Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Schleiermacher maintained that «to make proselytes out of unbelievers is deeply engrained in the character of religion.» But why do religions proselytize? Do all religions seek conversions? How are religions adapting their proclamations in a deeply plural world? This book provides a detailed analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The aim of the book is to explore some of the contributions made by Protestant Nonconformity to Christian missions. The occasion of the conference which gave rise to the volume was the centenary of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910, but the topics treated here deliberately range more widely,...
The Ministry of the Spirit
Selected Writings of Roland Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Roland Allen is internationally renowned for his controversial solutions to dilemmas within churches and missions. His works were first written in the first decade of the twentieth century, yet their ideas are so radical that they are still relevant today. Indeed, Allen predicted that his principles...
Christian Imperialism
Converting the World in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire...
Called to the Uttermost
A Missionary’S Story of How to Identify God’S Call and Thrive in the Extreme
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In this book, the author presents her own life story and the challenges of faith in God and commitment to her calling; presents her own path of destiny, which prompts the reader to examine his/her life purpose; demonstrates compelling reasons to support those in the mission field to fulfill the Great...
Transcending Mission
The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion...
George Muller Collection (5-in-1), Autobiography of George Muller, Answers to Prayer, Counsel to Christians, Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours
Writings from a man of faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
George Muller (1805-1898) was a man of prayer and courage who through faith established orphanages and schools for thousands of children in England in the 1800’s. He was also well known for his preaching, teaching and missionary work. His life and legacy has been an inspiration to countless thousands...
On Call
The unexpurgated story of the Running Doctor!
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Born in the middle of an air raid, Val's life began with a bang, and she has been living in the fast lane ever since. Aged ten, she became a Christian at a beach mission, and then at twenty-one she committed the unforgivable sin (as defined only by her parents on that occasion). In 1967 she graduated...
by Felix Asade
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Prayer does not excuse planning and before entering a new mission field, appropriate considerations should be given to issues relating to the specific nature of such location bearing in mind the necessity to start well and finish strong. Foreign Missions Strategy: Technical Readiness shows how Mission...
by J. B. Finley
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
From the author's preface:
No living man, probably, has seen and known more of the Indians in the northwest than myself. During almost seventy years I have been among them, as it were – have been acquainted with their principal men, studied their history, character, and manner of life. With...
by Felix Asade
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Foreign Missions planning could take considerable time and use up huge resources but it is worth the effort if the strategic purpose of missions is achieved. Most times Missionaries and their sponsors overlook important management details and end up wasting field resources. Foreign Missions Strategy:...
I'm Just an Illinois Farm Boy
My Missionary Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
- How will we pay the bills if I quit my job? - Who will take care of our aging parents? - When will we see our children again? - To what remote part of the world will we be sent? These were a few of Gary’s many questions of God when He called him to foreign missions...
Missional Transformation: God’S Spirit at Work
Essays Celebrating the Outreach Ministry of Dr. Eugene Bunkowske
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Missiologists and mission-oriented folks have been invited to reflect on topics that touch on the transforming power of Gods Spirit. This series of essays has been produced as one way of celebrating the fascinating, missional career of Dr. Eugene Bunkowske, long-time missionary to Africa, long-time...
Jesus of Korea
Savior of the People
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In 2010, nearly 30 percent of South Koreans—a country with a Confucian tradition over 1000 years old—identify as Christian, the largest percentage of Christians in an Asian nation, aside from the Philippines. Korea also boasts of having the largest church in the world; it also has the largest...