Missions category: 1022 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Women’s voices are often unheard and unreported; and their place can be controversial. This book brings together the voices of Christian women scholars and practitioners at the nexus of Christianity, mission and Islam. It comes out of the colloquium of the same name, held in Melbourne, Australia...
Amazon Adventures
Tales from the Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Remote. Isolated. Threatening. Intriguing.Deep in the Amazon jungle overlooking the Kusu and Marañon Rivers, Larry and Addie Garman, young missionaries in the early 1960s, made their home. In Amazon Adventures, you will join the Garmans as they walk through the jungle, navigate the raging Marañon,...
by Tami Brumbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A young boy in Papua New Guinea is bitten by a blue-ringed octopus while spear fishing in the Bismark Sea. Nursing students perform CPR as they rush him to the Nazarene Mission Hospital in Kudjip. Even an intrusion by a machete-wielding man cannot deter God’s plan to provide physical and spiritual...
Disturbing the Dust
Notes from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Tony Herbert SJ has lived and worked for over 50 years, with those on the margins of Indian society. In this inspiring and challenging book, he explores such questions as these:
Can the Catholic Church be a Church of the poor for the poor? Who are the poor? How does following the way of Jesus...
Tegendraads en bij de tijd
verder in het spoor van Bonhoeffer
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 26, 2015
'Een uitzonderlijke prestatie. Om niet te zetten: navolgenswaardig.' - dagblad Trouw Geïnspireerd door de bekende theoloog Dietrich Bonhoeffer denkt Wim Dekker na over thema’s als gemeente-zijn, navolging, doop, cultuur en de verhouding tussen kerk en wereld. Ook zeventig jaar na zijn dood daagt...
Oefenen in discipelschap
de gemeente als groeiplaats van het goede leven
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Discipelschap is niet iets om alleen over te (s)preken. Je moet het ook doen. Daarbij wil dit boek helpen, vooral bij de vraag hoe je als gehele gemeente kunt oefenen in het volgen van Jezus. Hoe kun je samen discipelschap leren? In vijf verdiepende hoofdstukken bespreken de auteurs vijf thema’s...
by D Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
What exactly is Christian mercy? Is it simply what Christians today are doing to help the sick, the hungry, the homeless, and the poor? Is it another ideal we should aspire to? In this book Dr. Thompson builds the argument that what Jesus taught and modeled is what His church should be doing today....
Kierkegaard
A Christian Missionary to Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had a mission. The church had become weak, flabby and inconsequential. Being a Christian was more a cultural heritage than a spiritual reality. His mission—reintroduce the Christian faith to Christians. How could he break through to people who were members of the church...
Sons of Glory
Eat from the Tree of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
What is the glory realm? It is the realm of eternity. It is the revelation of the presence of God. It is the manifestation of His presence. He is glory. He is everywhere, but glory is the manifestation of that reality. Earth has the atmosphere of air, whereas the heavenly atmosphere is glory, His...
The Missiology behind the Story
Voices from the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
In the twenty-first century the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has faced many challenges – conflict, changes of governments, terrorism, trauma – yet new opportunities have opened up for local churches to demonstrate the love of God and bless their communities. This book provides a...
by Louise Robinson Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A story of incredible resilience and passionate faith in a country not her own, Louise Robinson Chapman’s Africa, O Africa is a reminder that God calls and sends people who are willing to say yes to His will. This updated edition by Chuck and Doris Gailey, retired missionaries to Africa, brings...
Surviving Borneo
One Family's Story of Life in the Jungles of Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In 1973 Ken and Colleen Ward, together with their two young children Evan and Lynette, left their comfortable homeland of New Zealand to live among the primitive Dayak tribes in the forbidding jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Their mission: to bring light and hope to a dark and fearful people - many...
by Marshall M Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Have you ever wrestled with how to become a full-time evangelist after God calls you to that ministry? Becoming A Spirit-Empowered Evangelist is that long-overdue resource. Follow Dr. Windsor as he shares the truths that he and his family discovered over their many years of ministry. From scheduling...
Disabling Mission Enabling Witness
Exploring Missiology Through the Lens of Disability Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
How would it look if we "disabled" Christian theology, discipleship, and theological education? Benjamin Conner initiates a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theology and missiology, imagining a church that fully incorporates persons with disabilities into its mission....