World Missions

Every local church should be engaged with global missions, even if most individuals in the church aren't called to go overseas. But what does this engagement actually look like? How can local churches train, send, and support missionaries well? Unpacking principles from the Bible and applying them in the context of real life in a local church, this short guide is filled with practical steps and advice for supporting missionaries, forming international partnerships, sending short-term teams, and engaging with the nations here at home.

In early 1939, few Americans were thinking about the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families that were increasingly threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler's policies in Germany and Austria. But one ordinary American couple decided that something had to be done. Despite overwhelming obstacles - both in Europe and in the United States - Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus made a bold and unprecedented decision to travel into Nazi Germany in an effort to save a group of Jewish children.

JEREMY If he’s the sinner and she’s the saint, why does he need to save her? Jeremy Sinclair’s mission is simple: show up to Max’s wedding, deliver a killer best man toast, and fly back to the ends of the earth. The last thing he expects is to have Rachel begging him to take her with him.RACHEL Is he her way out, her brand new addiction, or the answer to all her prayers? Rachel Petersen has a secret that will shatter her spotless image. When Jeremy shows up, she finds in him her quickest escape from the lie of a life she created for herself. Will he see right through her and get her...

Crack secret agent first name Harry, last name Prince, full name Harry Prince is given another assignment to protect the world from international terrorism. Always a life or death assignment, he’s managed to come out on top every time. However, this new assignment is different. It seems to be compromised from the very start. An assassination attempt is made on him literally with his pants down, actually “off” to be completely accurate. He’s kidnapped on the way to a rendezvous and has his life threatened again, by another agent where there’s animosity from a the outcome of a ...

I’ve lived a warrior’s life defined by death, cage fights, and submission to my vampire master. So when commanded to infiltrate the underground fighting pits of Manhattan and retrieve a coveted tome, my mission takes priority. But that resolve is tested upon crossing paths with an infuriating werewolf who seeks the artifact for his own pack’s survival. Though we are sworn enemies, an electric attraction sparks between us that I find difficulty resisting. Noah's defiant spirit and the thrilling risk of our affair make me feel alive in ways I’ve never experienced. Compelled into a ...

Karen M. Masterson, a journalist turned malaria researcher, uncovers the complete story behind this dark tale of science, medicine and war. Illuminating, riveting and surprising, The Malaria Project captures the ethical perils of seeking treatments for disease while ignoring the human condition.

In Double Crossed, historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine.

Please Note: THE SIX first appear in DEATH MISSION: THE RULING CLASS and DEATH MISSION: INFILTRATION; by law all mutated children -- a natural consequence to the genetic tampering of food, plus environmental pollutions-- were thrown out of the Dome, to fend for themselves. It is the year 2088. The Fallen will stand with their rescuers, the rest of the Six, and the Thirteen to take a stand against the Collective... Two of the Six have given their lives. It is now up to The Fallen, sixty-seven of them, as they take on Elite of the Dome, and the Elite's enforcers--Savettes, an army of half-men...

It is the year 2088. The mutant children The Six, and their new allies, a lost group called The Thirteen, have reached the Dome. Now they have to infiltrate its defenses; or fall before the savage guards of the Dome-ers, the assimilated race of people who live a half-life, hooked up to computers 24-7, in service to the shadowy World Government, the Collective… As they race against time-- and against all odds, to rescue the Fallen-- the last remaining non-mutant children of their generation left in the Dome—one by one they are struck down as, it becomes increasingly clear –there is a ...

It is the year 2088. Six teens are making their way across America to retrieve “The Fallen", a tribe of children who are somehow the key to America’s future, because America is now ruled by an elite, who live off the energies of a permanent underclass--people who have become nothing more than mindless sources of food, fuel, pleasure and labor. To save The Fallen, the only children who can begin society over again, the Six must infiltrate and enter THE DOME, where the elite are stockaded from the rest of the world… DEATH MISSION: THE RULING CLASS DEATH MISSION: INFILTRATION DEATH ...

Step into the breathtakingly vast world beyond our known boundaries, and embark on an awe-inspiring journey with 'Beyond Our Solar System'. This exhilarating new eBook peels back the celestial curtain and invites you to explore the mysterious realm of the universe and its captivating inhabitants - exoplanets. With 'Beyond Our Solar System', voyage across the cosmic landscape through eleven meticulously crafted chapters. Each one dedicates itself to unravel an exciting dimension of space exploration backed by enriching scientific insights and cutting-edge research. The reader is taken on an ...

Charlie and his friends enter the God Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it’s God. Through their phone screens and high-tech glasses, the teens’ realities blur with a virtual world of creeping vines, smoldering torches, runes, glyphs, gods, and mythical creatures. When they accomplish a mission, the game rewards them with expensive tech, revenge on high-school tormentors, and cash flowing from ATMs. Slaying a hydra and drawing a bloody pentagram as payment to a Greek god seem harmless at first. Fun even.

April 1940: Nazi Germany has invaded neutral Norway. Fleeing north from their brutal blitzkrieg advance are three officers of the King's Guard - men who have been entrusted by the Norwegian King with a vitally important mission. The only military force which stands between the Nazi forces and total victory are the poorly equipped, undertrained squaddies of the British 148th Brigade. Among them is Sergeant Jack Tanner, recently returned from the Middle East. As the British are pushed back from Lillehammer, Sergeant Tanner and his patrol are left stranded in the mountains in the chaos of retreat.

Subversive mission is submission—to God and local leaders. Subversive mission offers a new way forward for outsiders called to crosscultural ministry by serving as humble alongsiders. Join Craig Greenfield on this inspiring journey in Asia and beyond as he rediscovers the fivefold missional gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher, and demonstrates how each of these must look radically different in a crosscultural context. Along the way, you'll discover your own missional type through the Missional Type Inventory and come face to face with the five most common pitfalls that Westerners face in crosscultural settings.

On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American co-pilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed the intelligence officer who, at the pre-dawn briefing at their base in southern Italy, confided that their mission that day would be a milk run. It was not....

As fierce fighting across Poland and the Baltics captures the world's attention, a single squadron of American F-16 pilots deployed to Ukraine must battle against overwhelming odds and impossible conditions to take the war to the Russians. Shot down behind enemy lines on a dangerous sortie in the skies over Kiev, rookie pilot Steve "Lone Wolf" McQuade is rescued by a group of Ukrainian refugees who are on a mission to rally patriotic resistance against the Russian invaders. With time fast running out, McQuade decides to help the refugees on their perilous journey.

At 13 years old, Singing Wind is captured in her Lakota village by a band of enemy Pawnee who take her as a virgin sacrifice. She escapes and wanders the Great Plains alone. How long can she survive?

We live in a multicultural society. But Christians often do not know how to engage those of other faiths. As a result, many Christians hesitate to talk about Christianity with others in any kind of evangelistic way. Jay Moon and W. Bud Simon unpack the intercultural dynamics that Christians need to understand when encountering people from different communities and cultural backgrounds.

In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy and sacramental life are in fact deeply missional. He explores the historic practices of the Christian church, demonstrating how they offer a holistic framework for everyday Christian discipleship and mission in the twenty-first century. The result is a book that not only invites all Christians back to the historic liturgy of the church, but also invites those already in liturgical churches to rediscover the missional life that has too often remained latent in their own traditions.

Based on years of research and interviews with Mayer himself, whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of 94, Return to the Reich is an enlightening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism.