Dr. Anne Alexander, Assistant Professor of Incarnational Ministry, shares her insights on some of her favorite books that have influenced her own journey in Christian missions.
The Biblical Basis of Missions: Your Mission as a Christian
“Missionary Avery Willis, Jr., author of MasterLife Discipleship Training, has written another classic and effective missions text! The Biblical Basis of Missions: Your Mission as a Christian is 150 pages of very accessible Bible-focused missions overview with personal learning activities throughout the chapters and a study guide in the back. After experiencing it in English, I taught it in Chinese as part of a Bible College missions class. It’s simple, convincing, encouraging, and motivating.”
Telling the Gospel Through Story: Evangelism that Keeps Hearers Wanting More
“Missionary colleague Christine Dillon has been teaching Bible stories to people in a variety of cultures. Her Telling the Gospel Through Story: Evangelism that Keeps Hearers Wanting More is engagingly filled with personal Bible storytelling anecdotes demonstrating ways of opening conversations that move toward the Good News. She presents wise supporting principles and considerations in communicating with people from other cultures.”
Serving Well: Help for the Wannabe, Newbie, or Weary Cross-cultural Christian Worker
“In recent teaching I discovered and loved Elizabeth & Jonathan Trotter’s Serving Well: Help for the Wannabe, Newbie, or Weary Cross-cultural Christian Worker. Husband and wife each have different chapters in which they use difficult personal cross-cultural experiences to advise, enlighten and engage people encountering challenges in their phase of missions involvement. I gladly recommend this satisfying and helpful book to those praying for missionaries as well as those already contemplating or engaging in missionary life.”
These books offer a diverse range of insights for both aspiring and seasoned missionaries alike and can profoundly shape and enhance one’s missionary journey.