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 ...

Inspired brings together the stories of eight very different individuals. Although their lives are unique, they all share the same thing: they are ...

In the 1970s, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge army transformed Cambodia into a nation-wide death camp. These years saw one of the worst periods of mas...

Mud, Bullets and Open Roads is the story of an ordinary life lived in obedience to God with extraordinary consequences. Through testing and opposit...

In the 1950s, a young English couple and their baby set sail for the remote Cook Islands, answering a call to serve as missionaries. Through a trea...

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...

Killing Fields, Living Fields tells the story of the church in Cambodia from its birth, then on through the Khmer Rouge years — one of the most bar...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the Presence of My Enemies, the gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham’s year as hostages in the Philippine jung...

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...

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...

Paul Schlehlein is a missionary and church planter among the Tsongas in rural South Africa. Few books are more inspiring to the Christian reader th...

How would a young American missionary family react when immersed in the heart of remote Tajikistan? Follow the James family’s adventures in an anci...

When God shapes our lives to fit his purposes, anything is possible! Raised in a strict Christian sect, with many religious rules and social requir...

"Eric Liddell deserves a definitive biography. This is it." (Sunday Times, Books of the Year). Faster. Higher. Stronger. No one has embodied the i...

Amy Peterson grew up in a Christian home and, like many young people today, absorbed a message that she needed to do big things for God. Her love o...

A powerful account of British missionaries, Peter and Brenda Griffiths, who played a critical role in the development of the Elim church in the aft...

North Korea is dark. Literally dark—many of its regions are too poor to afford electricity and other basic needs. Figuratively dark—its daily life...

Simeon's magnum opus, his Horae Homileticae, famously contains the three questions by which Simeon hoped all his preaching would be judged: 'Does i...

You Were Made for This! From the remote corners of the jungle to the world's largest cities, the Spirit of God is powerfully at work within the hea...

What makes Blythswood Care the organisation that it is today? The answer lies in the personal stories told in this book. They range from Scotland t...

Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and LewisÆs me...

The Christian life is like a kaleidoscope; one never knows what the next pattern will be. Life events are just like the colours, full of surprises....

This is Henri Nouwen's personal account of a pilgrimage to Santiago Atitlán, a Mayan town in the highlands of Guatemala. It was there that an Ameri...

For those searching for truth and a map to help lead them down the path of The Way. Jones recounts his experiences in India, where he arrived as a ...

“God can teach us more about himself through any life experience if we are willing to learn.” As Julie Shimizu reflects on the journey of her life...

David and Betty Chapman are missionary disciples raised in Christian homes. They have fulfilled the dreams of every Christian parent and have staye...

“This is an exceptionally moving and fascinating account of a family of six who graciously adapted to working in five continents over seven decades...

My Enemy… My Brother is the incredible story of Hanna Shahin, a Palestinian boy raised in the old city of Jerusalem. Saved and transformed by the g...

Amy Carmichael set an impossible standard. Working as a missionary in India until her death in 1951, she took Jesus at His word when He said, “If y...

'Go to Congo.' God's call was loud, clear and insistent. What was a recently qualified, ambitious, young ward sister to make of this? She had a spe...

In 19th-century England, James and Amelia Taylor famously prayed, “Dear God, if you should give us a son, grant that he may work for you in China.”...

Faith Cook shares her first-hand story of the trials faced by a child of missionary parents living in China during the turbulent period of the Seco...

John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides is a missionary classic. In this companion volume, Margaret Whitecross Paton gives an enthralling acc...

“This is an exceptionally moving and fascinating account of a family of six who graciously adapted to working in five continents over seven decades...

“God can teach us more about himself through any life experience if we are willing to learn.” As Julie Shimizu reflects on the journey of her life...