640. Mission Videos and Audio

VIDEOS AND AUDIO MISSIONS MESSAGES

If you know of videos to add to this list, mention them in the Comments section below.

Global Recordings Network – several short videos, most under 2 minutes. 

God’s Story from Creation to Eternity  Presents a summary of the Bible from Creation to Eternity 

Joshua Project has about 25 short mission videos (ranging from 1 minute to 12 minutes) 

        

Mission videos to watch with your family as you travel or visit during Christmas. After each video, we suggest talk about what you’ve seen. One of our source pages suggested we ask, “What did you learn from watching the video?” and “How does God want you to respond to what you learned?” 

Here’s the list: (from Brigada)

Café 1040 (3:49) 

Unreached people groups (1:54) 

Tears of the Saints (6:39) 

Church Planting Movements (5:52) 

Who are the Unreached? (by Piper) (3:21) 

The Lost: Unreached people of Asia (6:13)

         

Live Dead 

          

Domestic Ministries vs Frontier Missions – John Piper (4:34) 

          

“Doing Missions When Dying Is Gain”- John Piper- audio and text: (50:11) 

         

Nik Ripken teachings- audio: (several stories/messages each, about 11 mins long)

          

Biographies ofmissionaries and others- John Piper audio and text: 

                

Cross Conference 2013 videos audios

         

Famous missions quotes to read and discuss as a family:

             

Missions videos to watch and discuss as a family

        

Prayer reminders for unreached people groups

        

Reaching the unreached through Facebook written instructions and training videos         

        

YouTube worship videos with lyrics for family worship

   

John Piper - Should the risk of danger keep me from doing missions?

         

625. Exhorting - challenging Books

BOOKS THAT WILL CHALLENGE YOU

These books deal with the crucial issues of life. They will help you grow in your faith, grow in your vision, help you see what the need of the world is and where we fit into God's plan to spread the news of His love through Jesus Christ

1. Wanted: World Christians - Herbert Kane.
2. In the Gap: What it means to be a world Christian - David Bryant. Bryant challenges every Christian to answer two questions: "Will I stand in the gap? and "In what part of the gap will I stand?" God's sovereignty ultimately determines how the answer to those two questions will be acted out in each believer's life.

3. The Great Omission: A Biblical Basis for world Evangelism - Robertson McQuilkin. Respected missions thinker Robertson McQuilkin answers the question, "How is it―with so many unreached peoples, there are so few Christians going?" He investigates the reasons so few attempt to carry the message of Christ to the multitudes who have never heard of him.

4. A Mind For Missions - Paul Borthwick. Discover 10 building blocks for sensitizing yourself or your small group to needs of missions. From prayer and giving to current events and lifestyle choices, learn practical ways of sharpening your world vision, growing your concern for missions, and sharing the gospel. (paperback and kindle.)
 

5. Six Dangerous Questions - Paul Borthwick. Transform Your View of the World. How do you see the world? As lots of great vacation spots? As millions of people with problems too big to imagine? Missionary Paul Borthwick just might expand your view--or even explode it. He asks six dynamite questions that challenge you to look more closely at other countries, other cultures, other ethnic groups and other ways of acting on your faith.

6. Give Up Your Small Ambitions - Michael Griffiths.
 

7. What On Earth Are You Doing? - Michael Griffiths. What does it mean to be a missionary in the world today. Dr. Griffiths challenges those who may have not seriously thought about missions before, confronting them with the prospects of a life spent in cross-cultural missionary service.

8. Taking Our Cities for God: How to break spiritual strongholds - John Dawson. You are in the middle of an invisible spiritual war! Explore strategies for faith and prayer that can win the battle!

9. The Urban Christian: effective ministry in today's urban world - Ray Bakke. There are millions of opportunities for the gospel. With half of the world's five billion people in cities, there is almost no end to the exciting challenges that await us. Ray Bakke has been there.
 

10. Out of the Comfort Zone - George Verwer. Mission agencies have different strategies, and even within a mission or church there can be tension and division over strategy and details of how things should be done. Must we be so dogmatic on matters that the Bible is not clear about? Can't we accept that God works in different ways among different groups of people?
 

11. The World At your Doorstep: A Handbook for International Student ministry - Lawson Lau. An excellent account by an international student studying in the US about how Christians can minister to international students. Its great strength is a lengthy discussion of the experience of culture shock, and more generally of the difficulties faced by a student setting foot in a foreign land to start school.
 

12. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor - Steve Corbett. Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it.
 

13. The Hole In Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? - Richard Stearns. Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins―or does God expect more?

14. What Do You Say To A Hungry World? - Stan Mooneyham.

15. The Great Omission - Steve Saint. In this powerful call for the inclusion of indigenous believers in the Great Commission, Steve Saint shows how current missions strategies have unwittingly harmed the indigenous church and kept millions of believers from fulfilling their roles in God's Kingdom—and millions of others from hearing the Good News. (papeback and kindle.)

16. Western Christians in Global Mission: What’s the Role of the North American Church? – Paul Borthwick. Some think the day of the Western missionary is over. Some are wary that American mission efforts may perpetuate an imperialistic colonialism. Some say that global outreach is best left to indigenous leaders. Others simply feel that resources should be focused on the home front. Is there an ongoing role for the North American church in global mission?

620 Encouraging - Inspirational Books

Encouraging (Inspirational Books)

There is nothing more inspirational than the stories of missionaries and biographies of great missions leaders who sacrificed everything to go out and spread the gospel

1. Through Gates Of Splendor – Elizabeth Elliott. The true story of five young missionaries who were savagely killed while trying to establish communication with the Auca Indians of Ecuador. The story is told through the eyes of Elisabeth Elliot, the wife of one of the young men who was killed. (21 formats and editions)

2. The Peace Child – Don Richardson. An Unforgettable Story of Primitive Jungle Treachery in the 20th Century. In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals, who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. (11 formats and editions)

3. Eternity In Their Hearts – Don Richardson. Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World. Has the God who prepared the gospel for all people groups also prepared all people groups for the gospel?

4. Bruchko – Bruce Olson. What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then world of missions. (13 formats and editions)

5. The Insanity of God – Nik Ripken. The Insanity of God is the personal and lifelong journey of an ordinary couple from rural Kentucky who thought they were going on just your ordinary missionary pilgrimage, but discovered it would be anything but.

6. On the Crest Of the Wave: Becoming a World Christian – C. Peter Wagner. Wagner makes a very good case on missions and the power of the Spirit of God.

7. The Church Is Bigger Than You Think – Patrick Johnstone. Johnstone shares his passion for mission with us, showing us that the Church is bigger than we think in terms of Time, Size and Structure. The book has emerged from years of ministry to Christian workers and leaders and seminars.

8. David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story – Stephen Tompkins. Readers of popular history and biographies of inspiring history makers will find this an honest and balanced account of the real man behind the Victorian icon.

9. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya – Ruth Tucker. A Biographical History of Christian Missions by Ruth A. Tucker is readable, informative, gripping, and above all honest. It helps readers understand the life and role of a missionary through real life examples of missionaries throughout history. (Irian Jaya is now called West Papua. It is a province of Indonesia.)

10. Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret – Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor. A spiritual biography of the "father of modern missions,"; Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret poses one question: What empowered Hudson Taylor's ministry in China? The answer is unfolded in these pages.

11. C.T. Studd: Cricketer and Pioneer – Norman P. Grubb. The definitive biography on the life of C.T. Studd, the founder of WEC International.

12. The Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson – Courtney Anderson. On February 12, 1812, Ann and Adoniram Judson sailed from Salem aboard the brig Caravan as two of the first missionaries to go out from North America. Watching the shoreline disappear from view, they could not have foreseen the impact of their journey on the future of the Christian world mission

13. The Legacy of William Carey – Vishal & Ruth Mangalwadi. Historians call him the father of modern missions. He was a cobbler in England. While mending shoes, he taught himself Greek and Hebrew. He made a leather globe and studied about the unreached in India, called the heathen in his day. In 1792, he founded what later became the Baptist Missionary Society. His most famous quote is “Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.” He lived up to his motto and translated the Bible into several languages of India. Amazon.com has several books about him.

14. God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew. As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler, has awed and inspired millions.

15. Amazing Stories from Global Recordings Network – Allan Starling. Down through the centuries, storytelling has been an effective way to communicate. It was Jesus’ most common form of teaching. Oral learners use stories as their primary way of communicating and teaching. GRN’s motto is “Telling the Story of Jesus in Every Language.” The amazing stories span seventy five years of changing technology

16. End of the Spear by Steve Saint. Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe asks him to help them, Steve, his wife, and their teenage children move back to the jungle. There, Steve learns long-buried secrets about his father's murder, confronts difficult choices, and finds himself caught between two worlds. (9 formats and editions)
 

17. Famous Missionaries: From East to West and Back – James Gilchrist Lawson. An illustrated introduction to 30 famous missionaries, from St. Paul to the 20th Century (includes William Carey, David Livingstone, Hudson Taylor, Jonathan Goforth and more)

18. Five Pioneer Missionaries – John Thornbury. (paperback) Henry Martyn, John G. Paton, John Eliot, David Brainerd and William Chalmers Burns left home, family and love for the sake of Christ and to spread his good news. The narratives of their monumental labours and sufferings and their strong longings to see Christ glorified in the salvation of the nations make awe-inspiring and God-honouring reading.

19. David Brainerd – John Piper.  Will Inspire, Challenge, and Amaze. Admit it: How much do you really know about the life of David Brainerd? Expelled from college, then sent on an amazing journey of service to the King, “David Brainerd: May I Never Loiter on My Heavenly Journey!” is John Piper story-telling at its best. And amazingly, it’s free! 

615. Enlightening - Informative Books

Enlightening 
Informative Books

These books are educational and enlightening. They help us to understand what missions is all about.

Informative books on Missions

1. Introducing World Missions – A. Scott Moreau. A Biblical, Historical and Practical Survey provides readers with a broad overview of the biblical, theological, and historical foundations for missions. It considers personal and practical issues involved in becoming a missionary, the process of getting to the mission field, and contemporary challenges a mission worker must face. 

2. A Biblical Theology of Missions – George W. Peters. This exhaustive theology of missions focuses on theory and biblical mandates for missions as a vital part of theology. George Peters, a foremost missions authority, considers both liberal and conservative views, although his own stance is solidly evangelical. 

3. Let The Nations Be Glad – John Piper. This book has become a modern missions classic. A trusted resource for thousands of missionaries, pastors, church leaders, and laypeople, it provides a biblical basis for missions and worship. This third edition has been expanded to include timely new material on the prosperity gospel. 4.

4. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission – David J. Bosch.  an excellent guide to study the biblical view on mission, the historical development of the mission concepts, and the variety of contemporary missionary views.
5. Perspectives On A World Christian Movement: Reader and Study Guide – Ralph Winter. Writings from more than 150 mission scholars and practitioners portray the history and anticipate the potential of the global Christian movement. Every one of the 170 articles and sidebars offers practical wisdom enabling Christians to labor together in bold, Biblical hope to finish the task of seeing that Christ is named and followed among all the peoples of the earth.


6. Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation – Patrick Johnstone. Operation World, the definitive global prayer handbook, has been used by more than a million Christians to pray for the nations. Now in its 7th edition, it has been completely updated and revised by Jason Mandryk with a team of missionaries and researchers, and it covers the entire populated world.

7. Christian Mission in the Modern World – John R. W. Stott. In this classic book, John Stott shows that Christian mission must encompass both evangelism and social action. He begins with careful definitions of five key terms--mission, evangelism, dialogue, salvation andconversion. Then, through a thorough biblical exploration of these concepts, Stott provides a model for ministry to people's spiritual and physical needs alike.

8. Understanding Church Growth – Donald McGavran. In this missionary classic, first published in 1970, Donald A. McGavran skillfully combines theological convictions, empirical research, sociological principles, and spiritual insights to mold a paradigm for effective evangelism strategy both at home and abroad.

9. A History Of Christian Missions – Stephen Neill. A History of Christian Missions traces the expansion of Christianity from its origins in the Middle East to Rome, the rest of Europe and the colonial world, and assesses its position as a major religious force worldwide.

10. A Concise History of Christian World Mission: A Panoramic View of Missions from Pentecost to the Present – Herbert Kane.

11. The Making Of A Missionary – Herbert Kane

12. The Gospel In A Pluralist Society – Leslie Newbigin How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity, and cultural relativism? Should Christians encountering today's pluralist society concentrate on evangelism or on dialogue? How does the prevailing climate of opinion affect, perhaps infect, Christians' faith?

13. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s Or Ours? – Roland Allen. In little more than ten years St. Paul established the Church in four provinces of the Empire, Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia and Asia. Before AD 47 there were no churches in these provinces; in AD 57 St. Paul could speak as if his work there was done, and could plan extensive tours into the far west without anxiety lest the churches which he had founded might perish in his absence for want of his guidance and support.

14. Cultural Anthropology – Paul Hiebert. This introduction to the field of cultural anthropology from a Christian perspective exposes students to the excitement and significance of human history and culture.

15. Case Studies in Missions – Paul G. and Frances F. Hiebert. The case studies in this book deal with a wide range of problems: idols and ancestors, women and men, traditional customs, sickness and death, finances and bribery, conversion and theology, walls that divide people, church and mission structures, church/state relationships, and everyday problems of missionary life.

16. Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally: An introduction to Missionary Communication – David Hesselgrave.

17. Contextualization: Meanings, Methods, and Models – David Hesselgrave and Edward Rommen. This classic textbook brings together the meanings, proposals, and tasks involved in contextualization.

18. Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships – Lingenfelter and Mayers. the authors demonstrate that Jesus needed to learn and understand the culture in which he lived before he could undertake his public ministry. The authors examine how this can help us better understand what it means to establish relationships of grace with those from different cultural and social backgrounds.

19. A Biblical Theology of Missions – George Peters. This exhaustive theology of missions focuses on theory and biblical mandates for missions as a vital part of theology. George Peters, a foremost missions authority, considers both liberal and conservative views, although his own stance is solidly evangelical..

20. The Master Plan of Evangelism, Robert E. Coleman. "Few books have had as great an impact on the cause of world evangelization in our generation as Robert Coleman's The Master Plan of Evangelism."--Billy Graham

21. Missions In the Third Millennium, Stan Guthrie. This up-to-date volume offers insights to help students, churches, missionaries, agencies, and Christians from outside the West grasp the big picture and take practical steps for more effective involvement.

22. Cities: Missions’ New Frontier – Roger Greenway & Timothy Monsma. As cities continue to expand, Christ calls the church to bring the gospel to these centers of population, culture, and political power.

23. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity – Philip Jenkins. continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

24. What Cross-Cultural Workers Ought to Know. This book is for people serving in limited access countries. It has been revised and expanded so that the e-book now has 69 chapters in its 430 pages. It is basically the one written for missionaries, but with no mention of missionaries or missions; however, it does mention Christianity and quotes Scripture. If you know people serving in such places, you may want to send them the link or download the book and send it to them as an attachment. The book is available to download free of charge as .doc, .pdf, or .zip files for your computer and as .mobi or .epub files for your Kindle or Nook.

25. A Beginner's Guide to Crossing Cultures: Making Friends in a Multicultural World – Patty Lane. How do you befriend an international student or a new coworker from a different country? What can you expect when your church building is shared with a congregation from another cultural group? Why are your words and actions sometimes misinterpreted by others?

26. Pray for the World – by Molly Wall. To prepare the book, Operation World Researchers asked Christian leaders in every land, “How should the body of Christ throughout the world be praying for your country?” The outcome is indeed exciting. Buy it at Amazon…

27. I think God wants me to be a Missionary In the summer, thousands of young and not-so-young people will travel to another country for a summer of service. A few weeks or months later they will return home. Many will say, “I think God wants me to be a missionary!” That is the time for them to read a book by that title. It will help them sort through many of the issues they will face when considering a longer term commitment. It is available at

28. PathWays to Global Understanding (new edition 2014) Biblical, historical, strategic, and cultural dimensions of God's plan for the nations. An in-depth study with writings from some of the most respected authorities on the subject of missions.

29. Mission Smart – David Frazier (Kindle and paperback) It costs a lot to train, send out, support and care for people in cross-cultural ministry; however, the costs are immeasurable when these workers don’t learn the language and culture well, fail to be effective and return home in trouble spiritually and emotionally. Mission Smart addresses serious gaps in the mission mobilization process.

30. Equipping for Missions – Daniel W. Bacon. This book is great for individuals as they begin their journey in missions. It’s an important tool in any church's efforts in preparing its mission candidates.

31. The Future of the Global Church – Patrick Johnstone. Johnstone combines history, demographics, religion, and art to combine a coffee table presentation without equal. He places special emphasis on unreached people groups — with lots of color, graphs, charts, numbers, and of course, maps. Your prayer life won’t find a bigger-picture, higher-level blimp shot of the world. Available in hardback, as an ebook, and as a digital collection of files. For More details:    

32. A Wind In The House Of Islam: How God Is Drawing Muslims Around The World To Faith In Jesus Christ -- David Garrison.(Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Book.) Dr. David Garrison's global survey of Muslim movements to Christ reveals that we are in the midst of the greatest turning of Muslims to Christ in history.

33. Ask a Missionary: Time-Tested Answers from Those Who've Been There Before. by John McVay 
Paperback book: 224 pages. Paperback and Kindle
"This book is like having a dozen missionary friends at your side, coaching you with kindness and clarity. Who knew wisdom could be so encouraging?" Steve Hawthorne, Co-editor Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

34. Well Connected - Phil Butler.  This book helps any believer turn the ideal into reality. It provides solid grounding in the principles of partnership, abundant case histories, and empowering "how to" suggestions for lay person and ministry leader alike.