Author: Susan Hope
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: mission, power, transforming, spirituality, shaped
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-09-07
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1596271299
ISBN-13: 9781596271296

Combining real-life case studies with vital lessons from her own personal journey, Susan Hope explores what happens to us on the inside when we cross boundaries and become missional Christians. This discerning book reflects on the inner resources and attitude of mind required to engage in mission in a postmodern, multicultural society.

Author: Karen Gerhardt FortMission Historical Museum Inc.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, mission
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-12-09
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738571482
ISBN-13: 9780738571485

Mission is named for the chapel built at La Lomita ("little hill") on a former Spanish land grant. During the 1850s, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate began serving the ranches between Brownsville and Roma. La Lomita was a resting place midway through their 100-mile circuit. In 1908, developers John J. Conway and James W. Hoit bought land from the Oblate Fathers and established the town of Mission, just north of La Lomita. They advertised throughout the Midwest, and soon farmers arrived by rail, wagon, and automobile. Through the efforts of Nebraskan John H. Shary, the citrus industry

Author: Jeffrey Abrahams
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Keywords: mission, writing, own, statement, guidelines, plus, statements, top, companies
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1580087612
ISBN-13: 9781580087612

A clear statement of intent and purpose should provide a blueprint for a company’s future success. In 101 MISSION STATEMENTS, top businesses share the missions that have inspired greatness, from Fortune 500s like Microsoft to thriving indie entrepreneurs like Ben & Jerry’s. Start-ups, nonprofits, and corporations alike can learn as much from these examples as they can from Abrahams’s detailed advice on how to craft a statement to suit the needs of any organization.

Author: Karen B. Chapman
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Keywords: mission, new, vocabulary, words, adventure, packed, country, action, mayan
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2005-11-07
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0764598201
ISBN-13: 9780764598203

Author: Jeffrey Abrahams
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Keywords: mission, top, companies, america, corporate, statement, book, statements
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1580081320
ISBN-13: 9781580081320

Author: David Jacobus Bosch
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: mission, society, missiology, series, american, theology, paradigm, shifts, transforming
Number of Pages: 587
Published: 1991-03-20
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0883447193
ISBN-13: 9780883447192

"The most comprehensive and thorough study of the Christian mission done in this generation, if not this century".........Alan Neely.

Author: William H. Taylor
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: mission, nigeria, studies, religion, africa, east, scottish, educate, history, educational, work, presbyterian
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 9004107134
ISBN-13: 9789004107137

By using primary sources, this case study seeks to shed new light on the nature and extent of European (in this case Scottish) educational pioneering work in Africa (in this case, eastern Nigeria). It examines the essential differences between (a) the pre-colonial period, (b) the colonial period, and (c) the pre-independence period. It argues that non-formal community and political education were continuously as central to the Christian (here, Presbyterian) missionaries’ work as was the formal schooling of the young - females as well as males. While the curricula reflected the missionari