Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books

Thoroughly updated and revised—with half of the chapters new to the second edition—Missiology equips the reader with a vast resource on contemporary missions. This graduate-level introduction is divided into five sections (Introduction to the Study of Missiology, Biblical Basis of Missions, Theology...

Early in his minstry in Central America, Hodges became firmly convinced that training national workers was the key to effectively evangelizing an country. The Central American church experienced rapid growth in the early 1950's. In 1953, Hodges was asked to expound on the church planting principles...

Arlene Schuiteman has a lifetime of stories to tell. They ramble across the Iowa fields of her farm-family childhood, they settle into the one-room schoolhouses that nurtured her first years of teaching, and they sweep away to Africa, where her gentle hands nursed thousands. Sioux Center Sudan...

In this addition to the highly acclaimed Encountering Mission series, two leading missionary scholars offer an up-to-date discussion of missionary strategy that is designed for a global audience. The authors focus on the biblical, missiological, historical, cultural, and practical issues that inform...

This new edition of a bestselling textbook (over 185,000 copies sold) draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. John Piper offers a biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things, providing readers...

In this book "A Missionary Heart and A Missionary Life", Professor Fomum writes:"Our aim in this book is to bring God’s people back to the missionary purposes of God. The missionary heart and the missionary life find their origin, base and model in the heart of God. He is a missionary God....

Near the close of the century, Tom Telford was criss-crossing the country researching the best ways to do and support missions. He found that the top missions churches have active, healthy, innovative programs. With the help of missiologists and church missions pastors, he compiled Today's All-Star...

John L. Nevius was a pioneering missionary to China. His book is the classic work that changed the face of foreign missions over a century ago. The unprecedented growth of Christian church in Korea became possible because missionaries over there implemented the principles described in this book. The...

Effective Christian Missions gives a deep understanding of what missionary work is all about, how important missions are in the expansion of God's Kingdom and how a mission can be accomplished successfully. The book is intended to help the reader understand his/her position and responsibility...

Jesus had a financial partnership team. Paul had a financial partnership team. God has a financial partnership team for every missionary, including you! Should the difficulties of raising financial support keep God's workers out of the harvest fields? It has, and the result is that the mission field...

Worldviews, basic belief systems, basic assumptions about the world we live in are just as important to career goals as they are to personal prosperity. Christian development organizations have long recognized the value of basic assumption to the entire development enterprise. Inadequacies of development...

Andrew Murray's classic "THE KEY TO THE MISSIONARY PROBLEM" was written in response to the 1900 Ecumenical Missionary Conference in New York. Murray had been invited by D. L. Moody to attend, but was unable to. This book is his response to their conclusions and reports - it is a very challenging...

The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610–1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early modern...

Ten Who Changed the World is seminary president Daniel Akin’s powerful tribute to the transformational work done by some truly inspiring Christian missionaries. With each profile, he journeys into the heart of that gospel servant’s mission-minded story and makes a compelling connection to a similar...