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1) Hero tales
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996-<c2001 >
Language
English
Description
Presents biographies of missionaries, evangelists, and other Christian heroes who worked courageously to share the Gospel with others.
Author
Language
English
Description
She feels God nudging her toward ministry, but what options are there for a young single woman? Emily Evans has a hard time getting herself to class on time, much less figuring out God's will for her life. Then, to her surprise, she feels that God is calling her into full-time Christian service. She expects the Lord will also provide her with a companion to share her life and ministry, but Emily does not want to marry any of the available young men....
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection
"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Poisonwood Bible established Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of the National Book
...5) Hawaii
Author
Language
English
Description
This epic novel traces the origins and history of the islands of Hawaii, from their volcanic birth, through the first arrivals of humans from Polynesia, followed by European sailors and missionaries, then Chinese and Japanese laborers, to the modern blending of cultures.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral...
Author
Publisher
Hendrickson Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Shadow of the Almighty is a modern classic story of faithfulness, obedience, and martyrdom. It is the best-selling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador. Shadow of the Almighty has inspired Christians since its first publication in 1958. Elisabeth Elliot makes full use of Jim?s revealing diaries to fill in the details of a life completely committed to God?s service. This...
Author
Publisher
T. Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his missions 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. From the...
13) Honor bound
Author
Series
Love and honor (Bridgeman) volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It may seem odd to seek peace by moving to a war-torn African country, but for medical missionary Dr. Cynthia Myers, it provided a way to escape a shallow life of unearned wealth, a philandering fiancé, and a father now square in the public eye as vice president of the United States. At least here she knows her work and life have meaning. But all that is thrown into chaos when she fails to save the life of a local warlord's mortally wounded son....
14) Tongues of fire
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
Description
Stories of Christian missionaries from St. Paul to the present.
18) Mr. Fortune
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes (available from New York Review Books), appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book of- the-Month Club selection. Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, her second, followed a year later. The Salutation was the title novella of a 1932 collection. According to...
20) Beaded hope
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
2011 Carol Award winner for Women's Fiction from ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Four American women, all with their own challenges, embark on a mission trip to South Africa. Their lives are changed as they encounter a group of South African women who suffer from AIDS yet demonstrate great joy and faith in the face of overwhelming adversity. When the Americans discover the amazing beadwork that has been taught to generations of women in...
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