Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
Teatime in Mogadishu
My Journey as a Peace Ambassador in the World of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
In 1991, Ahmed Ali Haile returned to the chaos of his native Somalia with a clear mission: to bring warring clans together to find new paths of peace--often over a cup of tea. A grenade thrown by a detractor cost Haile his leg and almost his life, but his stature as a peacemaker remained.Whether in Somali's...
Un protagonista tra gli eredi del celeste impero
Celso Costantini delegato apostolico in Cina (1922-1933) Prefazione del card. Pietro Parolin. Presentazioni di mons. Savio Hon Tai Fai, mons. Giuseppe Pellegrini, fr. John Chia Khee Long
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Celso Costantini, primo delegato apostolico in Cina, compì un’impresa mai riuscita prima: impiantare la Chiesa tra gli eredi del Celeste Impero. Il libro, frutto della consultazione degli archivi della Santa Sede, offre un inedito spaccato storico sul ruolo fondamentale svolto in Oriente dal futuro...
by Erik Black
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
I lived for two years in a dusty village near the coast of Kenya, East Africa. I went with some thought of bringing change to the Duruma people, but in the end I was changed as much or more than anyone else. Each chapter of "The Trees Were Spinning" tells a short story or two from my time...
by Nicole Oliver Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A youth mission prayer journal for personal reflection, group development, and a guide to doing justice.
Intercultural Theology
Intercultural Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
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Impossible is a Dare
Fighting for a world free from slavery
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Ben Cooley was just 26 years old when he booked Birmingham’s NEC Arena. He didn’t have the first idea about putting on a major event. He didn’t have a strategy, he didn’t have the funds. But he did a have vision; a vision to live in a world free from slavery. This is a story of passion turned...
Teaching Across Cultures
Contextualizing Education for Global Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In our globalized world, educators often struggle to adapt to the contexts of diverse learners. In this practical resource, educator and missiologist James Plueddemann offers field-tested insights for teaching across cultural differences. He unpacks how different cultural dynamics may inhibit learning and offers a framework for integrating conceptual ideas into practical experience.
by Tim Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Reflecting on the first eighteen months of Pioneer Ministry in a commuter suburb of Telford, Tim found the book of Jonah to be a rich mine of raw materials. In Being Sent we are invited to join Tim in pondering Jonah’s mission, in order that we might better understand God's heart for mission and so hear our own call more clearly and respond to it more obediently.
Conversionary Sites
Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine. Based on immersive...
by Dr. James Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Healing Words for Retired People is a call to the 65 million Americans who have reached retirement age.Uncle Sam Is Dying and You Can Help Save HimGod has used elderly people before:Abraham and SarahZacharias and ElizabethCalebOur Founding FathersYouRead this book and you will see how America’s...
Theological Education in a Cross-Cultural Context
Essays in Honor of John and Bea Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is a series of essays in honor of John and Bea Carter--John Carter being one of the most influential educators in this generation of the world-wide Assemblies of God movement. This wide influence is reflected in the contributing authors, all of whom have extensive ministry experience in...
by Andre CRONJE
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Christian stories on events that took place in the city of great joy, where angels walk the streets night and day. For the cry of salvation was heard in Paris, and faith arose in France to hope again for the Father's redemption and his glory. It includes words prophesied to encourage those who love this nation.
Competencies for Leading in Diversity
A Case Study of National Evangelical Associations in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The patriarchal approach to leadership in the African context is indeed an enigma, judging from the unpredictable outcomes and the quest for effective leadership. In many ways, the secularized big-man in the public square is no different from the sacralised great-man of God in the church. The Lord...
How I Know God Answers Prayer
Miracles from the Mission Field of Jonathan Goforth
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
“These incidents of answered prayer are not more wonderful or more worthy of record than multitudes the world over could testify to, but they are written and sent out simply and only because I had to write them or disobey God.”—Rosalind Goforth
Proof of God’s Power and Loving Faithfulness
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