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    Category: Missionary Biographies

    Many of us started our missionary journey by reading a compelling biography. Still others made it through a difficult season of life reading a biography. Empathy is a prerequisite for wisdom. Reading biographies lets you walk in somebody else’s shoes. It deepens your faith as you see the faithful struggle and overcome. “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.”

    Katharine Barnwell: How One Woman Revolutionized Modern Missions

    Katy, or “Aunt Katy” was born in 1938 (still alive at time of publishing) in London and raised in Britian then fighting for survival against the G…
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    Hannah Guinto May 27, 2025
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    The Man in the Leather Hat

    This unique series of biographical sketches narrates seventeen short stories about real people living true-to-life experiences.
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    Hannah Guinto April 29, 2025
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    My French Connection 

    Missio Nexus’ leadership thoughtfully summarize books, giving you the Leader’s Edge to help inform, stimulate and provoke profitable discussion. Leader’s Edge: Spiritual Formation My French…

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    Hannah Guinto March 25, 2025
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    By Life or by Death: The Life and Legacy of John and Betty Stam        

    Hot off the presses, this biography gives a fresh look at the shocking story of John and Betty Stam’s beheading in China, 1934, by Communist soldier…
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    Missio Nexus February 25, 2025
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    Behind the Ranges        

    James Outram Fraser, known as “Fraser of Lisuland,” was raised in a well-to-do British home and was deeply impacted by the life of his godly mothe…
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    Missio Nexus January 28, 2025
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    The People that Time Forgot       

    Alice and Don Gibbons went to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) aboard a freighter in 1953, sent by the Christian and Missionary Alliance,  as part of a …
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    Missio Nexus December 31, 2024
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    A Believer with Authority – The Life and Message of John A. MacMillan       

    This biography covers the life of a multi-faceted Presbyterian layman, who printed the China Inland Mission’s (OMF) periodical, China’s Millions f…
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    Missio Nexus December 3, 2024
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    The Education of Betsey Stockton – An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom      

    Betsey Stockton was born a slave in the late 1790s in New Jersey. Her mother was a domestic slave in the Robert Stockton household of the state’s mo…
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    Missio Nexus October 29, 2024
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    City of Tranquil Light: A Novel       

    City of Tranquil Light is a beautifully written page turner best characterized as either a historical novel or “fictionalized history.”
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    Missio Nexus September 24, 2024
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    Towers to Eternity       

    This is the well written story of Paul Freed and the global gospel radio ministry of Trans World Radio that he founded.
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    Missio Nexus August 27, 2024
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