Mission Ministry

The Book of Acts is a great story of the early church Jesus started and left in the tiny nation of Israel. He left his unlikely group of disciples with the enormous task of spreading what they knew about Jesus and their experience with him to the entire world. They were successful and not only reached their world, but generations into the future. Approximately 2,000 years after he returned to Heaven, the church exists in places like South America, Asia, and the remotest islands of the Earth.

Godsend is a toolkit to help you form new Christian communities with people who were not previously attending church. The book is based on the wisdom of many practitioners over the past 20 to 30 years. It contains loads of stories, advice, and frameworks to help you join a growing company of people who are bringing discipleship, mission, and church together in their everyday lives.

Through his own death in 1995, author Micah McElveen was challenged to think differently about purpose, and now challenges us to do the same. McElveen discovered that purpose was never designed to be a destination, but rather a bridge connecting you to the place where you are designed to make a difference. McElveen’s unique approach to narrative engulfs listeners in thought-provoking views on poverty, success, life, and death. Dying for Purpose will encourage you to truly live.

Promises in the Dark by Dr. Eric McLaughlin strengthens the hearts of listeners to persevere in God’s calling to walk with those in need. As a missionary doctor in Africa, McLaughlin knows how walking closely with those who suffer and bearing others’ burdens can easily lead to burnout or cynicism - unless we find the path to perseverance that the Lord provides. McLaughlin explores how to endure in such a yet-to-be-redeemed world as ours, which is full of tragedy and heartache, pointing to God’s promises.

When a perfect storm of personal, professional, and natural disaster threw Mike Mantel into a dark night of the soul, he embarked on a journey through his own life and around the world to rediscover God's presence through the diverse body of Christ. In Thirsting for Living Water, Mantel invites listeners to join him on this adventure and open their eyes to their own stories of God's faithfulness.

Hay naciones que duplican la tecnología capturando y deconstruyendo las armas avanzadas de otras naciones. Los chefs emulan las obras maestras culinarias de otros deconstruyendo sus platos, a veces para replicarlos y otras para crear nuevas recetas. Los padres jóvenes observan los métodos de crianza de los hijos de las parejas mayores con éxito, confiando en poder aprender los secretos para criar una descendencia madura, sabia y piadosa.

Conundrums are the hurdles in our race to complete the great commission. They can make you run slower or trip you, so the race is never finished. Thus, the ideal solution is to remove the hurdles altogether. A conundrum is a “confusing and difficult problem or question”, which is often a roadblock to progress until and unless it is confronted and resolved. In this audiobook, I hope to address four primary categories, which in my opinion, have done damage to our efforts of fulfilling the Lord’s direct mandate.

In both life and ministry, it is very easy to let discouragement and circumstances beat you. We must make a daily choice to get the victory that Christ gives to each of us. We don’t have to just survive our life, our marriage, or our ministry. We can thrive because he helps us overcome the greatest battles!

In this upside-down world, when the have and have-nots are at war; when the privileged and underprivileged contend for resources, man fails to look at what’s truly important: eternity. In America, the fight for equal rights, better treatment under the law, social justice, and income inequality permeate our dialogues. Now more than ever, people are vying for power and influence. Yet too few in this country actually consider the greatest power of all, known to millions of believers worldwide as the kingdom of God.

On an inky moonlit night, in Dupax Del Norte, an Igorot man would share with me the legend of the Ayturi tree, the symbol of the kings of Ituy. A Tuy was the Igorot king who embodied the ideal of the deep-rooted Ayturi tree. My religion sent me to Ituy to convert the Igorot and Cagayanese people to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, it was my adventure to Ituy that converted me to the way of the Tuy.

Nations duplicate technology by capturing and deconstructing the advanced weapons of other nations. Chefs emulate the culinary masterpieces of others by deconstructing their dishes - sometimes to replicate them and other times to create new recipes. Young parents watch the child-rearing methods of successful older couples, hoping that they may learn the secrets of rearing mature, wise, and godly offspring.

God calls each of us to be messengers of the gospel. In Peru Is Calling, author Robbie Freeman Shugart invites you to experience her international ministry trips to Peru complete with travel tips. Not only will you discover things to do in cities like Lima, Trujillo, Callao, Cajamarca, and Cusco, you will also see how simple it is to carry Jesus with you wherever you go.

Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname "God's Harvard". Most of these students are home-schoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the Christian elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment, and science to wage the battle to take back a godless nation.

In the early 20th century, a man in Pakistan happened to walk by a small Christian chapel. Inside the preacher was speaking about the love of God. The man, a physician, took the same route the next day and stopped to listen. This was the beginning of a decades long commitment by the doctor to bring more people to faith in Jesus.

There is nothing more important in this life or the one to come than an intimate connection with Jesus. Unfortunately, we have thousands of voices distracting us, and all too often we listen to them. We confuse proximity to God with intimacy with God and are content with a Christian - branded life yet miss out on what we were created for: knowing God intimately.

Christians have been called to care for the community they serve as “salt and light”. The concept of mission work in the Church seems to be more focused on “the ends of the earth” than our “Jerusalem”. Our “Jerusalem” represents our immediate community or society. This book calls on Christians to look for ministry opportunities outside the walls of the church building, especially in the workplaces, that is, bring Jesus into their work lives.

Compelling stories by missionaries who serve in some of the hardest to reach parts of Asia Pacific. This devotional will inspire you to join countless others who devote themselves to praying, giving, and going to the ends of the earth.

As a Christian parent, you want your children to develop good character and godly wisdom. But how do you go beyond hoping and praying to teaching them ethical knowledge, practical skills, and virtuous habits? This innovative guide provides practical, effective ideas you can use to help your children build their faith and character in 50 ways, including engaging with the Bible and culture, interacting with God and others, making good decisions, becoming better learners, and managing conflict.

Filled with real-life stories and practical advice, Called to Care starts by helping you honestly assess your motivation to help - sometimes the wrong motivation sets the stage for an unsuccessful experience. From there, the book shows what adoption and foster care really look like in a variety of situations, from domestic and international adoptions to short-term foster care and foster-to-adopt arrangements. Also included is how churches and individuals can minister to refugees.

Almost overnight, America's public schools have become morally toxic. They are especially poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith - ordinary families who value traditional morality and plain old common sense. Parents' first duty is to their children - to their intellect, their character, their souls. The facts on the ground point to one conclusion: Get out now.