Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
Small Beginnings
The remarkable true story of a boy overcoming rejection, to a man on a mission caring for children on the West Bank and serving God in Israel, Africa and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Small Beginnings shows how a life can be turned around and fulfilled… if we stop and listen to what God has planned for us.
How did a young child who suffered verbal abuse and rejection become a soldier in the army, a top teacher at technical trade school, a missionary to Israel and Africa...
Church Planting in the Secular West
Learning from the European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
An expert study of church planting in the most secular part of contemporary Europe
In this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Although Pentecostalism worldwide represent the most rapidly growing missionary movement in Christian history, only recently scholars from within and outside the movement have begun academic reflection on the mission. This volume represents the coming of age of emerging scholarship of various aspects...
They Shall See His Face
The Story of Amy Oxley Wilkinson and Her Visionary Blind School in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Amy Oxley Wilkinson was arguably the most widely known female Australian missionary in China and the West in the early 20th century. She was the great granddaughter of colonial chaplain Samuel Marsden and granddaughter of celebrated explorer John Oxley. After rescuing an abandoned blind boy, she founded...
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 Jeffrey Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Fr. Jeffrey "Skip" Thompson, MSA, a Missionary of the Holy Apostles, has created an intellectually stimulating and visually delightful photo-documentary of his experiences in Israel during an intercultural study tour sponsored by Holy Apostles College & Seminary in conjunction with...
Faith Works
A True Story of Radical Obedience
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
In her inspiring true story of her walk of faith, Eileen shares a candid glimpse into a God guided journey as she and Alan, her husband, transformed by a powerful conversion, left everything behind and travelled to India with their young family as missionaries. Here you enter the miraculous faith...
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...
by Arn Bowler
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
There have been few missions books that will touch your heart as will this story of how a young Canadian couple responded to the call of God to go to Africa as missionaries and ended up spending over 50 years ministering to a people with whom they had fallen in love. This book will take you deep into...
Called and Empowered
Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
"An unprecedented mix of pentecostal theology and mission practice, virtually a manifesto for pentecostal missions. . . . The fullest and finest missiological treatise originating within classical Pentecostalism available."--Russell P. Spittler
by Gordon Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Here is one of the most interesting stories of the Twentieth Century. Gordon Lindsay narrates his conversion, call to the ministry and early years on the evangelistic field — a colorful account of preaching in new fields. Then he tells of God’s call to organize great city-wide salvation-healing...
Introducing Cultural Anthropology
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
What is the role of culture in human experience? This introductory cultural anthropology textbook helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. The book covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to issues of concern to Christians,...
Overturning Tables
Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Outreach**Overturning Tables
Communication in Community
The Christian Witness in Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Stanley Dyer earned his MDiv and MTh from Asbury Theological Seminary and DMiss from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He served with OMS International in Japan for 27 years in evangelism and church planting. Sixteen of these years he taught at Tokyo Biblical Seminary, as professor of...