Orphan Care & Mission Resources

MUST READS

Global Orphan Care Crisis [Elliott, Diane]
Generous Justice [Keller, Timothy]
Let the Nations Be Glad [Piper, John]
The Hole in Our Gospel [Stearns, Richard]

GLOBAL ORPHAN CARE & CHILD CARE

Global Orphan Care Crisis [Elliott, Diane]
The Connected Child [Purvis, Karyn]
Wounded Children, Healing Homes [Schooler, Jayne, Smalley, Betsy and Callahan, Tim]
The Whole Brain Child [Siegel, Daniel]
Anatomy of the Soul [Thompson, Curt]
Christian Alliance for Orphans
Empowered to Connect
Faith to Action Initiative: Children, Orphanages and Families
UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 2014 Report

MISSIONS

When Helping Hurts [Corbett, Steve and Fikkert, Brian]
Short-Term Missions Workbook: From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens [Dearborn, Tim]
Transforming Ventures: A Spiritual Guide for Volunteers in Mission [Ives, Jane]
Intelligence [Livermore, David]
Toxic Charity [Lupton, Robert]
The Mission Leadership Team: Mobilizing Your Church to Touch the World [Mays, David]
Don't Waste Your Life [Piper, John]
Finish the Mission [Ed. Piper, John, Mathis, David]
Radical [Platt, David]
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality [Scazzero, Peter]
The Hole in Our Gospel [Stearns, Richard]
Unfinished [Stearns, Richard]
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement [Ed. Winter, Ralf, Hawthorne, Steven]
The Grand Weaver [Zacharias, Ravi]
Global Prayer Digest
Mission Frontiers
U.S. Center for World Mission

DOING JUSTICE

Choose Love, Not Power [Campolo, Tony]
Generous Justice [Keller Timothy]
Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life [Lupton, Robert]

GLOBAL POVERTY

7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess [Hatmaker, Jen]
Walking with the Poor [Myers, Bryant]
Good News and Good Works: A Theology of the Whole Gospel [Sider, Ronald]
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger [Sider, Ronald]

PERSONAL STUDY

Six Dangerous Questions [Borthwick, Paul]
Mission in the Old Testament [Kaiser, Walter]
Let the Nations Be Glad [Piper, John]
Eternity in Their Hearts [Richardson, Don]

BIBLE STUDY & DEVOTIONALS

Missions, God's Heart for the World [Borthwick, Paul]
Until the Whole World Knows [Chole, Alicia Britt]
Operation World [Ed. Johnstone, Patrick]
Witnesses to All the World [Plueddemann, Jim and Carol]

SMALL GROUP STUDY

How to Be a World Class Christian [Borthwick, Paul]
The Great Commission [Dowsett, Rose, Monarch Books]
Missional Essentials: A Guide for Experiencing God's Mission In Your Life [Ford, Lance and Brisco, Brad]
God's Heart for the Nations [Lewis, Jeff, Caleb Project]
Unveiled: God's Heart for His People Bible Study [Sjogren, Bob]
UnvelinGlory (video curriculum)

FINDING YOUR NICHE

All In [Batterson, Mark]
How to Be a World Class Christian [Borthwick, Paul]
Run with the Vision [Sjogren, Bob and Stearns, Bill and Amy]
Becoming a World Changing Family [Thomas, Donna]

GLOBAL PROGRESS

The New Global Mission [Escobar, Samuel]
Missions in the Third Millennium [Guthrie, Stan]
The Next Christendom - The Coming of Global Christianity [Jenkins, Phillip]
Operation World [Ed. Johnstone, Patrick]
Ministering Cross-Culturally [Lingenfelter, Sherwood and Mayers, Marvin]
Exploring World Mission [Myers, Bryant]
The Changing Face of World Missions [Pocock, Michael]
World Christian Database, Center for the Study of Global Christianity

MISSION BIOGRAPHIES

David Brainerd
Elizabeth Elliott
Jim Elliott
George Whitfield

NON-FICTION BOOKS ABOUT RUSSIA

The Prodigal Son [Nouwen, Henri]
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom [Rawicz, Slavomir]
A History of Russia [Lawrence, John]