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The Missionary Stories Shelf - Smugglers, Martyrs, and the God Who Opens Eyes
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items Every shelf of Christian classics leans on this one: the Auca mission, a Volkswagen full of Bibles, a tribe that killed its killers' sons' friends and then heard the gospel from them. These stories built the modern missions movement, and they still s...
Sections
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The Classics
The Persecuted Church, Up Close
The Theology and the Senders
The Classics
Ecuador, the Amazon, the Iron Curtain: the founding stories.
Shadow of the Almighty is Elisabeth Elliot's life of her husband Jim - the Auca mission, the journals, the spear, and the widow who went back to the same tribe. The missionary biography all others are measured against.
Lives of Faith Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot, (Paperback)
Peace Child tells how Don Richardson found, inside Sawi culture itself, the picture of redemption - the peace child. It changed how missionaries read cultures, not just how they preach to them.
Peace Child, (Paperback)
Bruchko is Bruce Olson's impossible story - nineteen years old, captured by the Motilone, and a decades-long friendship that brought a tribe to Christ on its own terms. Teenagers and grandfathers both finish it in two sittings.
Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in, (Paperback)
God's Smuggler follows Brother Andrew's years of driving Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, praying "Lord, make seeing eyes blind" at border checkpoints. The adult classic of the smuggler shelf.
God's Smuggler, (Paperback)
The Persecuted Church, Up Close
China, Romania, Pakistan, and the Ripkens' grief and awe: testimony at full cost.
The Heavenly Man is Brother Yun's account of the Chinese house church - arrests, escapes that read like Acts, and a church that grew under the pressure meant to kill it. Handle with awe.
The Heavenly Man
Tortured for Christ is Richard Wurmbrand's fourteen years in Romanian prisons and the founding testimony of Voice of the Martyrs. Short, searing, and impossible to read unmoved.
Tortured for Christ, (Paperback)
I Dared to Call Him Father is Bilquis Sheikh's story - a wealthy Pakistani Muslim woman whose dreams and a Bible led her to Christ at the price of everything she had. Quiet, luminous, costly.
I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God, (Paperback)
The Insanity of God is Nik Ripken's pilgrimage through the persecuted church after his own family's loss in Somalia - what believers in prison countries taught him about resurrection. The modern missions memoir of its decade.
The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected, (Paperback)
The Theology and the Senders
Why go, why send, and the woman who discipled India.
Let the Nations Be Glad is John Piper's missions theology - worship as the fuel and goal of missions, suffering included in the strategy. The book behind a generation of goers.
Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions, (Paperback)
Serving as Senders insists the home team is a calling, not a consolation prize - six ministries every missionary needs from the people who stay. Every missions committee should own two copies.
Pre-Owned Serving as Senders: How to Care for Your Missionaries (Paperback) 1850781990 9781850781998
A Chance to Die is Elisabeth Elliot's biography of Amy Carmichael - fifty years in India, hundreds of rescued children, and poetry written from a bed of pain. The devotional-biography summit of this shelf.
Elisabeth Elliot Christian Classics A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, (Paperback)