Missions category: 1022 books
by Bumstead, Elaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Elaine Bumstead pulls back the curtain on the many ways Bangladeshi Christians are persecuted for their faith. She shares the stories of Bangladeshi children who must come to their own faith as they struggle to understand why their parents willingly suffer for the sake of Christ. Their testimonies paint...
by Helen Vanstone
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Helen Vanstone worked in Uganda for eight years as a voluntary head teacher at a Christian school. Earlier in her career in UK primary school education, she had faced a number of setbacks, including a poor Ofsted report, depression and bereavement. However, the opportunity in Africa turned her life...
by Alan Kreider, Eleanor Kreider
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Today, as Christendom weakens, worship and mission are poised to reunite after centuries of separation. But this requires the church to rethink both mission and worship. In post-Christendom mission, God is the main actor and God calls all Christians to participate. In post-Christendom worship, the...
Neighbors and Missionaries
A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine community was founded in 1910 by marion gurney, who adopted the religious name Mother Marianne of Jesus. A graduate of Wellesley College and a convert to Catholicism,
Gurney had served as head resident at St. Rose’s Settlement, the first Catholic settlement...
by Eunice Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
“Wilderness Journey is a candid look at what it means to sacrifice, yield and completely surrender to the Will of God. At the conclusion of the whole matter, you will ask yourself, “Have I truly counted up the cost for the journey’s sake?” —Evangelist Wanda R. Scott, Beloved Daughter, Fellow...
Facilitate
How to Lead a Life-giving Small Group
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Facilitate highlights the key dynamics of small groups that will give a leader confidence to minister to those in the group. Facilitate teaches a leader how to listen well, ask questions, train others, involve people, and prepare for the meeting. This book shows a potential leader how to develop new...
Dangerous Prayer
Discovering a Missional Spirituality in the Lord's Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Dangerous Prayer offers a strategy for fostering prayer and spirituality in mission that focuses on neighbourhood transformation and global needs using the Lord's Prayer as a radical blueprint.
Sustainability in mission is not possible without prayer; vibrancy in prayer is not possible without...
Out of the Jungle
A True Story of a Young Mennonite Boy in the Paraguayan Chaco
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
This unique story is filled with delightful tales of growing up in a tropical Mennonite colony. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll gasp in horror as you follow Peter through his adventures in the Paraguayan Chaco. You’ll wonder how he survived being run over by a horse, nearly drowning,...
by John Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
It's sometimes difficult for those of us steeped in the comforts and ease of today’s modern world to grasp what a life of radical faith can look like. What was ministry like for missionaries living a hundred years ago? What happened "back in the day" when brave missionary pioneers forsook...
War and Occupation in China
The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military occupation seen against...
by Cheri Cowell
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Is there someone God has laid on your heart that you’ve been unable to reach with traditional methods? When sharing the gospel with your children, grandchildren, coworkers, and neighbors, does it feel like you are walking in a foreign land? If you said, yes, you have found your guide.
In...
Mission as Accompaniment
A Response to Mechanistic Dehumanization
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Mechanistic dehumanization occurs when human beings are objectified and exploited as a means to an end, comparable to expendable components of a machine. This misconstruction of human value is a source and sustainer of overproduction, an excess of consumption, and the pursuit of unrestrained economic...
Global Church Planting
Biblical Principles and Best Practices for Multiplication
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
With nearly fifty years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson are well qualified to write a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for cross-cultural church planting. Combining substantive biblical principles and missiological understanding with practical insights, this book...
by Nikki A. Toyama-Szeto, Femi B. Adeleye
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
In our globally interconnected world, mission depends on healthy partnerships across the globe. Many talk about wanting to partner with the Global South, but we're not always sure what that looks like on the ground. Too often North Americans have acted as if we don't need others to do what we think...