Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
The Church In Many Houses
Reaching Your Community Through Cell-based Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Although the largest churches in the world are cell-based, many have questioned whether the model will work in North America. The Church In Many Houses: Reaching Your Community Through Cell-Based Ministry makes the case that the cell model will work— if key assumptions about spiritual growth and...
Leading Across Cultures
Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
The worldwide church is more interconnected than ever before, with missionaries going from everywhere to everywhere. Africans work with Australians in India. Koreans plant churches in London and Los Angeles. But globalization also creates challenges for crosscultural tension and misunderstandings,...
by Daniel Ozoko
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Most rural areas are centres of idolatry, ancestor worship, masquerades, all kinds of cults, witchcraft, poverty, spiritual darkness, disease, illiteracy, high mortality rate, etc.So many ministers of the gospel have tried unsuccessfully to reach rural areas and could not understand why they...
Context and Contextuality
The Mission of Migrant Churches with a Focus on the Pacific Coast Slavic Baptist Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Since 1988, hundreds of thousands of evangelical Christians have migrated to the United States of America from former Soviet Union countries, establishing many Russian-speaking immigrant congregations across the country. This study analyzes how these immigrant churches function in their new cultural,...
The Prison Angel
Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually...
by Alan Robert Pence
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Something Went Wrong? / Right! Real Studies of Leadership in Cross-Cultural Ministry consists of 37 brief stories that originate from the cross-cultural development and leadership work of linguistic experts Alan Robert Pence and his wife, Patricia. After each story, discussion sections feature leadership...
Go Tell It
How--and Why--to Report God's Stories in Words, Photos, and Videos
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Will you tell the world what God is doing?
Whether we do ministry in a faraway country or a nearby neighborhood, we experience the work that God is doing in lives of people around the world. Yet when we try to communicate those stories to our friends at home, we often fall flat.
How...
Making Disciples in the Twenty-First Century Church
How the Cell-Based Church Shapes Followers of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
We know that the goal of the Christian life is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. While this is God's ultimate plan, does he have a particular purpose for the cell-based church? I've been wrestling with this question for the past twenty-two years. This question confronts me every time I coach...
by Don Tipton, Sondra Tipton
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
If you are about to start a food distribution program that will meet the spiritual and material needs of people in your community, you are about to embark on one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. At our Friend Ships facility in Southern California, we collected and distributed, free...
by Betty Sharpe, John Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
On an island in Eastern Indonesia, lived a semi-nomadic group of hunters and gatherers with a fearsome reputation that made many unwilling to even step foot into their territory. In 1982, a small group of outsiders took that very step. In this gripping and honest account, John and Betty describe their...
by James Gilchrist Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
A selection of accounts of the lives Christian evangelists of the past, gleaned from their biographies, autobiographies and writings by J. Gilchrist Lawson. These evangelists had one thing in common: after their conversion they needed a Pentecostal experience, a filling of the Holy Spirit before they...
by Gary Harding
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Come Follow Me, asks pastors, leaders and Christians everywhere to re-think their ministry priorities. Too often we spend most if not all our resources and time on ourselves. We tend to forget that the mission of Jesus was to save the lost and bring them back into relationship with God. The ancient...
Why Do They Come?
The Lord's Mission To Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Pack your bags! These exciting real life stories will stir your heart and move you to want to meet the needs of the sick, poor and hurting in Mongolia. More importantly, it will teach you the innovative and effective techniques used by Medical Education International to introduce people to the Great...
Everyday Church
Gospel Communities on Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
HOW DOES THE CHURCH REACH THE UNCHURCHED?
We live in an increasingly post-Christian culture. More and more we find ourselves on the margins as less and less people have any intention of ever attending church. What used to work doesn’t work anymore and we need to adapt.
Helping us to...