Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
Taking Christianity to China
Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided...
Freedom to Libel? : Samuel Marsden v. Philo Free
Australia's First Libel Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
This collection of essays explores the two libel cases (criminal and civil) prosecuted by Rev. Samuel Marsden against John Thomas Campbell in 1817, following the publication of the Philo Free letter. The event is examined in the various contexts of Imperial and Australasian Colonial History, Marsden...
Carrying Fire
A Memoir by Evelyn B. Yohner
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The era of narratives in which missionaries followed God’s calling to remotest lands are necessarily dwindling away as a new generation of missionaries stands on the shoulders of these pioneers, and technology redefines how missionary endeavor is accomplished. These stories are like rare pearls,...
by G. H. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Although his name is little known in Christian cirlces today, Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853) was, according to the writer of this book, one of the most influential men of the nineteenth century. He was what might be termed a spiritual pioneer, forging a path through unfamiliar territory in order...
by W F P Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
When God Makes a Missionary is the life story of a missionary (Edgar Mahon), written by one of the greatest missionaries of the last century – William F P Burton.This book tells of how God changed Edgar Mahon from a rough-living transport rider, during the South African diamond and gold rush, into...
The Surge
A Global Church-Planting Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
What is the greatest missions investment in the world today? Larry Stockstill believes it is planting a national missionary to raise up a local church! Come into the world of Surge, a global church-planting movement touching all of the zones of the world. Surge is a bridge between Western supporters...
Western Christians in Global Mission
What's the Role of the North American Church?
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner (Missions/Global Affairs) 2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Global Outreach) The world has changed. A century ago, Christianity was still primarily centered in North America and Europe. By the dawn of the...
The Spirit Moves West
Korean Missionaries in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
With the extraordinary growth of Christianity in the global south has come the rise of "reverse missions," in which countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America send missionaries to re-evangelize the West. In The Spirit Moves West, Rebecca Kim uses South Korea as a case study of how non-Western missionaries...
American Evangelicals in Egypt
Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American...
by Frank Mundell
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
"Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” It is more than eighteen hundred years since these words were spoken, and in them we find the warrant for the attempts which have been made to evangelise the world. They form the God-given charter of missionary enterprise....
Growing up with God and Empire
A Postcolonial Analysis of Missionary Kid Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book analyzes the memoirs of 42 ‘missionary kids’ – the children of North American Protestant missionaries in countries all over the world during the 20th century. Using a postcolonial lens the book explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of, or intersected with, the...
Polycentric Missiology
21st-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five conferences on five continents displayed the landscape of global mission at the dawn of the third millennium: Tokyo 2010, Edinburgh 2010, Cape Town 2010, 2010Boston,...
by Don Tipton, Sondra Tipton
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
From Jesus with Love is a basic introduction to relief missions. It will inspire those whose hearts are already motivated to help others. It will inform and interest those for whom this perspective is new. This material lays the foundation of the Biblical mandate for relief missions. It explains how...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologist
Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.
The...