The Church of the Nazarene has been living and breathing missions for more than 100 years; it is a part of who we are as Nazarenes. As you read about experiences in missions, imagine embracing the challenge to go and make Christlike disciples. The individuals you will meet are a sampling of hundreds who have gone, served, and walked alongside the ministry of missions through Work & Witness and Mission Corps. Many have done it, and you may feel led to join those who will go in the future.

IN 2010, MEMBERS OF THE HAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONALS (formerly the Iroquois Nationals) lacrosse team, representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of six Indigenous Nations in North America, were sitting in a hotel in New York City instead of playing on the field in Manchester, England, competing for a world championship. The Nationals were told they couldn’t use their Haudenosaunee passports to travel to the UK; only Canadian or American passports would be accepted, effectively denying that this...

How does Dr. Amanda Madrid's faith help her overcome violence and fear after dangerous drug cartels attack the jungle clinics she has established? How will she achieve her desire to bring hope and healing to the wounded and suffering people in the mountains of Central Honduras?In Honduras' "Wild West" mountain jungles, Amanda Madrid found her calling as a medical doctor to poor farmers.When she was a young girl, Amanda prayed a prayer asking God to help her serve the rest of her life as a ...

How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its arrival in the far-flung outpost of 1860s Victoria, British Columbia, right up to twenty-first century Ontario.Examining the peculiarity of how this system of land reform swept ...

Baptism is more important than you think. But not for the reasons you suppose.Combining careful Bible study with enlightening historical survey and practical suggestions, this book provides a rich resource for deepening and renewing a central practice of the Christian faith.

Over the last two decades, Bethel Church in Redding, California, has risen to prominence in the area of signs and wonders ministry. The kinds of miracles seen in the ministries of Jesus and the New Testament Church are manifesting, not only through Bethel’s leadership team (e.g. Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton), but also ordinary, everyday people – both within the church, and to an even greater extent outside of its four walls. For example, the blind are receiving their sight, the deaf hea...

Two cultures collide and embrace in this love story and coming-of-age struggle for life's "high places."After Tenwa burns his tribe's religious shrine, he realizes that following the missionary may cost him his life. His father and the tribal leaders want him dead. He flees his village, hoping to reach the Nile River and safety of high places where he can start again with his new wife, Tabu.As the Germans and British battle for land in East Africa, Missionaries William and ...

Condition the core; unleash the potential.Serious athletes train for results—results that make them winners on the field, pitch, course, or court. And the key to getting those results, to improving performance in any sport and at any level, is no secret. A strong, well-conditioned core is the lynchpin to athletic success.In Conditioning to the Core, strength and conditioning coaches Greg Brittenham and Daniel Taylor deliver the definitive guide to training the tors...

Step into twenty‑three unforgettable years on a prairie grain farm, where the harvest is heroic, the challenges are relentless, and-most surprisingly-the machinery talks back.In The Harvest Chronicles, Catherine Taylor invites readers into the heart of Taylor Grains Ltd., sharing the real‑life joys, disasters, humour, and grit required to farm in southeastern Saskatchewan. Through whimsical storytelling and imaginative personification, Cathy gives voice to...

From Darkness to Light, the first part of a two-book saga, is an incredible true story about Tom Slone, who suffered tremendous difficulties living as a runaway, Satanist, sorcerer, and gang president growing up in the south side of Chicago. Little did Tom know, that despite everything in his life, God would take him to Heaven to make a decision that would change his life forever. God also revealed what Tom's life was like before coming to earth, and how the strategies of Heaven and angels...

The most famous story of Jesus retold Prodigals digs deeply into each line from Jesus's famous parable about the prodigal son, inviting all readers―those down on their luck or high on their horse―to identify as prodigals. A prodigal is anyone who accepts they have a sinful human nature and turns toward the love of home, the place where we find a deeper relationship with God. Rather than divide the world into prodigals and nonprodigals, Taylor invites readers to fi...

In Honduras’ “wild west” mountain jungles, Amanda Madrid found her calling as a medical doctor to poor farmers.When Amanda’s father rejects her dream to be a doctor, eighteen-year-old Amanda strikes out alone and enters medical school in Tegucigalpa.Her work as a medical officer, public health consultant, and director of an international holistic Christian ministry called Predisan could have resulted in prestigious luxury for her. Instead these experiences led Dr. Madrid to...