Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
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,...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Centenary of the World Missionary Conference, held in Edinburgh in 1910, is a suggestive moment for many people seeking direction for Christian mission in the twenty-first century. Since 2005 an international group has worked collaboratively to develop an intercontinental and multidenominational...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In the five years since Kwame Bediako passed away there has been a growing desire among colleagues and friends to put together a book that would honour his memory. The title has been chosen to reflect the range of interests and concerns that motivated Bediako’s scholarly work, including his founding...
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 Mission of God's People
A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Chris Wright’s pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God, revealed that the typical Christian understanding of “missions” encompasses only a small part of God’s overarching mission for the world. God is relentlessly reclaiming the entire world for himself. In The Mission of God’s People,...
Sticky Faith Service Guide
Moving Students from Mission Trips to Missional Living
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Anyone who serves teenagers today knows that more and more young people are eager to make a difference in the world. When students participate in short-term missions, service, and justice causes, parents and youth leaders hope these experiences will lead to real transformation. But research shows...
Which None Can Shut
Remarkable True Stories of God’s Miraculous Work in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Imagine a place where becoming a Christian is a punishable crime—and your own family exacts the punishment. Where those who spread the gospel among locals are deported if discovered. Where converts to Christianity face persecution, isolation, or even death as the price for their faith. “Reema...
Business as Mission
A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Business as mission (BAM) is a mission strategy whose time has come. As global economics become increasingly interconnected, Christian business people and entrepreneurs have unanticipated opportunities to build kingdom-strategic business ventures. But Christian companies and business leaders do not...
From Dependence to Dignity
How to Alleviate Poverty through Church-Centered Microfinance
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The church of Jesus Christ finds itself at a very unique moment in history. The average Christian living in the “economically advanced countries” enjoys a level of prosperity that has been unimaginable for most of human history. At the same time, over 2.5 billion people in the Majority World...
Akbar and the Jesuits
An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First published in 1926.
'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement
'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The Guardian
The Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find their way into the Mogul empire in the sixteenth century. Spending...
by Jake Schierling, Ruth Schierling
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
In this autobiographical account, Jake and Ruth Schierling, from Van Nuys, California, take their young family to live among the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone, Africa. Through building both physical bridges and bridges of friendship, they fell in love with the people and their culture. Through many...