The Missionaries' Daughter
The Missionaries' Daughter

Author: Todd Fertig

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1615667946

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Nine-year-old Katy lives in Costa Rica with her missionary parents. Having lived there nearly all her life, she speaks perfect Spanish and feels at home in the culture despite her light skin and blonde hair. But Katy is learning that it isn't easy being the daughter of missionaries. Fitting in, making friends, and achieving success won't come without a struggle. Learn lessons of friendship, forgiveness, and integrity fromThe Missionaries' Daughter. 'For parents who want to encourage their children to make healthy, godly decisions,The Missionaries' Daughtercan open opportunities for discussion. It will challenge young readers to do the right thing, even when it isn't popular.' Joe White, President, Kanakuk Kamps 'This story will entertain young readers while writing messages of goodness and mercy on their hearts.' Gary Smalley, Founder of the Smalley Relationship Center 'Having grown up as the child of missionaries and now raising my own children biculturally, I love how this story brings out the challenges and joys of the lives of missionaries.' Shawn Inchaustegui, Camp Entrepreneur/Missionary, New Mission Systems International 'The Missionaries' Daughteris going to spread Jesus's passion to all those who read it.' Andy Braner, Author ofLove ThisandDuplicate ThisDiscussion questions included in the back of the book!

Parents of Missionaries
Parents of Missionaries

Author: Cheryl Savageau

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0830859292

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Whether you're the parent of a missionary recruit or a parent of an experienced missionary, this resource will help you thrive and stay connected with your children and grandchildren serving cross-culturally. Combining a counselor's professional insight and a parent's personal journey, the authors help you understand missionary life, grandparent long-distance and say good-bye well.

God's Little Daughters
God's Little Daughters

Author: Ji Li

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0295806036

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God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "Father Lin," or Dominique Maurice Pourquié, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at the local mission of the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP). The letters were from three sisters of the Du family, who had taken religious vows and committed themselves to a life of contemplation and worship that allowed them rare privacy and the opportunity to learn to read and write. Inspired by a close reading of the letters, Ji Li explores how French Catholic missionaries of the MEP translated and disseminated their Christian message in northeast China from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, and how these converts interpreted and transformed their Catholic faith to articulate an awareness of self. The interplay of religious experience, rhetorical skill, and gender relations revealed in the letters allow us to reconstruct the neglected voices of Catholic women in rural China.

Mommy, What Is a Missionary?
Mommy, What Is a Missionary?

Author: Dan Schuch

Publisher: TrustedBooks

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781632693853

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This book tells the story of a loving mother who answers her daughter's tough questions about missionaries. Katie's mommy explains that missionaries love to tell others about how much Jesus loves them. And Katie learns that missionaries enjoy praying for little children like herself. Katie comes to realize that she can pray for missionaries too!

Devotedly
Devotedly

Author: Valerie Shepard

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1433651572

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Their paths to God’s purpose led them together. Many know the heroic story of Jim Elliot’s violent death in 1956, killed along with four other missionaries by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe they were seeking to reach. Many also know the prolific legacy of Elisabeth Elliot, whose inspiring influence on generations of believers through print, broadcast, and personal testimony continues to resonate, even after her own death in 2015. What many don’t know is the remarkable story of how these two stalwart personalities—single-mindedly devoted to pursuing God’s will for their young lives, certain their future callings would require them to sacrifice forever the blessings of marriage—found their hearts intertwined. Their paths to God’s purpose led them together. Now, for the first time, their only child—daughter Valerie Elliot Shepard—unseals never-before-published letters and private journals that capture in first-person intimacy the attraction, struggle, drama, and devotion that became a most unlikely love story. Riveting for old and young alike, this moving account of their personal lives shines as a gold mine of lived-out truth, hard-fought purity, and an insider’s view on two beloved Christian figures.

Pilipinto
Pilipinto

Author: Valerie Elliott Shepard

Publisher: P & R Publishing

Published: 2023-06-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781629950259

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In 1956, Valerie's young missionary father, Jim Elliot, and four other men were speared to death by members of a remote Ecuadorian tribe. But the good news of the gospel did not die with them. When Valerie was just a toddler, she and her mother, Elisabeth, moved to live with that very tribe--showing the unconditional love of Christ so that the gospel could work in powerful and transformative ways. Pilipinto is an amazing story of courage and redemption--but it is also the simple story of a young American girl who grew up alongside the indigenous people of the 1950s Amazon jungle. That jungle, despite its dangers, became a delightful playground where Valerie learned to trust God's hand and respect all his gifts. Beautifully illustrated, Pilipinto is a child-appropriate introduction to several Christian heroes and heroines--powerful models in the faith who demonstrated reckless abandon for the kingdom of God.