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Crossing Cultures:
The Culture Shock series, found in the travel section of most books stories. There is a Culture Shock book for most of the countries or regions of the world where we send students. It seems that they were written primarily for business travelers, but they contain lots of helpful info about cultural norms . . .
Missions Theology, Motivation, and Strategy:
Let the Nations Be Glad , John Piper, Baker Books
The Recovery of Mission , Vinoth Ramachandra. IVP
Christianity Confronts Culture , Marvin Mayers, Zondervan
Mack & Leeann’s Guide to Short-term Missions , Mack&
Leeann Stiles, IVP
Romancing the Globe , Dan Harrison & Gordon Aeschliman, IVP
A Beginner’s Guide to Crossing Cultures , Patty Lane ,
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World Religions:
Gods That Fail , Vinoth Ramachandra, IVP
The Universe Next Door , Jim Sire, IVP
Missions Stories, Missionary Biographies
More To Be Desired Than Gold , Christy Wilson (various)
Eternity in Their Hearts , Don Richardson, Regal Books
Peace Child , Don Richardson, Regal Books,
(Story of ministry among the people of Netherlands New Guinea)
Bruchko , Bruce E. Olson, Creation House
(Ministry in South American jungles)
I Dared to Call Him Father , Bilquis Sheikh, Chosen
Books
(Muslim woman from Pakistan comes to Christ)
In God’s Underground & Tortured for Christ,
Richard Wurmbrand, Living Sacrifice Books
(Romanian pastor imprisoned under communism)
God’s Smuggler , Brother Andrew
(Bible smuggler in Eastern Europe)
Revolution by Candlelight , Bud Bultman, Multnomah
Press
(The Eastern European church under communism and their role in the fall
of communism)
The Wind is Howling , Ayako Mura, IVP
(Japanese nihilist comes to faith in Christ)
Let the Children Come , Amy Carmichael
Works of fiction:
Things Fall Apart
Biograghpy/auto-biography by secular authors:
Wild Swans Jung Chang
Son of the Revolution
Websites that might be helpful:
www.WCLBooks.com
(this is the William Carey Library online -- it
has tons of missions related books - check it out!)
www.worldchristiandatabase.org
Developed by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary
www.peoplegroups.org
This is the research department of the the International
Misson Board of the Southern Baptist Convention
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