptions about the faith of Jesus Christ run rampant today. Christians are known more for exclusivity than for love, more for pot lucks than...
Operation World
The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Operation World,
All the countries of the world featured
Maps of each country
Geographic information
People groups within each country
Economic information
Political information
Religious make-up of each country
Daily Prayer Calendar
Answers to prayer
Challenges for prayer
Operation World**Note:...
Helen Roseveare
Though Lions Roar
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Missionary Doctor to the Congo Dr. Helen Roseveare was serving the Lord at an isolated hospital in the jungles of the Belgian Congo, preaching, teaching and doctoring. In 1960 the colony became an independent nation: Zaire. But four years later, the Simba rebellion threw the country into anarchy. Rebels...