Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens

Going on a short-term missions trip can be a life- and faith-transforming experience. It can enrich the way you view the world. It will cause you to rely on God more fully. It is an opportunity to develop deep relationships with your team and the people you serve.A short-term missions experience can also involve weeks of physical and spiritual distress. An unprepared team can wreak havoc on each other and the people they intend to serve. To get the most out of such a missions trip, you need to go prepared. Whether you are going on your own or with a team, the keys to preparation are here in Tim Dearborn's workbook. It includesConcise summary of crosscultural principlesHelp in facing spiritual warfareTips on avoiding a tourist mentalitySpiritual preparation through individual or group Bible study8-week course for teams to do togetherYou'll get a biblical perspective on the world, gain crosscultural understanding and even prepare for reentry when you return.If you are planning to go on a short-term missions trip, don't leave home without working through this book!

Short-Term Missions Workbook

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Apostle to Inland China

James C. Hefley

Louisiana

The Story of John and Elaine Beekman, Wycliffe Bible Translators in Mexico

Peril by Choice

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Copyright 1902
Illustrated, pages are in great condition 
Staining on back cover as pictured 

Minnesota

William Butler The Founder of Two Missions

D. Jeanene Watson

Serving the Poorest of the Poor

A biography of the founder of the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity, known for her work with the destitute and dying in the streets and slums of Calcutta and other cities.

Teresa of Calcutta

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#paperback #Mozambique #Africa #CivilWar #missionary

Alabama

A Novel

Keri Anderson is a typical thirteen- year- old . . . kind of. She's got an adorable yet highly annoying little brother, unending peer pressure, and moments of such clutziness that she really would like to crawl under a rock. But that's where the normalness ends. She and her family live in Mozambique, Africa, right in the middle of a major civil war. Though the war forces them to move to a safer location, it still doesn't seem truly real--until they are caught in the middle of enemy territory, at night, with no escape. Crushed by the disappearance of her African grandfather (Vovo), Keri struggles with the intense pain of missing him and with the agonizing thought that God could have saved Vovo Pastor if He had wanted to. Each time she looks at a small hand-carved wooden ox Vovo made, Keri's crisis of faith becomes more intense. Even God seems powerless or unwilling to stop the violence that threatens her family and friends. Is faith worth holding onto when God doesn't seem to care?

The Wooden Ox

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Tom Davis

Illinois

A Novel on the Edge of the World

Photojournalist Stuart Daniels has found purpose in life. After suffering the fallout of a tragic assignment, Daniels rediscovered his faith while helping a young African orphan. Now his photo work carries a greater mission: To educate people about social injustice happening around the world.
 
Daniels next assignment carries him back overseas and into the heart of Russia. Once there, Daniels is persuaded by an old friend to help save two girls from a desperate situation. Soon he becomes a key player in a dangerous campaign to rescue helpless women trapped in the sex-slave trade. What Daniels encounters during his journey will shake his faith, test his courage, and even threaten his life. Yet as Daniels gets deeper and the stakes get higher, he will discover that hope can be found in the darkest of places.

Priceless

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J. H. Worchester

Some wear and tear on outside cover - library stamp on inside page 

First to Cross Africa with the Gospel 

Fascinating biographies of men who lived for God.

David Livingstone

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1954 Edition

Heroes of the Cross

Rebecca Henry Davis

A Biography of Amy Carmichael

In 1903 Amy Carmichael's book Things as They Are shocked many Englishmen and Americans into taking a close look at India. Unafraid of public criticism, Amy Carmichael had revealed to the Western world the spiritual bondage of India as well as the suffering of thousands under the supposedly "benign" religion of Hinduism. She raised a plea for the little children who were being sold into lives of shame as slaves in Hindu temples.

With Daring Faith

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Florida

M. A. Thomas 

The Man With The Heart As Big As India 

M. David Sills

Georgia

Find Your Place in God's Plan for the World

Christians of all ages recognize the heartbeat of God to take the Gospel to the nations and wrestle with the implications of the Great Commission in their own lives. The Missionary Call explores the biblical, historical, and practical aspects of discerning and fulfilling God's call to serve as a missionary.  Pointing the reader to Scripture, lessons from missionary heroes, and his own practical and academic experience, Dr. Sills guides the reader to discern the personal applications of the missionary call. 

The Missionary Call

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Bailey Marks

1981 Edition 

Awakening in Asia

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Kentucky

A Memoir

In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as a missionary's daughter in Haiti during a time of upheaval--both in the country and in her home.

Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti--a country easy to sensationalize but difficult to understand. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the hills with a macouti of seeds to preach the gospel of trees in a deforested but resilient country. Her mother and sisters, meanwhile, spent most of their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, the same setting felt like a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over hard-packed dirt, the clamor of chickens and cicadas, the sudden, insistent clatter of rain as it hammered across tin roofs and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm.

As she emerges into womanhood, an already confusing process made all the more complicated by Christianity's demands, Irving struggles to understand her father's choices. His unswerving commitment to his mission, and the anger and despair that followed failed enterprises, threatened to splinter his family.

Beautiful, poignant, and explosive, The Gospel of Trees is the story of a family crushed by ideals, and restored to kindness by honesty. Told against the backdrop of Haiti's long history of intervention--often unwelcome--it grapples with the complicated legacy of those who wish to improve the world. Drawing from family letters, cassette tapes, journals, and interviews, it is an exploration of missionary culpability and idealism, told from within.

The Gospel of Trees

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Rated a near-perfect 4.5 out of 5 on Goodreads

Mother Teresa's life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an Angel of the Poor for countless people. She was greatly revered by Christians as well as Muslims, Hindus and unbelievers, as she brought the message of Christian love for one's neighbor from the slums of Calcutta to the whole world. Fr. Leo Maasburg was there as her close companion for many decades, traveling with her throughout the world and was witness to countless miracles and incredible little-known occurrences. In this personal portrait of the beloved nun, he presents fifty amazing stories about her that most have never heard, wonderful and delightful stories about miracles, small and great, that he was privileged to experience at Mother Teresa's side. Stories of how, without a penny to her name, she started an orphanage in Spain, and at the same time saved a declining railroad company from ruin, and so many more.They all tell of her limitless trust in God's love, of the way the power of faith can move mountains, and of hope that can never die. These stories reveal a humorous, gifted, wise and arresting woman who has a message of real hope for our time. It's the life story of one of the most important women of the 20th century as it's never been told before.

Maryland

A Personal Portrait

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Irene Howat, Irene Howat

The popular Christian series, Trail Blazers book is in practically new condition. No marks or flaws and spine isn't cracked. A great biography for youth and young adults.

See my other Christian, homeschooling and juvenile books!

Africa's Brave Heart

Part of Popular Trailblazer Series Precursor and father-in-law of David Livingstone Scottish minister in 19th century Africa

Trail Blazers: Robert Moffat: Africa's Brave Heart

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Phil Saint

1972 Edition

Amazing Saints

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C. Gordon Olson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Essentials of Global Missions

Veteran missionary and missiologist C. Gordon Olson has distilled his knowledge and experience to produce an introductory text to missions that is marked by its balance between theory and practice.

What in the World Is God Doing?

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William D. Powers

Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge

"A haunting account of one man's determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country."--Booklist

When William Powers went to Liberia as a fresh-faced aid worker in 1999, he was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." It wasn't long before Powers saw how many obstacles lay in the way, discovering first-hand how Liberia has become a "black hole in the international system"--poor, environmentally looted, scarred by violence, and barely governed. Blue Clay People is an absorbing blend of humor, compassion, and rigorous moral questioning, arguing convincingly that the fate of endangered places such as Liberia must matter to all of us.

Blue Clay People

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Old library copy; markings from library present, a few library stamps on pages with text. Other than the library stamps, there are no underlined passages, no highlights, no writing on text. No dog-ear pages 

New Mexico

Death Comes for the Archbishop 

K. P. Yohannan

In this exciting and fast moving narrative, K.P. Yohannan shares how God brought him from his remote Indian village to become the founder of Gospel for Asia. Drawing from fascinating true stories and eye opening statistics, K.P. challenges Christians to examine and change their lifestyles in view of millions who have never heard the Gospel. Gospel for Asia has more than 16,000 national missionaries in the heart of the 10/40 window, operates 54 Bible colleges with more than 9,000 students, and heads up a church planting movement that pioneers an average of 10 new fellowships every day. - Back cover.

Revolution in World Missions

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Horace Banner

The Amazon Rain Forest is the oldest and largest rainforest in the world. It covers a huge area of South America and has the most varied plant and animal habitat on the planet when you read this book, you will be part of an expedition and adventure into the heart of the rainforest.

Slight writing on inside cover. 

New Jersey

Discover what it's like to actually live in the rain forest. Experience the exciting and dangerous life of a pioneer missionary in South America.

Rain Forest Adventures

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Renee Meloche

Daring to Trust

Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) had trusted God when she traveled all alone from England to the far-off land of China. That same trust enabled her to lead nearly one hundred Chinese orphans on another daring journey, looking for safe homes away from the war in their village. The journey was hard, but God helped Gladys and the children every step of the way.

Heroes for Young Readers - Gladys Aylward

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Gracia Burnham

Dean Merrill

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Presents a firsthand account of the kidnapping of two American missionaries by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines, a yearlong ordeal that ended with the death of the author's husband, Martin Burnham.

In the Presence of My Enemies

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