Missions category: 1022 books
Sioux Center Sudan
A Missionary Nurse's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Arlene Schuiteman has a lifetime of stories to tell. They ramble across the Iowa fields of her farm-family childhood, they settle into the one-room schoolhouses that nurtured her first years of teaching, and they sweep away to Africa, where her gentle hands nursed thousands.
Sioux Center Sudan...
Mission Partnership in Creative Tension
An Analysis of Relationships within the Evangelical Missions Movement with Special Reference to Peru and Britain from 1987-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Samuel Cueva has refined his concept of ‘partnership in mission’ by advocating the use of reciprocal contextual collaboration in this important contribution to scholarly reflection on contemporary missiology. Referencing historical, theological and functional aspects of how mission has been carried...
Short-Term Missions Workbook
From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
a concise summary of crosscultural principles
help in facing spiritual warfare
tips on avoiding a tourist mentality
spiritual preparation through individual or group Bible study
questions for individual reflection and group discussion
Missions
(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Dans le vocabulaire religieux qui était courant au XIXe-XXe siècle, le terme « mission » désigne essentiellement l'envoi, par une communauté, de représentants ou de délégués, qui sont mandatés pour propager sa foi et implanter ses institutions. Dans ce sens, il n'y a mission que vers l'extérieur, auprès de gens qui ignorent le message qu'on désire leur transmettre.
Power Shifts
Five Forgotten Strategies For Expanding God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Despite what many believers think, taking the good news of the Gospel of Christ to the whole world isn’t just a good idea or a suggestion. It’s a decree straight from God and an act of obedience to His will in our lives. But many Christians let their evangelistic efforts and missions outreach...
by Prof. M.M. Ninan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
This is a course which I have developed for teaching in the Sudan Theological College in Juba, South Sudan. It was later used as a standard course for all missionaries who came to South Sudan through the Summer Instistute of Linguistics a branch of Wycliff Translators. It introduces the essential steps to culturally identify and involve is successful mission.
by David Livingstone, Henry Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The DAVID LIVINGSTONE COLLECTION brings together some of the most well-known and beloved writings pertaining to Livingstone and his amazing career as a missionary and explorer. This volume if beautifully illustrated with dozens of the original woodcuts and contains the complete texts of:
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by John Livingston Nevius
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
John L. Nevius was a pioneering missionary to China. His book is the classic work that changed the face of foreign missions over a century ago. The unprecedented growth of Christian church in Korea became possible because missionaries over there implemented the principles described in this book. The...
by John Harder
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
John Harder was born in Kitchener, Ontario and graduated from London College of Bible and Missions. Married to Audrey Seymour, they served five years as church planters in Argentina with the Evangelical Union of South America. John was then appointed as Canadian Director. The mission merged with Gospel...
by Ebenezer M. Sikakane
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Apartheid's evil and God's grace are woven together in the life story of Ebenezer and Emily Sikakane. Raised in rural South African poverty and oppressed by white rule, God called Ebe and Emily first to himself and then to each other. Forged in the crucible of suffering and trust, hard work and humility,...
Beyond the Local Church
How Apostolic Movements Can Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Many people have given up on the church. But that doesn't mean that they've given up on God or Christianity. In many cases, it was merely that local church congregations were not the best context for missional people to live out their sense of God's call. The good news is that God is raising up vibrant...
by Fred R. Lybrand
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
About Life and Uganda by Fred R. Lybrand, is a book about the amazing transformation of a church from minimal involvement to deep saturation the work of the Great Commission. In a little over three years this modest-size church has sent over 50 members as short term missionaries to Uganda. The results...
The Ministry of the Spirit
Selected Writings of Roland Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Roland Allen is internationally renowned for his controversial solutions to dilemmas within churches and missions. His works were first written in the first decade of the twentieth century, yet their ideas are so radical that they are still relevant today. Indeed, Allen predicted that his principles...
Well
Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sarah Thebarge ponders the intersection of faith and medicine in this insightful narrative of her medical mission trip to Togo, West Africa.
Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age twenty-seven, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling...