Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
Understanding the Iglesia ni Cristo
What They Really Believe and How They Can Be Reached
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Does the Iglesia ni Cristo really teach that their buildings will go up in the rapture?Do they use coercive methods to make sure their members give at least a tithe of their income to the church?Have confrontational methods of evangelism been effective in reaching them?The answers to these questions...
Effective Intercultural Communication (Encountering Mission)
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is designed to offer contemporary intercultural communication insights to mission students and practitioners. Authored...
A Story of God and A Man
One Pilgrim’s Journey of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Why would anyone want to return to his birthplace after having vowed upon leaving that he would never go back? The answer is found in the pages of this touching story of divine providence. This book is an account of one pilgrim’s incredible journey of faith, from a very unhappy childhood to a radically...
The Sending Church
The Church Must Leave the Building
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
When crowds refused to disperse at Elvis Presley concerts in hopes of another encore from the king of rock and roll, the announcement that “Elvis has left the building” had to be made. Pastor Pat Hood recalls from childhood one such performance that came to his hometown, and with his new book...
Mission Continues
Global Impulses for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In May 2009, 35 theologians from Asia, Africa and Europe met in Wuppertal, Germany, for a consultation on mission theology organized by the United Evangelical Mission: Communion of 35 Churches in Three Continents. The aim was to participate in the 100th anniversary of the Edinburgh conference through...
Crossing Cultures with Jesus
Sharing Good News with Sensitivity and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
You can be a missionary by crossing an ocean or by crossing the street. We now have unprecedented opportunities to meet people from every culture and nation. International study and global migration allow us to build relationships with Buddhists and Muslims, students from Singapore and workers from...
Get Real
Sharing Your Everyday Faith Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Christians often make evangelism into an awkward experience. We host evangelism events and rehearse three-step plans, but we struggle to relate to non-Christians or to tell our own stories in an authentic way. Get Real calls us to live out what Christ modeled–a lifestyle of actively sharing the...
by Joan Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
When God shapes our lives to fit his purposes, anything is possible!
Raised in a strict Christian sect, with many religious rules and social requirements, Joan struggled to reconcile the lifestyle she was expected to lead with the example that Jesus set for his disciples. Her desire to follow...
by H.A. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
H. A. Baker shares his true-life missionary account of the Spirit of God falling on the Chinese beggar children of the Adullam orphanage.
Biography of a Mexican Crucifix
Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
In 1543, in a small village in Mexico, a group of missionary friars received from a mysterious Indian messenger an unusual carved image of Christ crucified. The friars declared it the most poignantly beautiful depiction of Christ's suffering they had ever seen. Known as the Cristo Aparecido (the "Christ...
Mission in the Spirit / Ma and Ma
Towards a Pentecostal/Charismatic Missiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The book explores the unique contribution of Pentecostal/ Charismatic mission from the beginning of the twentieth century. The first part considers the theological basis of Pentecostal/Charismatic mission thinking and practice. Special attention is paid to the Old Testament, which has been regularly...
by Nancy D. Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Author Nancy Sheppard had never heard of female genital mutilation (FGM) until she arrived as a missionary in Liberia, West Africa, in 1986. In the decades since, because of her ongoing ministry among the affected women, she has studied the subject intensively. As a result, she has gained an understanding...
by Dr. Peter Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The Discipleship book series trilogy is packed full of Biblical inspiration, life-changing insights and practical instruction – to enable us to love God more wholeheartedly, to serve Him more effectively, to obey Him more consistently, to worship Him more faithfully.Putting Feet to Your Faith,...
Helen Roseveare
Though Lions Roar
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Missionary Doctor to the Congo Dr. Helen Roseveare was serving the Lord at an isolated hospital in the jungles of the Belgian Congo, preaching, teaching and doctoring. In 1960 the colony became an independent nation: Zaire. But four years later, the Simba rebellion threw the country into anarchy. Rebels...