Missions category: 1022 books
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories
Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher...
American Evangelicals in Egypt
Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American...
by Betty Macindoe
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The incredible, faith-inspiring story of a waitress from the slums of London's East end who became a pioneer missionary in Portuguese Guinea, now Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.Bessie Brierley attended missionary meetings conducted by Norman P. Grubb. "Mr. Grubb," she asked in a bold Cockney...
The Call to Evangelise
Founded on loving intimacy with the Lord
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Are you prepared to evangelise, to communicate the gospel to others? Amid the numerous urgent calls today to do so, many may find themselves spiritually bankrupt, unable to ‘move towards others’ with a genuine experience of God’s forgiveness, mercy and joy. This eBook's proposal for true intimacy...
Jesus and the Resurrection
Reflections of Christians from Islamic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The idea of a trilogy containing reflections by Christians living in Islamic contexts was born in 2004. The first volume on Jesus and the Cross appeared in 2009. The second volume, Jesus and the Incarnation, was published in 2011. The third volume here is concerned with the theme of resurrection....
Adventures in Fishing for Men
A Humorous Satire of Christian Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Does evangelism and witnessing make you uncomfortable? If so, you’re about to be set free … or maybe you’ll become even more uncomfortable.
Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing for Men as an allegorical story about a man’s quest to become a world-famous...
What on Earth is the Church For?
A Blueprint for the Future for Church Based Mission & Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A radical approach to church mission and social action that asks, 'If mission is not the central purpose of the church, then what is?'
David Devenish believes that the church exists as a means of taking the gospel message to every people group. He believes that the church is very much at the...
by Matthew Caminer
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Women now comprise almost half the priests serving in the Church of England. As a result, there are many male clergy spouses who have had to come to terms with the seismic shift that occurs in family life when a wife embarks on the journey from exploration of vocation - through selection, training...
Searching for Heaven in the Real World
A Sociological Discussion of Conversion in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
While adjusting to a new identity is akin to adjusting to a new set of skin, even more difficult is realising that this new skin may not be as comfortable or as pleasant as the old one. In Searching for Heaven in the Real World, Kathryn Kraft explores the breadth of psychological and societal issues...
Dynamics of Muslim Worlds
Regional, Theological, and Missiological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Dynamics of Muslim Worlds
A New History of African Christian Thought
From Cape to Cairo
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
David Tonghou Ngong offers a comprehensive view of African Christian thought that includes North Africa in antiquity as well as Sub-Saharan Africa from the period of colonial missionary activity to the present. Challenging conventional colonial divisions of Africa, A New History of African Christian...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A Century of Catholic Mission surveys the complex and rich history and theology of Roman Catholic Mission in the one hundred years since the 1910 Edinburgh World Mission Conference. Essays written by an international team of Catholic mission scholars focus on Catholic Mission in every region of the...
Context and Contextuality
The Mission of Migrant Churches with a Focus on the Pacific Coast Slavic Baptist Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Since 1988, hundreds of thousands of evangelical Christians have migrated to the United States of America from former Soviet Union countries, establishing many Russian-speaking immigrant congregations across the country. This study analyzes how these immigrant churches function in their new cultural,...
The Maturing Church
An Integrated Approach to Contextualization, Discipleship and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
For a church to be considered mature an integrated approach between contextualization, discipleship and mission is required. Globally, the church is facing multiple challenges both rom within and from without. Despite the challenges, however, churches in the Majority World continue to grow rapidly....