Posts tagged missions

Many biographers have published works on the life of William Carey, and most of them are incredibly dry. But not this one!

In Goforth of China, Rosalind Goforth traces her husband’s transformation from a humble Ontario farm boy, to a misunderstood Bible college student, to a fruitful missionary, and finally to an impassioned revivalist.

This biography of Gladys Aylward stands at the top of the list of books about this unusual parlourmaid-turned-missionary.

Ann Judson was the first American woman to join her husband in overseas missionary work. Her endurance and courage in the face of unthinkable trials and suffering will inspire you.

“This is my ministry.” At first blush, your words seem to ring with confidence in the Lord’s call (1 Timothy 1:12). You have a work …

If you want to read harrowing adventures of missionaries running from cannibals, then the autobiography of John Paton is the missionary biography for you. However, this book contains much more than just action.

During the turbulent colonial era, a sickly British boy, named Hudson Taylor, comes to Christ and hears God’s call to China. Without the backing of the aristocratic society of his day, he turns to God alone…

Truly, there is nothing new under the sun. As I read the biography of John Livingstone Nevius, I stumbled across a letter he wrote to …

Only in her early twenties, Darlene married a missionary and moved to Indonesia only to find herself in the path of the Japanese invasion of southeast Asia during World War II. Torn from her new husband and incarcerated in a women’s interment camp, Darlene learned to trust the Lord…

We know how Paul applied “being all things to all men” and “laying aside our rights” for the sake of the Gospel. We now need to consider ways that we as cross-cultural missionaries might apply these principles to our lives today.