Missions Missionary Work list 8

The End of the Horizon

by Beverly Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010

A girl named Sarah was going to the library to get a book, but before she went to the library she had a goal of what she wanted to do it was to be a missionary. She went to the library and found a book that looked interesting, but the library didn't want her to get that book, because something bad...

Thirty Conversations with a Missionary

Helping Churches Operate Like One

by JJ Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

J. J. Farmer has enabled everyone to be a fly on the wall during pivotal conversations that shaped the lives of his family and local partners as they worked among East Asians so that millions of more people would have access to the Gospel. Against all odds and struggling through significant pain,...

Go and Serve

The Call to Multicultural Sensitivity

by Taylor, Greg
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

The Church of the Nazarene has been living and breathing missions for more than 100 years; it is a part of who we are as Nazarenes. As you read about experiences in missions, imagine embracing the challenge to go and make Christlike disciples. The individuals you will meet are a sampling of hundreds...

Making a Difference in a Globalized World

Short-term Missions that Work

by Laurie A. Occhipinti
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

Every year, an estimated 1.6 million Americans participate in short-term mission trips, spending over one billion dollars—figures that have increased exponentially in the last two decades. About one third of U.S. congregations sponsor such trips each year. While they are referred to as “mission”...

Vistas

The Changing Face of Nazarene Missions

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

For the Church of the Nazarene, creating a climate for the Holiness message is our primary purpose. It is in that climate and against the landscape of shattering global events that we work. It is here and now that disciples are made, nurtured, and incorporated into the indigenous Body of Christ.Vistas...

The Yes Effect

Accepting God's Invitation to Transform the World Around You

by Luis Bush, Darcy Wiley
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

From the missions strategist behind "The 10/40 Window" In 1990, Luis Bush helped change modern missions by introducing the concept of the 10/40 window, a geographic region where large, dense populations of people suffered severe poverty and limited access to the gospel—essentially...

The Hand of Heaven

by John Harder
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

John Harder was born in Kitchener, Ontario and graduated from London College of Bible and Missions. Married to Audrey Seymour, they served five years as church planters in Argentina with the Evangelical Union of South America. John was then appointed as Canadian Director. The mission merged with Gospel...

Borrowed Trousers

Diary of a Mormon Missionary, Volume II of In Polygamy's Shadow

by Maggie Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

A JOURNAL, KEPT SECRET Borrowed Trousers, Diary of a Mormon Missionary draws the reader into the thoughts and feelings of a cowboy from Alberta serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas and Louisiana, from 1937 to 1939. He suffers hardship and sickness, and falls...

Squires in the Slums

Settlements and Missions in Late Victorian Britain

by Nigel Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007

Settlements were a distinctive aspect of late-Victorian church life in which individual philanthropic Christians were encouraged to live and work in communities amongst the poor and set an example for the underprivileged through their own actions. Often overlooked by historians, settlements are of...

This Is My Story

Missions Stories from the Frontlines

by Kathy Bousquet
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008

They give up everything and live in foreign, often lonely, sometimes hostile places. All for the Gospel! The life of a missionary can be a little mysterious to those who have never been one or seen one in their domain. But as you read their stories, you will come to know them in their deepest place—as...

Behind the Smiles

Tales of life in Thailand

by Jane Fucella
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016

How does it feel to leave your country and live amongst people of unfamiliar language and customs? What are the challenges of presenting Jesus in a culture where traditional Christian practices hold no meaning? How can the church reach out to a society which is built on the foundation of a different...

A Time for Mission

The Challenge for Global Christianity

by Samuel Escobar
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013

Christian mission in the twenty-first century has become the responsibility of a global church. The heart of 'mission' is the drive to cross geographical, cultural and social barriers in order to share the good news of Jesus Christ with all peoples. Drawing on his involvement in missionary work over...

Going Through .... Even if the Door is Closed

by Bill Bathman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

On August I 4, I 96 I , two days after East Germany closed the border andbegan erecting the Berlin Wall, an East German soldier, Hans Conrad Schuhmann,leapt across a barbed wire fence to West Berlin and freedom. At the same timethis man and millions of others were desperately trying to escape from...

Samuel Zwemer 7-in-1 [Illustrated]. Arabia: Cradle of Islam, Raymond Lull, Moslem Doctrine of God, Moslem Christ, Animism in Islam, Law of Apostasy in Islam, Islam: Challenge to Faith

Cover of Samuel Zwemer 7-in-1 [Illustrated]. Arabia: Cradle of Islam, Raymond Lull, Moslem Doctrine of God, Moslem Christ, Animism in Islam, Law of Apostasy in Islam, Islam: Challenge to Faith