Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
The Reluctant Missionary
A Journey from Failure to Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
As a new missionary, Miah was burdened with the expectation of living a perfect life so that others would come to know Christ. But after experiencing failure after failure, “success” became just getting out of bed. Devastated, Miah returned home believing she had disappointed God and her...
The Gospel in Spanish
El Evangelio en Español: A Glossary of Vocabulary and Expressions For Use In a Latter-day Saint Church Setting
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
2nd Edition Revised and Expanded
Q. I'm an LDS missionary in a Spanish-speaking mission. Is there a reference I can use without having to carry yet another book with me? A. You need The Gospel in Spanish. It’s available for all mobile devices.
Q. I have to give a talk in church next...
by Melbourne Cuthbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Autobiography of Mel Cuthbert
This book is the captivating real-life story of God’s work in the most dynamic mission field in the world, the human heart. Mel’s story combines heart-crushing hurt and adrenaline-pumping hope as God shapes a man to be His fruitful servant. I was in Brazil...
by J. B. Finley
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
From the author's preface:
Our book explains itself, so far as the object we had in view in getting it up is concerned.
To supply a desideratum in the history of western Methodism, at least, so far as taking the incipient steps in that work is concerned, has prompted our endeavors....
The Prophet of Cuernavaca
Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich is best known for books like Deschooling Society and Medical Nemesis that skewered the dominant institutions of the West in the 1970s. Although commissioned in 1961 by American bishops to run a missionary training center in Cuernavaca, Mexico,...
What Can I Do?
Making a Global Difference Right Where You Are
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
While “missions” used to be the territory of experts and missionary professionals, globalization has made the issues and needs of our world accessible to average Americans. Many American Christians feel overwhelmed by the scope of the brokenness in the world and conclude all they can do is go...
by Zacharias Tanee Fomum
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book: “Church Planting Strategies” is a series of teaching of Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum addressed to missionary candidates during a session of the School of Knowing and Serving God, the missionary training arm of Christian Missionary Fellowship International in Yaounde, Cameroon. The...
Short-Term Missions, A Christian Guide to STMs, for Leaders, Pastors, Churches, Students, STM Teams and Mission Organizations
Survive and Thrive!
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Updated in 2017. Short-Term Missions, A Christian Guide to STMs is a full and concise guide to STMs. What you need to know about planning a STM, or joining a STM team, and considering the options as part of the Great Commission, from the Good News to good works. This book is full of anecdotes and...
Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions
Leader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
With over 300,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. This stand-alone resource applies the principles of that book specifically to short term missions.
Helping Without Hurting: Short Term Missions**Leader’s...
by James Blaine Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This is a great memoir detailing some missionary travels of James Blaine Chapman.
The Table of Contents are as follows: Chapter 1: WHY THIS BOOK? Chapter 2: MY FIRST NIGHT IN GUATEMALA Chapter 3: THREE DAYS IN LIVINGSTON Chapter 4: TEN DAYS WITH THE QUAKERS Chapter 5: IN ALTA VERA PAZ Chapter...
Training for Harvest
Stopping for the One, Believing for the Multitudes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
You Were Made for This!
From the remote corners of the jungle to the world’s largest cities, the Spirit of God is powerfully at work within the hearts of people from all walks of life, drawing them to Himself. The harvest is abundant!
But where are the harvesters?
God is seeking...
To All Nations From All Nations
A History of the Christian Missionary Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Sharing the Good News might be understood as the prime directive of the Church from its earliest times, but the Church soon discovered unforeseen obstacles and its own set of temptations, including its lust for power and domination. Although the gospel might be joyfully offered, it was not always...
by Johnson F. Odesola
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This book provides details you need to know on the topic of Church planting and missions in Africa nations. Missionaries, evangelists and church planters will find it a useful tool in their efforts to reach African nations and tribal people with the gospel of Christ Jesus. It is a writ well furnished...
Well Sent
Reimagining the Church’s Missionary-Sending Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Steve Beirn moves the conversation on global missionary sending from the mission agency to the front door of the local church. With a special chapter by George Murray, Well Sent equips local churches in launching missionary sending through scalable guidance, accessible illustrations and practical...