Missions category: 1022 books
Growing Up Yanomamö Today
By Faith, Not by Sight
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Following in his parents’ footsteps, Mike Dawson continues missionary work in the jungles of Venezuela despite the hardships presented under a socialistic dictator.
Dawson’s love for the Yanomamö people is clearly seen through the many stories in this sequel to Growing Up Yanomamö....
by Kim Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Everyone arrived at the shore dressed for the celebration. The boat and motor had been purchased and today was the dedication. The sun was hot and many used umbrellas for shade. The boat had been given two names: Pastor Blas and Rev. Anadeis were written on each side. These two pastors were the first...
China Interrupted
Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
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"The End of the World has Come": Pudong Camp (1943-1945)
Sonia Grypma
Explores how two years of increasing privation and danger in a condemned tobacco warehouse in Pudong with 1200 other internees confined Betty Gale’s personal sense of mission to ever-constricting social...
by Foss Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Nine-year-old Eva wants to go home. Eva is a biracial girl who feels trapped at Faith Academy, a boarding school in Ivory Coast whose students are mainly white American children of evangelical missionaries. When her imagined superhero powers fail to help her to fly home to her family, Eva decides...
The Church on Mission
A Biblical Vision for Transformation among All People
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
In this scripturally rich exploration, senior missiologist Craig Ott unpacks the mission statement of the church: to glorify God by multiplying transformational churches among all people.This concise yet robust biblical-theological treatment focuses on God's glory, a strong ecclesiology, the importance...
by J. Steven O'Malley
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements is a research center that grew out of a concern to take the pulse and heart of the various movements of revitalization which are developing in a variety of cultural settings across world Christianity. It is significant that this research...
Whole and Reconciled
Gospel, Church, and Mission in a Fractured World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The ministry of reconciliation is the new whole in holistic ministry. It must be if the Christian mission is to remain relevant in our increasingly fractured world. This book offers a fresh treatment of holistic ministry that takes the role of reconciliation seriously, rethinking the meaning of the...
De 12 a 3
Cómo aplicar los principios de G12 en su iglesia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 2, 2014
En los últimos años, se ha desarrollado otra forma para la supervisión de las células en Bogotá, Colombia. Este nuevo modelo ha cautivado a muchas personas en muchos países. Como se informa en este libro, el desarrollo de la Misión Carismática Internacional es uno de barro fresco que está...
Células Exitosas
8 Hallazgos Sorprendentes sobre Grupos Celulares que Florecen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 12, 2018
¿Por qué algunas células son dinámicas, atractivas y respiran la vida de Cristo? ¿Por qué otras células se estancan y cierran? En este revolucionario libro, Joel Comiskey y Jim Egli describen ocho sorpresas descubiertas sobre las células que son exitosas, a partir de su investigación realizada...
Facilita
Como Dirigir una Célula Exitosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Facilita resalta las dinámicas claves de grupos pequeños que le darán al líder confianza para facilitar a otros. Facilita le enseña a un líder cómo escuchar bien, hacer preguntas, capacitar a otros, involucrar a las personas, y cómo prepararse para la reunión.
Este libro muestra a...
The Contextualisation of Leadership in Paul
Applied to English-Speaking Methodist Churches in Peninsular Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Leadership and its exercise in different cultures is a major issue in today’s church. To what extent is it legitimate to use the leadership patterns of the local context and can these be challenged? This book examines Paul's ministry and writings to see how the early church contextualised leadership...
Mission and Evangelism in a Secularizing World
Academy, Agency, and Assembly Perspectives from Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Secularization, as a movement away from a religious orientation to life, is strong in Canada and has influence worldwide. In this volume, missiologists and practitioners across Canada consider how an agenda of Christian mission and evangelism can be advanced in a secularizing environment. How can...
The Earless Man from Chile
Mission Stories of Healing and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
As a third-generation missionary, Elena Huegel is an adult "Third Culture Kid," someone who spent a significant part of her life outside her parents' culture. Elena's experiences as a missionary in Paraguay and Chile provide the stories in The Earless Man from Chile. Testimonies of faith...
Authentically Emergent
In Search of a Truly Progressive Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Are Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, and Rob Bell "yesterday's news," as many evangelicals seem to think? Truth and the New Kind of Christian (2005) tried to provide a balanced assessment of McLaren's and Jones's views. But, they seem to be right about much more that is affecting...