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…
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.”
The Man in the Leather Hat
This unique series of biographical sketches narrates seventeen short stories about real people living true-to-life experiences.
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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.”
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.