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In this article you will find advice and observations for new leaders drawn from years of serving as a pastor to church planters and missionaries.
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This books offers "ten building blocks for sensitizing yourself or your group to the needs beyond our borders. From prayer and giving to current events and lifestyle choices, Borthwick leads you to practical ways of sharpening your world vision right where you live." - Amazon
Published by Navpress (November 1987)
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Three Chinese house church leaders share their vision to complete the Great Commission.
Published by Gabriel Publishing (September, 2003)
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This excellent resource is a collection of articles from around the world on missionary care topics and practices. A must-have for missions agencies and churches alike!
Published by William Carey Library Publishers (February, 2002)
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This toolbox has everything a new short-term mission team leader could need to get started. This is not another how-to book; this is a CD full of printable and editable documents that you'll use with your team. Team member applications, meeting guides, stock photos, the whole nine yards!
Published by Emercy (November 2005)
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"If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the challenges of our world, both near and far, Paul Borthwick has some good news for you. He’s reduced the enormous and complex needs of people next door or across the world into manageable chunks so that an individual, small group, Christian education class, or an entire church can get excited about personal involvement." From the foreword by Robert A. Seiple – Former President, World Vision
Published by Gabriel Publishing (January 1, 1999)
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Piper describes the roles that prayer and worship play in missions work. Revised and expanded, including a new section on applications of worship and compassion.
Published by Baker Book House (January 2003)
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This 19th Edition of Mission Handbook lists more than eight hundred U.S. and Canadadien missions agencices, including their contact information, types of missions activities, and areas of focus.
Published by EMIS (2004)
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Argues that a complete understanding of missions begins in Genesis, focusing on God's desire to draw all peoples to him.
Published by Baker Book House (2000 (reprint))
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An excellent collection of articles relating to missionary care. This is a great resource for those wishing to step up support for their missionaries.
Published by William Carey Library (December 1, 1991)
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This book is an excellent resource for churches and missions agencies seeking to improve their missions focus and missionary care. Tom Telford has experience we could all learn from.
Published by Shaw (March 7, 2000)
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A small-group resource for understanding and responding to God's heart for the world.
Published by Intervarsity Press (November 2000)
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Operation World, the definitive prayer handbook for the church, is now available in its 21st century edition containing 80% new material. Packed with informative and inspiring fuel for prayer about every country of the world, it is essential for anybody who wants to make a difference.
Published by Authentic Media (September 2001)
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Hesselgrave uses Scripture, history, sociology, and missionary experiences to argue against wholesale change in current missionary theory and practice.
Published by Kregel Publications (January 15, 2006)
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"This book gives scores of practical ideas in how a team can provide the necessary care for a missionary." - Amazon
Published by Emmaus Road Intl (August 1991)
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Published by Intervarsity Press (January 2004)
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This book is an excellent resource for every church missions board. It begins with a history of missions and then gives strategies and ideas to help to further mission work. It is a helpful companion to Operation World.
Published by Christian Focus Publications ((June 1, 1998))
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The Global House Church Movement surveys the church as prescribed in Acts, historical home church pioneers, and steps and strategies for beginning a home church.
Published by William Carey Library Pub (April, 2004)
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Corrie ten Boom and her family decided to act on their faith and defy their Nazi oppressors. As they left behind their quiet life as shopkeepers, they entered a world of passwords, narrow escapes and the constant threat of capture. 224 action minutes.
Published by Focus On The family (2005)
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An authentic account of the life of Jesus based on the Gospel of Luke. According to Jesusfilm.org, this film has been translated into over 900 languages and has been seen in more than 215 countries. Languages on this DVD include English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Mandarin.
Published by Madacy Entertainment (June 24, 2003)
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Neal Pirolo is the director of Emmaus Rd Int. Having sensed that reentry support was grossly neglected yet greatly needed, he has written this thoughtful study on how to care for returning missionaries. It is his heart's desire to see our missionaries better cared for.
Published by Emmaus Road International (2000)
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This book uses case studies from churches representing a variety of denominations, sizes, and locations. From the detailed descriptions of the churches' missions history, vision, and programming, readers will glean practical ideas for starting or strengthening missions programs in local churches. Each chapter focuses on the unique qualities of a church that has succeeded, ranging from excellence in missionary care to involving children in missions.
Published by Baker Books (October 2001)
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This book is a tremendous instrument for missions agencies, churches, and missionaries. It is the result of studies on missionary attrition, its causes, and its cures. I highly recommend it.
-Joshua Jones, Emercy
Published by William Carey Library Publishers (January 1997)
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Website: www.aims.org
This organization is involved in "mobilizing, training and networking the global Church to work together to plant the Gospel in the world’s least reached people groups, and to establish churches that reproduce themselves."
Telephone: 757-226-5850

Website: http://www.believersworld.com
A short-term missions sending organization. They organize and facilitate mission trips for individuals, churches, youth groups, and other mission organizations. Ministry types include children’s ministries, orphanages, technical/computer installations, construction and work projects, and evangelistic drama in barrios, parks and many other places. They minister in various parts of the world, including Central/South America, Africa, the U.S., and Mexico.
Telephone: 877-641-5100

Website: http://www.solidhope.com
Free blogging for Christian missionaries. What a great way to keep in touch with friends, family, and supporters!

Website: www.cetinternacional.org
Latin Crossculture Training Center in Latin America.
Telephone: (591)04-4403034

Website: www.chinasmillions.org
This site provides an introduction to the history, culture and issues that are shaping one of the world's largest and most ancient civilizations. Explore a timeline tracing China’s history, an interactive map of China’s provinces and regions and articles covering China’s history, religion, people, culture and current events.

Website: home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/
This is a great site to give churches insight into becoming actively involved with missions.

Website: www.mountcarmel.com
Our endeavor is to provide the best prices (nearly 1/2 price in most cases) on CD's and DVD/videos for missionaries and missions. If you find better advertised prices please let us know and we will beat or match them. We are able to offer these great prices to you because we have made arrangements with many of the publishers that we sell to missionaries; at home, abroad or on furlough; full or part time, missions support staff, whether in the U.S. or foreign field; short term mission workers and retired missionaries. Family members or friends can also place orders for missionaries. For Overseas, our phone number is 1-509-548-0902 or 1-800-272-2442 or wic@mountcarmel.com.
Telephone: 509-548-0902

Website: www.photomission.com
PhotoMission's photographers meet the imaging needs of mission organizations, churches and Christian businesses by providing high quality images to visually support the growth of the Gospel. We work with available budgets, and 90% of the payment is distributed to the photographer who took the image. To learn how God has been using the talents of Christian photographers from around the world, please visit the 'News and Media' web page found on the PhotoMission website. We look forward to serving you.
Telephone: 1-610-793-2389

Website: http://www.churchexecutive.com/
Church Executive magazine offers church leaders and administrators information on finance, church growth, taxes, personnel, and other topics. Their website posts news articles concerned with church growth and ministry and advertises upcoming events.

Website: www.secure.sim.org/catpgB.htm
This site has a lot of books that are great for effective missions planning.

Website: www.comibam.org
COMIBAM International represents a very large and significant part of the Iberoamerican missions movement. It is a Latin American regional network of missionary churches and missions-minded pastors, mission training centers, and mission agencies. COMIBAM´S principal focus is the mobilization of the Latin American church for reaching out to the world´s unreached people groups through the sending of Latin American missionaries.

Website: www.diggorypress.com
Publish your testimony or other Chrsian book in a high quality perfect bound book with glossy cover for only UK£30 or US$50, and they can sell and distribute it worldwide for you on Amazon.com. They are a Christian-run publishers run by an ex-full-time missionary.
Telephone: 44 1579 363348

Website: www.emercy.org
Emercy is an international organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of missionaries through a wide range of programs including care and support, seminars, church integration, and short-term teams. In fact, this site you are on now is a project of Emercy.
Telephone: 877-875-4483

Website: www.everythingmissions.com
A missions outfitter and supplier discount online store.
Telephone: 219-313-7270

Website: www.reachthenations.org
Hillside Missions Organization is a community church based missions agency working to reach the unreached world. They also operate an excellent missions internship program.
Telephone: 1-877-586-0250

Website: www.infoplease.com/atlas/?link=tmpltop
Infoplease has a great online atlas tool with high quality maps of every country in the world.

Website: www.flagline.com
More than two hundred different International Flags. They help remind people to pray for the different countries.
Telephone: 1-800-353-2317

Website: www.kidsaroundtheworld.com
These flannelgraphs are a followup for The JESUS Film, 47 lessons on the life of Jesus. The characters are the same from the film.
Telephone: 815-229-8731

Website: Maranathalife.com
They are a bilingual site offering free articles to give to native pastors and leaders. They offer language curriculum to teach how to do missionary work, in Spanish, French, German, Swahili and Russian. The owners are full time missionaries to Mexico.
Telephone: 956-495-7200

Website: www.missiontriptraining.com
Short-term missions can be tricky... We understand. A lot has been invested. There’s a lot at stake. You know your team will make an impact, but how can you be sure that impact will be positive? Mission Launch Team Training is the answer. This top-of-the-line training is easy-to-follow, yet thorough in scope. The Leader Guide and DVD walk the team leader step-by-step through the process of training the team for the mission and helping the team assimilate back into life at home. Team leaders can train and disciple their own teams - allowing your missions program to grow in a healthy way! Consistently send out more teams and reach more nations for Christ!

Website: www.missionaryprayercard.com
This site is offering missionaries high quality prayer cards and bible markers. Use these cards to help raise financial support for your family.
Telephone: 727-448-0434

Website: MissionaryTracker.com
MissionaryTracker.com is a Christian online missionary newsletter service. It provides an easy way to keep supporters abreast of ministry progress as well as introduce missionaries to website visitors. Photo tools include an editable image gallery and auto-cropping tool, and users can create personal headlines, subheads, and content. This can complement or replace newsletter mail-outs and save time and money.
Telephone: 337-654-4279

Website: www.mountcarmel.com/
Mount Carmel has an excellent collection of missions-related cassettes, CDs, and videos, as well as praise, contemporary, and children's videos and music. In addition to providing an excellent selection of audio/video resources for missionaries, Mount Carmel sponsors missionaryresources.org.
Telephone: 800-272-2442

Website: http://www.gmi.org/ow/
Website with useful tools and information for praying for the nations.

Website: www.oscar.org.uk
OSCAR is a UK based mobilization website providing a variety of services and resources to the missions community.

Website: www.blueskysat.com
Supply all makes of satellite phones and Data terminals. Based in South Africa with service centeres in many parts of Africa. Low airtime rates for missionaries. Dedicated to spreading the gosple in this manner.
Telephone: +27114320075

Website: http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/
Check your newsletter to see if it will be blocked as SPAM. Send them a copy of your e-mail newsletter or promotion and, in seconds, they'll return a "spam score" and recommendations on how to decrease the odds of your e-mail being filtered.

Website: http://www.tyndale.com/resources/churches.asp
Tyndale Inserts add information, inspiration and motivation to your Sunday bulletin. The Church Around the World is a one-page bulletin insert that provides a great way to get your church further involved in missions. Subscriptions are $10/month for 100 copies.
Telephone: 1-800-692-9912

Website: www.WCLbooks.com
THE GLOBAL HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT Today, there is a spiritual phenomenon sweeping across the nations and a revolutionary church shift happening around the globe. The Christian church is getting back to the power and pattern of New Testament-style Christianity. God is raising up the global housechurch movement. In his new book “The Global House Church Movement” (published by the well known missions publisher William Carey Library), Rad Zdero reports on some of the amazing things God is up to today. Get rooted in apostolic patterns for church as revealed in the Scriptures. Get inspired by stories of spiritual pioneers who braved opposition from government and religious authorities to step out and do something new for God. Get going with practical and strategic steps in starting your own network of housechurches. To order “The Global House Church Movement”: call 1-706-554-1594 (outside the USA), call 1-800-MISSION (inside the USA), email gabriel@WCLbooks.com or log on to http://www.WCLbooks.com for secure online orders.

Website: http://www.jesusfilmstore.com/
The JESUS Film Project Store offers resources from The JESUS Film Project.
Telephone: 949-361-4579

Website: www.visionvideo.com
Vision Video offers over 2,000 Christian titles on DVD and Video. Videos include biographies, training, Christian entertainment and more. An excellent resource for churches and homeschools.
Telephone: 1-800-523-0226

Website: http://www.vonage.com/?refer_id=emercy
Vonage is a VOIP service that uses your broadband internet connection to give you crystal-clear calling to anywhere in the world. For $30 per month, you can call the US from anywhere with a high-speed internet connection and have unlimited usage! They send you a device that allows you to plug in your own phone, so there's no need to fool with headsets and computer microphones.
Telephone: 1-866-243-4357