Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
by Marla Day Fitzwater
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
For 25 years, American Caribbean Experience has been serving the people of Jamaica through education, health care, enterprise and discipleship. From teaching children to read, to pulling teeth, to financing small businesses, to training the island’s future chefs and teachers, ACE has taken every...
Paul the Traveller
Saint Paul and his World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The life of the first-century man born Saul of Tarsus, who went on to become Paul the Apostle, by the acclaimed historian and author of Thermopylae.
Paul, born into Asia Minor’s Jewish aristocracy and a passionate student of scripture, was part of the crowd that killed Stephen, a deacon regarded...
Miracle on Voodoo Mountain
A Young Woman's Remarkable Story of Pushing Back the Darkness for the Children of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti."
Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job,...
by Andrew Bonar
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
An inspirational classic of the young pastor who shook Scotland. In 1843 his friend the Rev. Andrew Bonar writes this touching portrait of McCheyne, a man of God who died when he was only 29 years of age. His commitment to Jesus, his compassion for souls and his passion for revival continues to make...
Accessing Alcuin
A Master Bibliography for 'Alcuin: His Life and Legacy' and 'Alcuin: Theology and Thought'
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Accessing Alcuin enables an excellent multi-disciplinary appreciation of the scholar and theologian, Alcuin, through the manuscript collections and scholarship of medieval history and culture, European Church history and theology. Douglas Dales has provided an authoritative bibliography that comprehensively...
Broken Stick
Mission to the Forbidden Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Norman wasn’t afraid to die, and he wasn’t afraid to live, either. In 1927, fully aware of the dangers awaiting them, he and his wife, Ruby, sailed to the Solomon Islands only a year and a half after their marriage. Daunting trials and challenges would follow, but so would profound spiritual victories and miraculous answers to prayer
Making Friends among the Taliban
A Peacemaker's Journey in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In a remote valley north of Kabul in August 2010, American peacemaker Dan Terry and nine other aid workers were attacked and killed in an event that made worldwide headlines. Why would one man take his family, follow faith and calling into the political and religious maelstrom of Afghanistan, andthrough...
Mountain Majesty
A History of CODEP Haiti Where Sustainable Agricultural Development Works Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
What makes...an organization successful? A leader effective? A community thrive? Especially in impoverished, disaster-prone Haiti? Mountain Majesty: The History of CODEP Haiti Where Sustainable Agricultural Development Works, Volume 2 reveals the inner workings and complexities of this remarkable...
Azusa Street
How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book was originally published under the title "How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles."
Frank Bartleman was an eyewitness in the Azusa Street revival at the turn of the twentieth century. This is his most popular book, initially titled "How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles",...
Jesus, the Only Way to God
Must You Hear the Gospel to be Saved?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
If the evangelical church at large was ever too confrontational in its evangelism, those days are gone. In our shrinking, pluralistic world, the belief that Jesus is the only way of salvation is increasingly called arrogant and even hateful. In the face of this criticism, many shrink back from affirming...
Cross-Cultural Servanthood
Serving the World in Christlike Humility
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us." The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately,...
by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Worship gives us a glimpse of the majesty and grandeur of God. But that's not all. It also paints a picture of God's purposes for the world. He is in the process of gathering together a multitude of worshipers from every language and nation. Urbana worship director Sandra Van Opstal shows that worship...
Overrated
Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"It can be fashionable to talk about the poor but not as fashionable to talk to the poor. It may be popular to talk about justice and still not know any victims of injustice. But we will never make poverty history until we make poverty personal. Eugene Cho shatters all our hipster coffee-shop...
by Karen Stiller & Willard Metzger
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Going Missional tells the story of 13 diverse Canadian churches and their journey to become missional. With journalistic insight and candor, this unique book shares the challenges, successes, the setbacks and victories of these churches and their leaders from across Canada as they attempt to more fully...