Missionary Biography

The story of Hudson Taylor has inspired the lives of generations of Christians. Coming from humble origins and battling through great hardships to ...

The history of Christianity, the growth of the Church, is the history of its missionary efforts, its successes and failures.

Born into the Dinka Bor tribe in war-torn South Sudan, Michael was ten years old when he began to lose movement in his legs. He and his family soon...

In 1897, Tom Cochrane, a young doctor, arrived with his bride in Inner Mongolia, China’s northernmost territory. Three years later, after labouring...

The eighteenth century was a time of remarkable missionary activity. As the British Empire expanded around the world, Christian missionaries follow...

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.Jim Elliot arrived in Ecuador as a missionary at age twenty-five. Thr...

Rees Howells was a man of little worldly fame, yet through Norman Grubb's best-selling biography, his life story is known to millions. Born in a We...

"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life...

“As I was tearing up the road with the accelerator pushed to the floor, familiar landmarks flashing by me, a kind of mad exhilaration possessed me....

The Heavenly Man has sold over 750,000 copies and has been published in more than 30 languages. How can someone who suffers so terribly find the b...

In May 1931, 100 people, of whom 70 were missionaries serving in Angola, Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia, met at Muchacha in the Congo, to give...

Protection. Prayer. Providence. People. People throughout history have shared stories to entertain, to inform, to inspire. Christ’s people do this...

This is edge-of-your-seat reading; a story about the adventure-filled life of aviator and missionary Nate Saint who was martyred in the jungles of ...

This is edge-of-your-seat reading, a story about the adventure-filled life of aviator and missionary Nate Saint who was martyred in the jungles of ...

David Brainerd lived a short life but in his four years as a missionary he was blessed with a period of revival amongst the Indians of New England.

Compelled by Love, the true story of the ministry of Heidi and Rolland Baker in the war-torn, poverty and disease-stricken country of Mozambique, c...

Rudyard Kipling’s poem, Eddi’s Service, from which this book takes its title, is a set of verses put into the mouth of Eddius Stephanus, St Wilfrid...

April Holden comes from St Helens, Merseyside. As a child she suffered from persistent ill health, and was both physically and emotionally fragile....

"The Lausanne congress of 1974 marked the widespread adoption of integral mission as essential to the evangelical witness of Christ in our world. E...

“a book that needs to be taken very seriously” — Philip North “challenging lessons for the modern church” — Michael Turnbull This is a radical and ...

A gripping, inspiring, true story of God at work in Russia and war-torn Chechnya in the 1990s. Paula O’Keefe, a petite, slender, British girl, fres...

What would compel a successful surgeon to give up his practice to move to Haiti and serve the poorest of the poor? The catastrophic earthquake tha...

Working as a nurse for 25 years in rural Zambia, 500 miles from the nearest town, Sandra’s faith was tested to the limits.   What was God’s purpose...

In 1957, newly-qualified nurse Lily Gaynor set sail for Guinea-Bissau to live among the Papel tribe. Tuberculosis, malaria and typhoid were rife. C...

Frank Haggerty would have seemed to most of us as very unlikely material for a missionary. Raised in a poor part of Glasgow, and active as a gang m...

Chitokoloki Mission Hospital is a remote but remarkable facility in the North-Western Province of Zambia. This book comes from a compilation of dai...

Among the annals of missionary service around the world are countless true stories of intrepid men and women. They braved innumerable dangers, toil...

What does it mean to be a missionary in the world today. Dr. Griffiths challenges those who may have not seriously thought about missions before, c...

‘I can stick anything for two years,’ she said and ended up staying forty-two. So said former OMF worker Miriam Davis, whose book ‘Utterly Amazed:...

Elisabeth Elliot colourfully and honestly describes the mysteries and difficulties of adapting to life as a new missionary in the Ecuadorian jungle...

David Brainerd’s missionary efforts among the Native Americans of colonial North America are legendary, largely due to Jonathan Edwards’s Account o...

In his Spiritual Unfolding of Bishop H. C. G. Moule, John Baird wrote, ‘No course of reading is more establishing than that of Christian biography ...

CT Studd had it all: a life of privilege and wealth; the fame of being best all-round cricketer in the country; member of the England cricket team ...

This story summarises the character of Margaret Anne Lawson, known to many an Annie. No stranger to wild living, she was saved by grace and called ...

Joy In The Desert is a record of what God has done in Botswana over the past 50 years through a small band of devoted Christian workers. It is by n...

The story of Hudson Taylor is one of adventure and excitement - of improbable answers to prayer, opposition from the establishment and triumphs of ...

Focus on unreached people groups and the emergence of a global church have not yet eliminated massive gaps in the spread of the gospel. Differences...

For the past 25 years, a small medical team have been working at a Christian hospital in Cameroon. In an area that poses significant security risks...

A vivid portrayal of her life and ministry in South India. The impression left by this book is that she was the servant of a great God. Selections ...

Irish-Nigerian Pamela Brown-Peterside is forty and burned out when she exchanges the intensity of an honourable public health career in New York Ci...

The story of A Leopard Tamed is set in Nasir, a tiny village on the banks of the Sobat River in the Sudan. It reads like the story of another world...