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Author
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
China, 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 lives of Christians living in some of the world's most perilous countries. The incredible accounts recorded here -- stories that span the globe from China to Afghanistan -- highlight the bold faith and sacrificial bravery...
2) Lost mission
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Among the dirt-poor barrios and ultra-wealthy enclaves lining the hills of southern California, new construction unearths a long-lost Spanish mission. This discovery sets off a chain of events that presents four unrelated people with difficult choices. In each case, a greater good can be served by compromising a basic moral value-risking the same fate that left the mission buried and forgotten for 250 years.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
Through Gates of Splendor is the true story of five young missionaries who were savagely killed while trying to establish communication with the Auca Indians of Ecuador. The story is told through the eyes of Elisabeth Elliot, the wife of one of the young men who was killed.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Islam is on the rise all over the West, including America, and the spread of Islam is rapidly altering the way we live. These changes are cause for alarm, for they endanger our freedoms of speech and religion-- but this in turn opens an incredible door of ministry for Christians, for Muslims normally do not have access to the gospel in their own lands. Lutzer urges Christians to see this as both an opportunity to share the gospel and a reason for...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"'It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti.' Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job, sold everything, and moved to Haiti, by herself--all without a clear plan of action. Megan Boudreaux had visited Haiti on a few humanitarian trips but each trip multiplied...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after 9/11, Norman, a national director for World Visions poverty reduction program in Mauritania, and his daughter Hannah were driving to the beach when an Arab man opened fire on his parked car, severely wounding him and his daughter. After their recoveries the family made the extraordinary decision to stay in Mauritania, to maintain their commitment to the poor in their community, and to forgive the man who had hurt them"--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of five missionary families who went to the Amazon basin in 1956 to live with the Huao, an extremely violent South American tribe. Narrated by the son of one of the missionaries killed by the tribe.
9) Rugged trails and ragged shoes: joys and heartaches of Lora Heatwole in mountain missions, 1926-1936
Author
Publisher
Christian Light Publications
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
2005 ECPA Retailer's Choice Award winner for best biography/autobiography! Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe asks him to help them, Steve, his wife, and their teenage children move back...
Author
Series
Publisher
YWAM Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary American, Dan Baumann was wrongly accused of espionage and thrown into the most infamous high-security prison in Iran. in that unlikely place, under the threat of execution and in the midst of despair, Dan witnessed the powerful triumph of God's love over fear"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Hendrickson Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Now in her nineties, retired nurse and missionary Arlene Schuiteman is quiet, seemingly timid. She does not desire attention or fame. However, she has years of stories to tell about rambling across the fields of her Iowa family farm, settling on a Sudanese riverbank, climbing through the rugged hollers of Kentucky, and being swept away to the western mountains of Ethiopia. Iowa Ethiopia looks back at Arlene's work as a missionary nurse in Ethiopia...
Author
Publisher
Hendrickson Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sioux Center Sudan is the story of a missionary nurse's eight years on a tiny mission station in Nasir, Sudan, during the 1950s--the golden age of missions in America. There, Arlene faced immense challenges and yet learned to trust God in spite of the difficulties, including her unwanted expulsion from the country in 1963. Only decades later would she finally see the fruit of her work.
Author
Publisher
Independently published
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"I began writing this account twenty-eight years ago, after returning from a grain distributing mission into Chernobyl, Ukraine. Our group was made up of people belonging to our Christian Reformed Churches in Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota and represented under the Justice for All Organization. After completing about one half of our experience, for whatever reasons, I laid my notes and manuscript aside and did not finish. Now, in 2021, as I struggle...
20) Force of nature
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Having hidden the truth about a past colleague's violation, former Special Forces agent Nate Romanowski is targeted by a determined killer who threatens Joe Pickett's life as part of a violent plot.
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