Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
There's a Sheep in My Bathtub
Birth of a Mongolian Church Planting Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
The 10th Anniversary of "There's a Sheep in my Bathtub" is being marked and honored by a fresh edition with updated content and many more illustrations - 85 in all!
What happens when you drop an American family with three small children into the post-Communist chaos of Outer Mongolia? There's...
by Roland Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
If it were once believed that the freedom of churches should be restricted to bring greater control to missions, Roland Allen sets out to overturn this conception. Warning against the danger of imposing greater limits on churches, the Author advocates that all members of the church, 'natives' and...
by Lorenzo Mondragon
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Take a journey filled with life threatening experiences that missionaries are faced with as they bring God’s word to the far corners of the world. Experience the joy and satisfaction of large numbers of people responding to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The author shares his experiences as a missionary...
The Key to the Missionary Problem
A Passionate Call to Obedience in Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Why is there a “missionary problem?” Surely with millions of Christians around the world, we can marshal a mighty force of well-equipped missionaries send out to proclaim the Gospel. Murray sets forth an answer in this burning call to action that every church leader, mission leader and every believer should read.
by Samuel Zwemer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Samuel Zwemer (1867-1852) was an American missionary to the Middle East and an avid writer, speaker and teacher. He was known as the “Apostle to Islam” for his untiring efforts to reach them with the Good News of Jesus Christ.
ZIGZAG JOURNEYS was originally written in 1911...
Challenged by Women
... and a Few Good Men
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Plenty of womenand a few good menhave made Shirley Bathgate into the woman she is today.
In this autobiography/memoir, she relives her childhood in Detroit, where she enjoyed exploring the alleys and playing at the big fire station at the end of her block with her brother and cousin.
But...
View from the Faraway Pagoda
An Australian Missionary in China from The Boxer Rebellion to The Communist Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book describes the life and service of an inspiring woman, Sophie Newton, whose desire to serve God led her to the forefront of missionary work in south-east China from 1897 to 1931. She lived through the tumultuous events of the Boxer Rebellion and Nationalist Revolution, as well as warlord...
Finish the Mission
Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
This is no ordinary missions book. The theme isn't new, but the approach is refreshing and compelling, as contributors David Platt, Louie Giglio, Michael Ramsden, Ed Stetzer, Michael Oh, David Mathis, and John Piper take up the mantle of the Great Commission and its Spirit-powered completion.
From...
Missionary Impositions
Conversion, Resistance, and other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
In this collection of essays, anthropologists of religion examine the special challenges they face when studying populations that proselytize. Conducting fieldwork among these groups may involve attending services, meditating, praying, and making pilgrimages. Anthropologists participating in such...
by Katy Brink
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Living abroad, feeling at home.Sometimes God takes us on unexpected journeys. In Clotheslines and Callings, Katy tucks us in her luggage and allows us to walk alongside her family as they follow God's unexpected call to set up life in Madrid, Spain. Wanting to present the real joys and struggles...
The Reform of the Ministry
A Study in the Work of Roland Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
No one was more radically critical of the ministry and the inherited Church policy that surrounds it than Roland Allen (1868-1949), whose prophetic writings constantly challenge the whole mission of the Christian Church, and many of his most important essays are collected here along with contributions...
Missions
How the Local Church Goes Global
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Every local church should be engaged with global missions, even if most individuals in the church aren't called to go overseas. But what does this engagement actually look like? How can local churches train, send, and support missionaries well? Unpacking principles from the Bible and applying them...
“His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”
Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”: Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in helping Chinese immigrants...
by Betty Macindoe
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The incredible, faith-inspiring story of a waitress from the slums of London's East end who became a pioneer missionary in Portuguese Guinea, now Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.Bessie Brierley attended missionary meetings conducted by Norman P. Grubb. "Mr. Grubb," she asked in a bold Cockney...