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Garland gets on the radio and calls it in. He hears, "This is Seahorse 2-1. How can I help you?" Monique says, "A submarine can't help us." Garland says into the radio, "Seahorse 2-1, what are you?" "Just look over your heads." Monique said, "That's a small plane. He couldn't even kill us in that. What do you think he can do?"
"He can bring fire and brimstone down on you if he wants to." Garland said. "Seahorse 2-1, we have enemy soldiers...
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With the discovery of the New World, the countries of Europe raced to claim the new land and its riches. The Spanish built missions in California to bring Christianity to the Native Americans living there, and to protect the land from being taken by other countries. California's Spanish Missions tells the story of the missions, the people who built them, and the way the missions changed the lives of Native Americans. Build literacy and social studies...
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In the past we have focused on the "why" of missions in terms of motives, the "what" of missions in terms of the content of the message, and the "how" of missions in terms of methodologies and strategies, but the "where" question, in terms of where we send cross-cultural workers, has simply been assumed; it has meant crossing a geographic boundary. In Apostolic Function in 21st Century Missions, Alan R. Johnson introduces the idea of apostolic function...
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This is a book that covers all the bases about missions. It covers the reasons, means, and methods of the call of the Lord to the harvest. The reader is taken on a journey of becoming a worker in the mission field. From the theory to practical, biblical, and spiritual, this book shows future international workers what it's like to live and work overseas-and how to prepare for the experience. Important to this dynamic, she includes spiritual warfare...
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Heartwarming Stories and
Encouraging Research on Volunteerism
Experience the Spirit of Joyful Service
Capture the zeal for altruistic endeavors through lively, inspiring, true accounts and sound bites from over 60 highly-experienced, short-term, trip volunteers interviewed for an encouraging, doctoral study. Discover the documented outpouring of benefits and the overcoming of detractors obtained from humanitarian travel. Fascinating anecdotes illustrate...
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This volume deals with the contexts of violence. In an age of increasing concern for this type of missionary work, the missions community needs to hear from those that have reflected on the multifaceted elements involved in understanding the phenomenon of martyrdom-persecution violence as it relates to telling the age-old Gospel story. The place to begin is with Biblical and theological analysis followed by the grounding provided by constructing consequent...
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Most everything in the world has changed since the age of the "Greatest Missionary Generation," which was an outpouring of missionaries following World War II that lasted until around 1985. Today, however, missionaries are no longer welcomed in most of the world, and Christian terms like evangelism, church planting, conversion, and missions are considered pejorative outside of the Western world. All this demands a reexamination of the theology of...
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The inspiring story of a man of faith who journeyed from little boy selling boiled bananas in the streets of the Philippines to co-founder and leader of a prominent US global mission agency. In these pages you will find yourself:
Falling more and more in love with the loving Heavenly Father who cares for you.
Becoming more passionate about fulfilling your God-given purpose.
More earnestly desiring to obey the call of the God of Missions who "more...
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They give up everything and live in foreign, often lonely, sometimes hostile places. All for the Gospel! The life of a missionary can be a little mysterious to those who have never been one or seen one in their domain. But as you read their stories, you will come to know them in their deepest place-as they are-quite like you and me. Only, like Abraham, 'who went out not knowing,' this huge step of obedience has left their lives with never a dull moment....
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“Environmental Missions” defines an emerging category in missions, one that takes seriously both the mandate to evangelize the world and the responsibility of caring for God's good earth. Lowell Bliss was a traditional church planting missionary in India when his best Hindu friend there died of malaria. This was just one of the events that led him to reexamine the politically charged term "environment," understanding it now as simply "that which...
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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? This book casts a vision for the local church as the engine of world missions-for the joy of all people and the glory of God.
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Many Christians have grown up with a very limited concept of "missions" and "missionaries." In this view a missionary is a person who goes and preaches to lots of people, often in primitive lands, and explains the theology of the gospel. The natives are convinced and become Christians. Thus the gospel commission is fulfilled. Actual missions have not been carried out in this way very much. Missionaries are generally very aware of the personal aspect...
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Is Jesus really the only way? What is unique about Christ and missions? How can a new understanding of Jesus Christ bridge the gap between modern positivism and post-modern relativism? Can we learn from the model of Jesus how to be more effective mission workers? This volume (Number 12) of the annual Evangelical Missiological Society series offers answers to these questions and more as it discusses the clear and relevant communication of the centrality...
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What happens when an expatriate missionary is thrust into a context where the standard of living is so divergent that perceived or actual wealth suddenly becomes the strongest draw of attraction? What actual message is communicated through the wordless witness of the Western Christian missionary lifestyle? Is attention to so-called good news now so financially focused that other foundational issues become overshadowed? This issue becomes even more...
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Dans le vocabulaire religieux qui était courant au XIXe-XXe siècle, le terme « mission » désigne essentiellement l'envoi, par une communauté, de représentants ou de délégués, qui sont mandatés pour propager sa foi et implanter ses institutions. Dans ce sens, il n'y a mission que vers l'extérieur, auprès de gens qui ignorent le message qu'on désire leur transmettre.
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Short-term mission trips are great ways to impact the kingdom. Yet they can lack effectiveness because of mistakes or naiveté on the part of participants. In this insightful and timely book, David A. Livermore calls us to serve with our eyes open to global and cultural realities so we can become more effective cross-cultural ministers. Serving with Eyes Wide Open is a must-have book for anyone doing a short-term mission or service project, whether...
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