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Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age 27, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling to medical missions in Africa. Risking her own health, she moved to Togo, West Africa - ranked by the United Nations as the least happy country in the world - to care for sick and suffering patients. Serving without pay in a mission hospital, she pondered the intersection of faith and medicine in her quest to help make the world "well".

Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his mission's call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign missions, she was sure God had the wrong number. His call conflicted with her own dreams, demanded credentials she didn't have, and required courage she couldn't seem to find. She promised to follow where God led, but she never thought the road would lead to a Mayan village on a Guatemalan mountainside.

A single woman missionary, Becky Ruland, vividly writes about death defying adventures in communist nations where she lived for 14 years. From the challenges of learning Russian to understanding how to live cross-culturally in spiritually dark lands, Becky's words tell the stories of real people.

Carefully leveled text engages young listeners in learning about how construction workers help their community. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

In a remote valley north of Kabul, in August 2010, American peacemaker Dan Terry and nine other aid workers were attacked and killed in an event that made worldwide headlines. Why would one man take his family, follow faith and calling into the political and religious maelstrom of Afghanistan, and through years of war and strife believe he could make a difference? In Making Friends among the Taliban, childhood friend Jonathan Larson retraces Dan's nearly 40 years in Afghanistan, and through interviews and eye-witness accounts, relays Dan's incredible way of daily living.

Everyone's a New Yorker on Thanksgiving Day, when young and old rise early to see what giant new balloons will fill the skies for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Who first invented these "upside-down puppets"? Meet Tony Sarg, puppeteer extraordinaire!

Miriam Therese Winter, an award-winning musician and four-time Catholic Book Award-winner, shares her experiences of becoming a Sister, working with starving children in Ethiopia and with refugees in Cambodia, of exploring the mysteries of India and the wonders of God in her own backyard, of having breast cancer and having hope. She also illumines new aspects of community, Eucharist, the word and spirit, water and the stars, spiritual blessedness, and much more.

Riley Unlikely is the inspiring story of Riley Banks, who first traveled to Kenya at age 13, and has been back every year since, bringing backpacks of school supplies and hygiene kits for young girls, developing relationships and friendships, and is currently, as a young millennial, raising money to build a complete learning complex in Kibwezi, Kenya for those who have nothing.

The stories in the chapters that follow aren't chronological. They're not a history of how I found myself living on the side of a mountain in Mexico, and I'm not sure that would interest anyone but my mother and her friends anyway. Instead, I've mined my journals for those moments when God used the very people I thought I was in Mexico to lead, to lead me instead. Time and again I've been led to trust God, with my little mustard seed of faith, to see how he not only shows up in our circumstance - but he shows off!

In diesem Hörbuch geht es um zehn Menschen, die Gott mit Treue und Hingabe als Missionare gedient haben. Sie hinterließen auf der Erde eine breite Spur des Segens und sind bis heute ein Ansporn, sich für Gottes Sache engagiert und unbeirrt einzusetzen. Um diese Personen handelt es sich: Hans Egede (1686-1758), David Brainerd (1718-1747), William Carey (1761-1834), Henry Martyn (1781-1812), Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), Robert Moffat (1795-1883), Johannes Meyer (1814-1847).

Living every day with zest hinges on following ten principles which apply equally to everyone. No matter how much money you have, your level of education, occupation, age, or where you live - the principles work if you stick with them. Their roots have been established over generations and stress-tested during times of war, prosperity, triumph, and adversity. Begin living more zestfully. It's never too late to start. Author Kalman Magyar has a remarkably eccentric skill set and atypical background.

A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the "ground level" of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys' Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America's farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops.

En su época, sus obras, entre las que destaca la inolvidable “Casa de muñecas”, sumieron en el escándalo a la rígida sociedad victoriana de la época al cuestionar el modelo de familia imperante y la organización de una sociedad donde el hombre parecía dueño de todo.

Life is short, and the clock is ticking. It’s time to get moving! More than ever, the world needs exceptional people with the courage to deliver their gifts in a positive way. Only Dead Fish Go With the Flow offers fresh perspectives on being your higher self, so you can fearlessly harness the power of going against the flow. Whether you want to start your life over or you are just starting out, prioritize your passions to find true inner peace, relentless success, and emotional fulfillment.

What happened in the 1990s at Hope, and is still happening, is nothing short of remarkable and spectacular—a dramatic and massive work of the Holy Spirit producing conversions and spiritual renewal and a call to missions and Christian ministry on a grand scale.

Ollie L. Jefferson (Ph.D., Howard University) eloquently illustrates the dramatic depiction of HERstory. Dr. Ollie L. Jefferson is a teacher, scholar, and artist who creatively imparts her life lessons through authentic portrayals of over a dozen personas through original narrative. Her voice as a teen entering womanhood—the time when the mind starts actions producing life-changing decisions—sets the stage in this coming-of-age narrative.

This audiobook is a history of my father, Giles Holtom’s life. He was a member of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Giles told me and my brothers these wild, imaginative and exciting stories as children, sitting at the dinner table. I believed them because, well, I was seven at the time, and he was my dad. It was only in later life, when I retold the stories to other people, that I realized their inherent lack of believability. So it was down to me to investigate the details of his life and the places he visited.

Con agudo ingenio, rigor intelectual e intensa ironía, este filósofo galés expone con agradable sencillez e igual profundidad su pensamiento acerca del mundo. Quince ensayos, escritos entre 1928 y 1935, forman el compendio de una obra deslumbrante que merece la atención general.

Uno de los talentos musicales más importantes de la historia. Nacido en 1770, rebelde, infatigable, genial y ¡sordo!, es considerado el último gran representante del clasicismo vienés (después de Haydn y Mozart). Su obra imperecedera (donde destacan colosales sus inmortales nueve sinfonías) ha sido aclamada por los críticos de todas las épocas.

Karol Josef Wojtyla, nombre verdadero del recordado Papa, es con seguridad una de las figuras más queridas e importantes del Siglo XX. Pocos como él tuvieron el carisma, la persistencia y la vitalidad para hacer de la debilitada Iglesia Católica, un movimiento de alcance religioso mundial. Accesible, conciliador y un talento de la diplomacia espiritual, su legado aún persiste en el corazón de sus fieles.