Missionary Biography

14 stories from Kenya and Malawi: unsung heroes and heroines of faith, vision and courage.

The story of an extraordinary property tycoon and of what happened to him after his young son fell ill.

The day he died, D. E. Hoste applied to Hudson Taylor for mission work in the China Inland Mission (Now Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Schofield'...

Previously published as 'My Heart in His Hands', this book is fully revised and updated and is the best modern biography of Ann Judson available. I...

He loves the tango, was trained as a Chemist, and in his youth he had a regular girlfriend whom he planned to marry. For a pope, Francis has an unu...

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

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

"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....

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...