Missions category: 1022 books
Teatime in Mogadishu
My Journey as a Peace Ambassador in the World of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
In 1991, Ahmed Ali Haile returned to the chaos of his native Somalia with a clear mission: to bring warring clans together to find new paths of peace--often over a cup of tea. A grenade thrown by a detractor cost Haile his leg and almost his life, but his stature as a peacemaker remained.Whether in Somali's...
Un protagonista tra gli eredi del celeste impero
Celso Costantini delegato apostolico in Cina (1922-1933) Prefazione del card. Pietro Parolin. Presentazioni di mons. Savio Hon Tai Fai, mons. Giuseppe Pellegrini, fr. John Chia Khee Long
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Celso Costantini, primo delegato apostolico in Cina, compì un’impresa mai riuscita prima: impiantare la Chiesa tra gli eredi del Celeste Impero. Il libro, frutto della consultazione degli archivi della Santa Sede, offre un inedito spaccato storico sul ruolo fondamentale svolto in Oriente dal futuro...
by Erik Black
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
I lived for two years in a dusty village near the coast of Kenya, East Africa. I went with some thought of bringing change to the Duruma people, but in the end I was changed as much or more than anyone else. Each chapter of "The Trees Were Spinning" tells a short story or two from my time...
by Nicole Oliver Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A youth mission prayer journal for personal reflection, group development, and a guide to doing justice.
Intercultural Theology
Intercultural Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
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They Shall See His Face
The Story of Amy Oxley Wilkinson and Her Visionary Blind School in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Amy Oxley Wilkinson was arguably the most widely known female Australian missionary in China and the West in the early 20th century. She was the great granddaughter of colonial chaplain Samuel Marsden and granddaughter of celebrated explorer John Oxley. After rescuing an abandoned blind boy, she founded...
Impossible is a Dare
Fighting for a world free from slavery
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Ben Cooley was just 26 years old when he booked Birmingham’s NEC Arena. He didn’t have the first idea about putting on a major event. He didn’t have a strategy, he didn’t have the funds. But he did a have vision; a vision to live in a world free from slavery. This is a story of passion turned...
Teaching Across Cultures
Contextualizing Education for Global Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In our globalized world, educators often struggle to adapt to the contexts of diverse learners. In this practical resource, educator and missiologist James Plueddemann offers field-tested insights for teaching across cultural differences. He unpacks how different cultural dynamics may inhibit learning and offers a framework for integrating conceptual ideas into practical experience.
by Tim Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Reflecting on the first eighteen months of Pioneer Ministry in a commuter suburb of Telford, Tim found the book of Jonah to be a rich mine of raw materials. In Being Sent we are invited to join Tim in pondering Jonah’s mission, in order that we might better understand God's heart for mission and so hear our own call more clearly and respond to it more obediently.
by Zacharias Tanee Fomum
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The messages in this book, were given to brethren from all over Cameroon in Yaoundé at a critical point in the work. There was a real increase in numbers of those who were turning away from their sins and becoming new creatures in Christ. Many young people were beginning to receive ministry gifts...
Across the Street and Around the World
Following Jesus to the Nations in Your Neighborhood…and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Could God use ordinary me to change the world?
In the middle of diapers, dishes, papers, or presentations, deep down, we long to live a life of purpose, with a bit of adventure. But if we do something, we think we have to do everything—and do it in Africa. In Across the Street and Around...
Leadership in a Slum
A Bangkok Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
n Leadership in a Slum Johnson looks at leadership in the Thai social context from a different angle than traditional studies which measure well educated Thais on leadership scales derived in the West. Seeking a cultural account of social influence processes he turns to those who have been left...
Conversionary Sites
Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine. Based on immersive...
The Practice of Mission in Egypt
A Historical Study of the Integration between the American Mission and the Evangelical Church of Egypt, 1854–1970
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Most mission studies have focused on the work of Western missionaries going to Majority World countries, with few examining indigenous churches and their relationship with Western mission agencies in practicing mission. This book is a historical study of the relationship between the Evangelical Church...