Download or read book The Very Worst Missionary written by Jamie Wright and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The reason you love Jamie (or are about to) is because she says exactly what the rest of us are thinking, but we’re too afraid to upset the apple cart. She is a voice for the outlier, and we’re famished for what she has to say.” --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of Of Mess and Moxie and For the Love Wildly popular blogger "Jamie the Very Worst Missionary" delivers a searing, offbeat, often hilarious memoir of spiritual disintegration and re-formation. As a quirky Jewish kid and promiscuous punkass teen, Jamie Wright never imagines becoming a Christian, let alone a Christian missionary. She is barely an adult when the trials of motherhood and marriage put her on an unexpected collision course with Jesus. After finding her faith at a suburban megachurch, Jamie trades in the easy life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, along with her family, she earnestly hopes to serve God and change lives. But faced with a yawning culture gap and persistent shortcomings in herself and her fellow workers, she soon loses confidence in the missionary enterprise and falls into a funk of cynicism and despair. Nearly paralyzed by depression, yet still wanting to make a difference, she decides to tell the whole, disenchanted truth: Missionaries suck and our work makes no sense at all! From her sofa in Central America, she launches a renegade blog, Jamie the Very Worst Missionary, and against all odds wins a large and passionate following. Which leads her to see that maybe a "bad" missionary--awkward, doubtful, and vocal—is exactly what the world and the throngs of American do-gooders need. The Very Worst Missionary is a disarming, ultimately inspiring spiritual memoir for well-intentioned contrarians everywhere. It will appeal to readers of Nadia Bolz-Weber, Jen Hatmaker, Ann Lamott, Jana Reiss, Mallory Ortberg, and Rachel Held Evans.
Download or read book Missionary Positions written by Albert H. Tricomi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together political, theological, and literary analyses this investigation examines a broad range of works, featuring both those that celebrate and those that criticize American missionaries at home and abroad.
Download or read book Harvest written by Jacob Young and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of nineteen, Jacob Young left his family's Idaho wheat farm for Samara, Russia, where he had been assigned to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He quickly learned how to approach strangers in thick fur coats and deliver a thirty minute message about God. He learned how to knock on door after dreary door and testify with a conviction he did not always feel. He learned to love the Russian language, the Russian people, and the inside of a Russian jail. But the most important lessons may have been the things he never learned. In an effort to preserve privacy, names of persons portrayed in this memoir, including that of the author, have been changed.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Rev Walter M Lowrie written by Walter Macon Lowrie and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of the Rev John Williams Missionary to Polynesia written by Ebenezer Prout and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missionary Journal and Memoir of the Rev Joseph Wolf Missionary to the Jews written by Joseph Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Rev David Tappan Stoddard written by Joseph Parrish Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of Rev David Tappan Stoddard written by Joseph Parrish Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of Trees written by Apricot Irving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an “eye-opening memoir” (People) “as beautiful as it is discomfiting” (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti. Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary’s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the deforested hills to preach the gospel of trees. Her mother and sisters spent their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, it became a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over hard-packed dirt, road blocks and burning tires triggered by political upheaval, the clatter of rain across tin roofs, and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm. Poignant and explosive, Irving weaves a portrait of a missionary family that is unflinchingly honest: her father’s unswerving commitment to his mission, her mother’s misgivings about his loyalty, the brutal history of colonization. Drawing from research, interviews, and journals—her parents’ as well as her own—this memoir in many voices evokes a fractured family finding their way to kindness through honesty. Told against the backdrop of Haiti’s long history of intervention, it grapples with the complicated legacy of those who wish to improve the world, while bearing witness to the defiant beauty of an undefeated country. A lyrical meditation on trees and why they matter, loss and privilege, love and failure. The Gospel of Trees is a “lush, emotional debut...A beautiful memoir that shows how a family altered by its own ambitious philanthropy might ultimately find hope in their faith and love for each other, and for Haiti.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Download or read book When the Lights Go Out written by Ruth Myors and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, Ruth Myors left Australia to work as a midwife with the Somali people. For over two decades, she worked in a hospital in Somalia, a village in Ethiopia and in radio ministry in Kenya. During this time, government decisions, coups, communist takeovers, natural disasters, sudden deaths and other misfortunes disrupted plans and brought about unexpected changes in Ruth's life.In 'When the Lights Go Out', Ruth describes how these experiences have shaped her and shown her that God is faithful, and that even during the darkest periods, his light shows the way ahead.
Download or read book Memoirs of Rev David Brainerd written by David Brainerd and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs Historical and Edifying written by Samuel Mazzuchelli and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and educated in Milan, Italy, Samuel Mazzuchelli (1806-1864) began his American ministry in 1828 at Mackinac Island, a center of the fur trade. Building churches, organizing schools, and preaching in both French and English, he traveled the Mississippi and the Great Lakes over long distances and in all seasons. After 1839, he continued much of his work in Iowa as a vicar-general to the bishop of the newly-created see of Dubuque. Mazzuchelli eventually founded both a men's college and a teaching convent, the Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary, in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, and extended the Church's outreach within Native American communities. In 1849, Mazzuchelli relinquished many of his administrative responsibilities to become the priest of the parish at Benton, Wisconsin, where he also served as director of the novitiate and school opened by the Sisters of the Congregation of the Holy Rosary. Mazzuchelli's Memoirs are divided into three sections: the first focuses upon missions among Native Americans and Canadians in Wisconsin and Michigan; the second deals with missions among Catholic and Protestant immigrants in the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa; and the third is a disquisition on the present and future state of Catholicism and Protestantism in the United States. Although spiritual matters are the principal concern, the memoirs also convey much about the Upper Midwest's political life and early community institutions.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Short Term Missionary written by Val Zimmerman and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever seen God perform a miracle before your very eyes? Read along as I share with you my own experiences as a missionary in Israel, China, Ghana, Liberia, and Kenya; how God used this simple farm boy to preach the Gospel, pray for the sick, and see Jesus heal them right in front of me! Let my inspirational story of Gods power and love impact your own spiritual life!
Download or read book Great Things Happen written by Remigius F. McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of William Knibb Missionary in Jamaica written by John Howard Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the REV Walter M Lowrie Missionary to China Classic Reprint written by Walter Macon Lowrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie, Missionary to China This edition of the Memoir of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie is made up of a selection from the letters and journals printed in the larger editions of the same work. The plan adopted was to let him speak for himself in his letters and journals, and the edi tor has done little more than to select and arrange the papers of his beloved son. A few remarks have been made with the View of noticing his early years, and connecting the different periods of his short but active and not unvaried life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Elder written by D. Keith Shurtleff and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have wanted to write this book for many years. Since it is the truth, as ingrained in my memory of the trials challenges and struggles attendant to my missionary service, I was always a bit hesitant to write it. I did not want to scare away prospective missionaries, or divulge any type of information that the enemies of my Savior might try to use for their twisted purposes. However, as the missions of three of my children are drawing to a close, I have finally come to realize that our youth do not need to be protected from the truth about how hard missionary service is, but rather must be taught the truth so that they can be better prepared. My fears have been allayed because I have come to realize that those who serve God as missionaries do it because they love him, and by and large such individuals possess consecrated hearts, a willingness to serve no matter the cost. With that comforting knowledge, I am at last writing the true story about my missionary service in all of its sorrow and splendor, in order to help future missionaries better prepare. My time of missionary service is most accurately described as the toughest two years of my life, at least up unto the time that I served. However, it was also among the most precious and beautiful.
