Missionary Biography

The story of Hudson Taylor has inspired the lives of generations of Christians. Coming from humble origins and battling through great hardships to ...

In the 1970s, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge army transformed Cambodia into a nation-wide death camp. These years saw one of the worst periods of mas...

Mud, Bullets and Open Roads is the story of an ordinary life lived in obedience to God with extraordinary consequences. Through testing and opposit...

In 1957, newly-qualified nurse Lily Gaynor set sail for Guinea-Bissau to live among the Papel tribe. Tuberculosis, malaria and typhoid were rife. C...

The Heavenly Man has sold over 750,000 copies and has been published in more than 30 languages. How can someone who suffers so terribly find the b...

Born into the Dinka Bor tribe in war-torn South Sudan, Michael was ten years old when he began to lose movement in his legs. He and his family soon...

For the past 25 years, a small medical team have been working at a Christian hospital in Cameroon. In an area that poses significant security risks...

Rees Howells was a man of little worldly fame, yet through Norman Grubb's best-selling biography, his life story is known to millions. Born in a We...

A gripping, inspiring, true story of God at work in Russia and war-torn Chechnya in the 1990s. Paula O’Keefe, a petite, slender, British girl, fres...

Working as a nurse for 25 years in rural Zambia, 500 miles from the nearest town, Sandra’s faith was tested to the limits.   What was God’s purpose...

Irish-Nigerian Pamela Brown-Peterside is forty and burned out when she exchanges the intensity of an honourable public health career in New York Ci...

Inspired brings together the stories of eight very different individuals. Although their lives are unique, they all share the same thing: they are ...

A fresh new biography telling the remarkable story of Ruth and Billy Graham, endorsed by Billy Graham.

An ebullient, enthusiastic man with a passion for the underdog, Stuart Windsor has survived many critical situations. This is his story.

14 stories from Kenya and Malawi: unsung heroes and heroines of faith, vision and courage.

The story of an extraordinary property tycoon and of what happened to him after his young son fell ill.

The day he died, D. E. Hoste applied to Hudson Taylor for mission work in the China Inland Mission (Now Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Schofield'...

Killing Fields, Living Fields tells the story of the church in Cambodia from its birth, then on through the Khmer Rouge years — one of the most bar...

Previously published as 'My Heart in His Hands', this book is fully revised and updated and is the best modern biography of Ann Judson available. I...

'There is a God of justice in control - a God who is intimately involved in human pain and suffering.' Wendy recounts her journey from England to...

He loves the tango, was trained as a Chemist, and in his youth he had a regular girlfriend whom he planned to marry. For a pope, Francis has an unu...

The history of Christianity, the growth of the Church, is the history of its missionary efforts, its successes and failures.

In 1897, Tom Cochrane, a young doctor, arrived with his bride in Inner Mongolia, China’s northernmost territory. Three years later, after labouring...

The eighteenth century was a time of remarkable missionary activity. As the British Empire expanded around the world, Christian missionaries follow...

"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...

“As I was tearing up the road with the accelerator pushed to the floor, familiar landmarks flashing by me, a kind of mad exhilaration possessed me....

In May 1931, 100 people, of whom 70 were missionaries serving in Angola, Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia, met at Muchacha in the Congo, to give...

Protection. Prayer. Providence. People. People throughout history have shared stories to entertain, to inform, to inspire. Christ’s people do this...

This is edge-of-your-seat reading; a story about the adventure-filled life of aviator and missionary Nate Saint who was martyred in the jungles of ...

This is edge-of-your-seat reading, a story about the adventure-filled life of aviator and missionary Nate Saint who was martyred in the jungles of ...

David Brainerd lived a short life but in his four years as a missionary he was blessed with a period of revival amongst the Indians of New England.

Compelled by Love, the true story of the ministry of Heidi and Rolland Baker in the war-torn, poverty and disease-stricken country of Mozambique, c...

Rudyard Kipling’s poem, Eddi’s Service, from which this book takes its title, is a set of verses put into the mouth of Eddius Stephanus, St Wilfrid...

April Holden comes from St Helens, Merseyside. As a child she suffered from persistent ill health, and was both physically and emotionally fragile....

"The Lausanne congress of 1974 marked the widespread adoption of integral mission as essential to the evangelical witness of Christ in our world. E...

“a book that needs to be taken very seriously” — Philip North “challenging lessons for the modern church” — Michael Turnbull This is a radical and ...

What would compel a successful surgeon to give up his practice to move to Haiti and serve the poorest of the poor? The catastrophic earthquake tha...

Chitokoloki Mission Hospital is a remote but remarkable facility in the North-Western Province of Zambia. This book comes from a compilation of dai...

Among the annals of missionary service around the world are countless true stories of intrepid men and women. They braved innumerable dangers, toil...

What does it mean to be a missionary in the world today. Dr. Griffiths challenges those who may have not seriously thought about missions before, c...

‘I can stick anything for two years,’ she said and ended up staying forty-two. So said former OMF worker Miriam Davis, whose book ‘Utterly Amazed:...

Elisabeth Elliot colourfully and honestly describes the mysteries and difficulties of adapting to life as a new missionary in the Ecuadorian jungle...

David Brainerd’s missionary efforts among the Native Americans of colonial North America are legendary, largely due to Jonathan Edwards’s Account o...

In his Spiritual Unfolding of Bishop H. C. G. Moule, John Baird wrote, ‘No course of reading is more establishing than that of Christian biography ...