Making Disciples Across Cultures: Mis...
Charles A. DavisCulture affects how we make disciples. We often unconsciously bring our own cultural assumptions into ministry and mission, not realizing that how we think and operate is not necessarily the best or only way to do things. In today's g...
Short-Term Missions Workbook: From Mi...
Tim DearbornGoing on a short-term missions trip can be a life- and faith-transforming experience. It can enrich the way you view the world. It can cause you to rely on God more fully. It is an opportunity to develop deep relationships with your t...
Telling the Gospel Through Story: Eva...
Christine DillonThe 2013 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in Evangelism! Everybody loves a good story. In an age when prepackaged gospel formulations leave people cold, well-told Bible stories can be used powerfully by God to touch people's hea...
Kingdom Outposts: A Fresh Theology of...
Dru DodsonKingdom Outposts is about relief & development ... and it's about church planting, biblical theology, apostolic leadership, the kingdom of God, and a distinctive kingdom economics. "Relief & development" as usually presented...
A Weekly Letter to Your Missionary: M...
Jeffrey EricksonConnect with your missionary--even from far away--with this book full of inspiring messages you can enjoy together. Inside you ll find 104 mini-lessons, in letter form, designed to send to your favorite elder or sister each week. Whet...
Mobilizing Gen Z: Challenges and Oppo...
Jolene ErlacherA God-Designed Generation for a God-Given Task The scale and scope of the global, technological, and cultural changes of the past two decades are unprecedented. For the first time in history, American churches and agencies are mo...
Renovate or Die: Ten Ways to Focus Yo...
Bob FarrBe the Church Jesus calls us to be. Bob Farr asserts that to change the world, we must first change the Church. As Adam Hamilton says in the Foreword, "Read [this book] carefully with other leaders in your church. . . . You'll so...
From Dependence to Dignity: How to Al...
Brian FikkertThe church of Jesus Christ finds itself at a very unique moment in history. The average Christian living in the "economically advanced countries" enjoys a level of prosperity that has been unimaginable for most of human hist...
For 25 years, American Caribbean Experience has been serving the people of Jamaica through education, health care, enterprise and discipleship. From teaching children to read, to pulling teeth, to financing small businesses, to train...
We Died Before We Came Here: A True S...
Emily ForemanIf not you, who? If not now, when? This was the challenge answered by Stephen Foreman and his wife, Emily, when they traded in their American white picket fence for a giant, dusty sandbox as missionaries in the deserts of North Africa...
Refugee Diaspora: Missions Amid the G...
Sam GeorgeRefugee Diaspora is a contemporary account of the global refugee situation and how the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ is shining brightly in the darkest corners of the greatest crisis on our planet. These hope-filled pages of ref...
The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Sha...
Jayson GeorgesLearn How the Gospel Speaks to Guilt, Shame, & Fear Cultures! Western theology emphasizes forgiveness of sins, but people in the Majority World covet honor or spiritual power. The 3D Gospel is a concise, practical book explaining th...
Padre Miguel: A Memoir of My Catholic...
Michael J. GillgannonIn this wonderful book, Father Michael J. Gillgannon ("Padre Miguel") has shared wonderful stories about his work alongside the people of Bolivia and about his encounters with teachers, artists, theologians, and others. He has also re...
Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Bel...
J. D. GreearPeople are leaving the church J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And that's exactly how he wants it to be.When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he revealed that the key...
A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and...
Mekdes HaddisWhy do American Christians travel overseas to reach people in distant lands, but neglect ministering to people who immigrate from those lands to their home communities? Why does Western missions funding depend on narratives that marg...
One Thing: A Gospel-Centered Life On ...
Ben HarrellAs followers of Jesus, we have one thing to do: to live gospel-centered lives on mission. Any mission, especially one of this magnitude, requires that we understand what is expected and where we are headed. Typically, books about miss...
To the Ends of the Earth: Calvin's Mi...
Michael A. HaykinCalvinist missionaries. If you think that sounds like an oxymoron, you're not alone. Yet a close look at John Calvin's life and writings reveals a man who was passionate about the spread of the gospel and the salvation of sinners.From...
Together on God's Mission: How Southe...
Scott HildrethTogether on God's Mission investigates Southern Baptist history, showing how and why the Southern Baptist Convention came to embrace the vision of a cooperative denomination. It also explores how this vision has shaped denominational ...
The Missionary Position: Mother Teres...
Christopher Hitchens"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe ...
Mapping Church Missions: A Compass fo...
Sharon R. HooverThe terrain of church missions is often bewildering. Should we prioritize evangelism or works of service? Local ministries or overseas missions? What's more important: giving our money or giving our time? Crisis relief or building sus...
The Mind of a Missionary: What Global...
David JoannesHave you ever wondered what makes a missionary tick? What are the underlying motivations of those who cross cultural, geographical, and linguistic boundaries for the sake of Jesus Christ? What compels them to take such extreme measure...
Standing on Our Own Feet: How to Enco...
Jean JohnsonThere is a popular saying in Kenya: Nobody walks with another man's gait. A person's gait is as unique as their fingerprints or voice patterns. To borrow someone else's gait is to become someone else. Churches in the non-Western world...
We Are Not the Hero: A Missionarys Gu...
Jean JohnsonWhile globalization gives North American Christians unprecedented opportunities to influence the world, we need to take care not to slip into a type of postmodern colonialism in which we make ourselves the experts or the 'hero come to...
Dispatches from the Front: Stories of...
Tim KeeseeChina, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq . . .God is at work. Christians are testifying. The gospel is advancing.In this captivating travelogue, a veteran missions mobilizer leads readers to experience global Christianity, exploring the faith and...
Go Tell It: How--And Why--To Report G...
James KillamGreat stories are happening everywhere in the mission field and around the world. Sometimes these stories hit their mark, but more often than not these stories of God at work often stay hidden, are told ineffectively, or miss their ...
Voices Rising: Women of Color Finding...
Shabrae Jackson KriegVoices Rising: Women of Color Finding & Restoring Hope in the City is a compilation of the stories of many women in mission. In these stories, themes of belonging, identity, calling, loss, and privilege emerge, outlining the difficult...
Evangelism and Mission: Biblical and ...
Benjamin a. KwashiArchbishop Kwashi's towering experience as a frontline practitioner in the Mission of the Church over several years is condensed in this book. This is a compelling companion to all obedient disciples to the Supreme mandate of Jesus Ch...
Cross-Cultural Partnerships: Navigati...
Mary T. LederleitnerOne of the biggest challenges in global mission work is money—not merely the need for it, but working through cross-cultural differences surrounding how funds are used and accounted for. Cross-cultural missteps regarding financial i...
Women in God's Mission: Accepting the...
Mary T. LederleitnerWomen have advanced God's mission throughout history and around the world. But women often face particular obstacles in ministry. What do we need to know about how women thrive? Mission researcher Mary Lederleitner interviewed and sur...
Love Sees Differently: Letting Go of ...
Joey LetourneauLove Sees Differently brings to light counter cultural ways of mission, challenging each person to see God, others, themselves, and missions through renewed eyes. Mission starts with our perspective, and these pages w...