Missions

People leaving prison; refugees; victims of abuse and prostitution. All struggle to find a home, to build relationships, to get back on their feet....

The gospel of Christ is a gospel of peace, yet Christianity has not escaped the specter of religious violence. The legacy of the church has not onl...

In the past, world mission in the Church of England largely meant working through independent Anglican agencies such as CMS and USPG. Today, the pi...

For the first time ever Tom Doyle, popular author and pastor to the unreached, is joined by his wife and ministry partner, JoAnn, to explore the in...

In 1943, nineteen-year-old Arlene Schuiteman began keeping a journal, which she continued her whole life, including thirty-four years of nursing an...

Build high-trust ministry partnerships that are effective and joy-filled We’ve all seen fundraising and giving done poorly, but how do we get it ri...

If 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...

For six decades, North American Mennonites have walked alongside African Independent Churches (AICs) as they have navigated their faith journey bet...

The area of community development provides a unique opportunity for the church to partner with God in his mission to see the world transformed. In...

Many believe that American Protestantism has long been divided into two groups: those concerned with the impact of religion in the public sphere an...

In Teology of Mission: A Concise Biblical Teology, J D Payne traces the theme of mission throughout Scripture Th e Bible is a story of God's missio...

We have a God-given responsibility to infiltrate the world, listening to the world's challenges, but also to bring our own challenge to the world b...

In recent years the term 'religious pluralism' has come to be used not only in a descriptive sociological sense but also as theologically prescript...

A great four-volume history presenting in comprehensive perspective, within the limits of a single narrative, the various attempts to plant and dev...

A great four-volume history presenting in comprehensive perspective, within the limits of a single narrative, the various attempts to plant and dev...

Moses, David, Joseph, Peter, Paul…these are just some of the well-known names of the Bible. They are the subject of countless sermons and stories t...

Chris Wright’s pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God, revealed that the typical Christian understanding of “missions” encompasses only a small p...

For a church to be considered mature an integrated approach between contextualization, discipleship and mission is required. Globally, the church i...

In The Greatest Missionary Generation: Inspiring Stories from around the World, Larry Sharp establishes the characteristics, challenges, successes,...

This accessible overview shows how the Bible--with its 66 books, dozens of authors, and multiple genres--comes together to provide an overarching s...

While the gospel is timeless truth, it enters into ever-changing and widely varied human contexts. The missionary who desires to meaningfully commu...

John Taylor’s most famous book is reminder that the Spirit urges us toward a communal humanity. Taylor’s is a message especially pertinent in an ag...

In this scripturally rich exploration, senior missiologist Craig Ott unpacks the mission statement of the church: to glorify God by multiplying tra...

Following Sherwood Lingenfelter's successful books on ministering, teaching, and leading cross-culturally (with combined sales of over 200,000 copi...

Representing the fruit of a lifetime of reflection and practice, this comprehensive resource helps teachers understand the way people in different ...

Subversive mission is submission—to God and local leaders. Subversive mission offers a new way forward for outsiders called to crosscultural minist...

Networked churches are the primary church planting force in evangelicalism today—but what makes them so effective, why do they remain so under-appr...

Going on a short-term missions trip can be a life- and faith-transforming experience. It can enrich the way we view the world. It can cause us to r...

The inspiring life of Jim Elliot, a missionary who was martyred in the jungles of Ecuador as he attempted to reach the Huaorani people with the gos...

The SCM Studyguide: Christian Mission explores the nature of Christian mission in contemporary post-modern society.It presents a range of answers f...

This book proposes to bring together three elements for the benefit of those researching practice in ministry and mission: * how to design research...

How does the church’s calling to take the whole gospel to the whole world manifest in contexts of poverty, injustice, and conflict? In this collect...

Essential teaching for every short- and long-term outreach participant & every church and mission agency that sends them. Peter Jordan's vita...

The gospel is for every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 7:9), but there is no single biblical or theological model for the relationship betwe...

The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five conferences ...

Contrary to popular sentiment, Christianity is not dull or out of touch but fresh, relevant, exciting, and contemporary. The Church is political be...

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century. The Basel Missi...

Strategic partnerships are on the rise around the world as denominations, organizations, local churches and individuals seek ways to work together ...

Every congregation needs to determine how it will organize to best proclaim the Gospel, administer the Sacraments, and care for its members. While ...

Most everything in the world has changed since the age of the “Greatest Missionary Generation,” which was an outpouring of missionaries following W...

Mission in Contemporary Scotland is the first book to fully examine the challenges and opportunities of Christian mission in contemporary Scotland....

The Father delights in his Son. This is the starting point of mission, its very core. The word 'mission' means 'sending'. But for many centuries ...