Given that we are in a new era in the World Christian Movement, when Christianity is practically no longer associated with any powerful nation, we can benefit from a survey of all major methods of Christian missions used in the past twenty centuries to see what works best in our time. The best template for current missions is the first three centuries of the spread of our faith.

In Who Needs a Missionary? Robert Reese reviews his own missionary experiences in Zimbabwe and finds that the best results came from an indigenous leader who had the least contact with missionaries. Reese conducted interviews with this leader to let him speak for himself about his journey with God in ministry; these interviews form the heart of the book. Mostly without missionary guidance, this Zimbabwean Christian of humble origins journeyed from his conversion to Christ to arrive at a tr...

a Captain Critter 35 Word Book.Dale the Whale is too big to swim in shallow Snorkel Bay. He gets stuck at low tide.

A Captain Critter 35 Word book.A passing pelican becomes a subject of humor for some beach bums. The pelican reminds them that we all have unique looks.

A Captain Critter 35 Word Book.Besides using sponges to play sponge ball and clean things, the playful octopus picks a sponge for a friend.

A Captain Critter 35 Word Book.Coral Reef is about colors and shapes and spaces and places. and what? "Hide and seek and do not peek!" Octopus looked in many places.

A Captain Critter 35 Word Book.They want to learn about the sea, about rocks, about sand and about seaweed. But the octopus said, "we can learn from you, the oyster, the whale, the pelican too."

THE FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE STARTS IN THE CHAIR.At 508 pounds and battling limited mobility, former state wrestling champion Olden R. Reese faced his toughest opponent yet: himself. He didn't have a gym or a trainer-he had a chair, a prayer, and a will to change.The Champion's Comeback is the true story of how he lost over 200 pounds and the practical blueprint for how you can too. Blending spiritual wisdom with accessible "Chair Workouts," this book proves that you don't need ...

Aristotle’s influence on modern culture has become more and more important in recent years. His contribution to the sum of all wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction for much of our science. And all effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle’s three basic principles of effective argument, which form the spine of rhetoric: “ethos,” the impact of the speaker’s character upon the audience; “pathos,” the arousing of the emotions; and “logos,” the...

Based on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek? In the summer of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by the local news: a Great White shark has been attacking and killing people up and down the Atlantic Coast, not far from Chet's hometown of Springfield, New Jersey. Then one day, swimming with his friends, Chet sees something in the water. . .

Echo Reef loves sea horses so much, she wants one for a pet…no matter what!Of all the creatures in the ocean, sea horses are Echo Reef’s favorite. They’re sweet and gentle and they glide through the water so gracefully. When Echo discovers that Rocky Ridge, one of her Trident Academy classmates, has his own pet sea horse, she wants one right away. Not everyone agrees sea horses should be pets, however—perhaps they are happiest when swimming freely. But Echo thinks ...

When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they don’t expect much in the way of adventure. Noah has landed a marine biology internship, and Lo wants to draw and paint, perhaps even to vanquish her struggles with bulimia. But then things take a dramatic turn for them both when Noah mistakenly tries to save a mysterious girl from drowning. This dreamlike, suspenseful story—deftly told from...