WEBSITES 

Here is a portal for connecting to lots of excellent mission agencies and terrific mission information:

www.mislinks.org 

Other websites worth visiting:

www.global-teams.org; 

www.heartstreamresources.com;

www.uscwm.org

BOOKS

 Introductory

 Paul Borthwick, A Mind for Missions: 10 Ways to Build Your World Vision (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1987).

David Bryant, In the Gap (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1979).

Meg Crossman (ed.), Perspectives Exposure: Discovering God’s Heart for All Nations and Our Part in His Plan (Seattle, WA: WYAM Publishing, 2003).

Patrick Johnstone, The Church is Bigger Than You Think (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1998).

Patrick Johnstone, Operation World (Various publishers and years; available in a CD version).

Scott Moreau, Gary Corwin, Gary McGee, Introducing World Missions (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004).

John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad: the Supremacy of God in Missions (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993).

Daphne Spraggett with Jill Johnstone, Window on the World (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2001).

John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1975).

Tom Telford, Missions in the 21^st Century (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1998).

Tom Telford, Today’s All-Star Missions Churches (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2001).

Missionary Care

 Leslie Andrews (ed.), The Family in Mission: Understanding and Caring for Those Who Serve (Palmer Lake, CO: Missionary Training International, 2004).

Joyce Bowers (ed.), Raising Resilient MKs: Resources for Caregivers, Parents and Teachers (Colorado Springs, CO: Association of Christian Schools International, 1998).

Kelly O’Donnell (ed.), Doing Member Care Well (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2002).

Neal Pirolo, Serving as Senders (San Diego, CA: Emmaus Road, 1991).

Neal Pirolo, The Reentry Team (San Diego, CA: Emmaus Road, 2000).

David Pollock and Ruth Van Reken, The Third Culture Kid Experience: Growing Up among Worlds (Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1999).

John Powell and Joyce Bowers (eds.), Enhancing Missionary Vitality: Mental Health Professions Serving Global Mission (Palmer Lake, CO: Missionary Training International, 2002).

William Taylor (ed.), Too Valuable to Lose: Exploring the Causes and Cures of Missionary Attrition (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1997).

Cross-Cultural Ministry

Duane Elmer, Cross-Cultural Conflict (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993).

Duane Elmer, Cross-Cultural Connections (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2002).

Bruce T Grindal and Frank A Salamone, Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Fieldwork and Friendship
(Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2006).

David Hesselgrave, Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally: An Introduction to Missionary Communication (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1991, Second Edition).

Paul Hiebert, Anthropological Insights for Missionaries (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1985).

Sherwood Lingenfelter, Marvin Mayers, Ministering Cross-Culturally (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1986).

Lianne Roembke, Building Credible Multicultural Teams (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2000).

Andrew Walls, The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2002).

History of Missions

George Hunter, The Celtic Way of Evangelism (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2000).

Phillip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

J. Herbert Kane, A Concise History of the Christian World Mission (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1978).

Stephen Neill, A History of Christian Mission (New York: Penguin Books, 1986, Second Edition).

Ruth Tucker, From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1983).

Andrew Walls, The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996).

Persecuted Church

Paul Marshall, Their Blood Cries Out (Waco, TX: Word, 1997).

Paul Marshall and Nina Shea, “The Talibanization of Nigeria: Sharia Law and Religious Freedom” (Washington, DC: Center for Religious Freedom, 2002).

Nina Shea, In the Lion’s Den (Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman, 1997).

Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude  (London: Associated University Presses, 1996).

[For a more detailed bibliography on the Persecuted Church, see Grant LeMarquand’s at www.episcopalchurch.org/1521_10097_ENG_HTM.htm]

Intermediate Reading

Roland Allen, Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?  (London: World Dominion Press, 1959).

Roland Allen, The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,1962).

David Garrison, Church Planting Movements (Midlothian, VA: WIGTake Resources, 2004).

Alan Neely, Christian Mission: A Case Study Approach (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997).

Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986).

Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995, Revised Edition).

Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season: Perspectives on Christian World Mission (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994).

Michael Pocock, Gailyn Van Rheenen, Douglas McConnel, The Changing Face of World Missions (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005).

Advanced Reading

Gerald Anderson (ed.), The Theology of the Christian Mission (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1961).

Peter Bolt, Mark Thompson, The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul’s Mission (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2000).

David Bosch, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1991).

Richard R. DeRidder, Discipling the Nations (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1971).

Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989).

James Spradley, The Ethnographic Interview (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Group, 1979).

John Stott (ed.), Making Christ Known: Historic Documents from the Laussane Movement, 1974-1989 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996).

William Taylor (ed.), Global Missiology for the 21^st Century: The Iguassu Dialogue (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2000).

Norman Thomas, Classic Texts in Mission and World Christianity (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995).

Geoffrey Wainwright, Lesslie Newbigin: A Theological Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Ralph Winter and Steven Hawthorne (eds.), Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1999, Third Edition).