Missions category: 1022 books
12:7 Serve
Global Youth Serving in Mission
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
When twelve students from nine countries banded together for mission work in Mesoamerica, no one was quite sure what to expect. When their initial service did not go as smoothly as they hoped, the team learned that before they could serve others, they needed to be able to serve one another.Spy on the...
Transforming Ventures
A Spiritual Guide for Volunteers in Mission
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Trends reveal that more and more people are using vacation time to experience new things or to help others. This book will help you consider how you can use your free time toward discipleship. Whether you go with a construction team, a traveling choir, or as an individual volunteer missionary abroad,...
Child, Church and Compassion
Towards Child Theology in Romania
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Bill Prevett comments that ̈children are like ‘canaries in a mine shaft’; they provide a focal point for discovery and encounter of perilous aspects of our world that are often ignored. ̈ True, but miners also carried a lamp to see into the subterranean darkness. This book is such a lamp. It lights up the subterranean world of children and youth in danger of exploitation.
Christianity and Cultures
Shaping Christian Thinking in Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This volume marks an important milestone, the 25th anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS). The papers here have been exclusively sourced from Transformation, a quarterly journal of OCMS, and seek to provide a tripartite view of Christianity’s engagement with cultures by focusing...
Lay People in the Asian Church
A Critical Study of the Theology of the Laity in the Documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences with Special Reference to John Paul IIs Apostolic Exhortation «Ecclesia in Asia» and the Pastoral Letters of the Vietnamese Episcopal Conf
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book investigates the role of the laity in the Asian Church. Lay people have three responsibilities: proclaiming the Gospel, be a witness of life, and the triple dialogue with the cultures, the religions, and the poor. Focusing on the triple dialogue, the bishops of Asia have offered fresh ideas...
SUNSHINE IN PARIS
The city of great joy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
From Paris to Paradise. As long as the sun shines in Paris there will be stories to be told of love life and faith. A compilation of short stories that affects our daily life's. Thank you for purchasing Sunshine in Paris.
by IZU OBIEKWE
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Why we are known as a church is as a result of the sacrifice of certain men and women who out of their love for God had to shed their blood on the sand of Africa. They left their loved ones, comfortable environments and willingly came and gave their lives that we may see the light of the gospel. They...
by Paul D. Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The most important event of my life occurred during July, 1969, when as an atheist I had an abrupt and totally unexpected encounter with the living God of the universe. Believing, I was thus born again from spiritual death and became by God's grace a 'new creation.' Since then, I have been involved...
by CLAUDE HICKMAN
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Almost all the direction you have been given to discover your calling in life is backward.
You don't make a reliable guide for yourself so why start with yourself to find your purpose? To live for the things that will last forever, start with someone who is everlasting and then discover how to live life backward.
Reaching Muslims
A one-stop guide for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
A fascinating introduction covering demography, theology, culture, politics, justice, and other aspects of Islamic identity. It is well illustrated with stories and examples. Nick considers what reasons a Muslim might have for thinking that Jesus is good news. What does the Qur'an say about Jesus?...
Diakonia as Christian Social Practice
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The concept of diakonia has developed over the last decades, especially within the ecumenical movement, to a degree that may be characterized as a paradigm shift. Three main features characterize this change: First, the ecclesial dimension of diakonia is now strongly underlined. While diakonia earlier...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Orthodox Perspectives on Mission is both a humble tribute to some great Orthodox theologians, who in the past have provided substantial contribution to contemporary missiological and ecumenical discussions, and an Orthodox input to the upcoming 2013 Busan WCC General Assembly. There is a long history...
by Beverly Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
A girl named Sarah was going to the library to get a book, but before she went to the library she had a goal of what she wanted to do it was to be a missionary. She went to the library and found a book that looked interesting, but the library didn't want her to get that book, because something bad...
For Whose Sake I Have Lost All Things
A Family's Story of Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
What does it mean to surrender everything for the kingdom of God? Throughout their familys story, their call to ministry, and their missionary work with the Church of the Nazarene in West Africa, Mark and Linda Louw have been challenged to count their accomplishments, identities, and very lives as loss...