Three Centuries of Mission
Three Centuries of Mission

Author: Daniel O'Connor

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2000-11-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1441135529

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A new and expansive official history of the USPG commissioned to mark the tercentenary in 2001. The first half tells a compelling global story from the mission to the Americas in the 18th century, through the North China Mission in the late 19th century to today's Social Development Programme in Bangladesh. There is a particular focus on the post-1945 period of decolonization, development and dialogue with other religions. The second half is a collection of essays that give a wide range of themes and perspective from a history of missionary wives by Deborah Kirkwood to a discussion of the evolving role of the church in Zambia by Musonda Mwamba.Three Centuries of Mission emphasizes the key instrumentality of the USPG in the emergence of a worldwide network of Churches in the Anglican Communion and their significance in the world at the beginning of the new century.

Christian Mission
Christian Mission

Author: Edward L. Smither

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2019-03-06

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1683592417

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A deeper understanding of the grand history of mission leads to a faithful expression of God's mission today. From the beginning, God's mission has been carried out by people sent around the world. From Abraham to Jesus, the thread that weaves its way throughout Scripture is a God who sends his people across the world, proclaiming his kingdom. As the world has evolved, Christian mission continues to be a foundational tradition in the church. In this one-volume textbook, Edward Smither weaves together a comprehensive history of Christian mission, from the apostles to the modern church. In each era, he focuses on the people sent by God to the ends of the earth, while also describing the cultural context they encountered. Smither highlights the continuity and development across thousands of years of global mission.

Mission-Based Management
Mission-Based Management

Author: Peter C. Brinckerhoff

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0470432071

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The only nonprofit management book you must have-in an exciting new edition As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of Mission-Based Management provides comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses your unique concerns as a nonprofit manager and policy-maker Addresses the effects of SOX, organizational transparency, new technologies, technology planning, and marketing in today's environment Is written by a nationally recognized expert who has trained thousands of nonprofit managers in hundreds of seminars on the best practices in nonprofit management Includes in each chapter a recap and a list of questions for group discussion More than ever before, as a nonprofit manager, you want and need practical guidance on how to do your job and run your organization more effectively and efficiently. And more than ever before, Mission-Based Management, Third Edition provides the definitive answer.

Invitation to World Missions
Invitation to World Missions

Author: Timothy C. Tennent

Publisher: Kregel Academic

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0825438837

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A primary resource introducing missions for the passionate follower of Christ

Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author: Hilde Nielssen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9004207694

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This book makes visible an important but largely neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. An interdisciplinary group of scholars present case-studies on missions and individual missionaries, unified by a common vision of expanding a Christian Empire “to the ends of the world”. Examples range from Madagascar, South-Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Tibet, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada and Britain. Engaging in activities from education, health care and development aid to religion, ethnography and collection of material culture, Christian missionaries considered themselves as global actors working for the benefit of common humanity. Yet, the missionaries came from, and operated within a variety of nation-states. Thus this volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.

Introducing Christian Mission Today
Introducing Christian Mission Today

Author: Michael W. Goheen

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0830895434

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Michael Goheen gives us a full-scale introduction to mission studies today in its biblical, theological and historical dimensions. Goheen covers the full horizon of major issues in mission, including its global, urban and holistic contexts. This text shows how the missional church encounters the pluralism of Western culture and global religions.

A History of Christian Missions
A History of Christian Missions

Author: Stephen Neill

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 1991-05-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0140137637

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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. Many of the world’s religions have not actively sought converts, largely because they have been too regional in character. Buddhism, Islam and Christianity, however, are the three chief exceptions to this, and Christianity in particular has found a home in almost every country in the world. Professor Stephen Neill’s comprehensive and authoritative survey examines centuries of missionary activity, beginning with Christ and working through the Crusades and the colonization of Asia and Africa up to the present day, concluding with a shrewd look ahead to what the future may hold for the Christian Church.

The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 Volumes
The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 Volumes

Author: Adolf Harnack

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 1997-01-09

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13: 1579100023

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How did Christianity come to win official recognition from the state in A.D. 325? Why then? Why not until then? Harnack outlines answers to these questions and analysis the causes and courses of this transition. A standard work on the early expansion of the church by one of the greatest students of early Christianity in the last 200 years.