We recommend the following books to further understanding of issues in contemporary world missions:

Ad-Mission, Graham Fawcett. An excellent guide to debriefing.

Burn Up or Splash Down, Marion Knell. Advice on how to survive coming back to your ‘home’ culture after serving abroad, from a British perspective.

Care Across Cultures, Cherilyn Orr.  A practical guide for churches caring for missions partners.

Doing Member Care Well, Kelly O’Donnell (ed.).  A manual reviewing member care from a number of different environments including real-life case studies.

Families on the Move, Marion Knell.  A consideration of some of the issues families need to consider when relocating abroad.

Foreign to Familiar, Sarah Lanier.  An excellent guide to understanding other cultures.

Funding the Family Business, Myles Wilson. Guidance on the best ways of raising funding for your ministry.

Global Missiology for the 21st Century, William D Taylor. Papers following on from the 1999 Iguacu missiological consultation.

God, that’s not fair, Dick Dowsett. An investigation of eternal punishment and justification for Christian missions.

Honourably Wounded, Marjory Foyle.  A very helpful manual for recognising and addressing causes of stress in missions workers.

Mission in the 21st Century, Andrew Walls & Cathy Ross (Eds). Majority world authors explore the five marks of mission and evaluate current theology and practice of missions.

Operation World, Patrick Johnstone & Jason Mandrick. The best guide to what’s going on in each country of the world, and how to pray into it.

Postmission, Richard Tiplady (Ed.).  A consideration of what it means to be involved with missions to a postmodern generation.

Re-Entry, Peter Jordan. Advice on how to survive coming back to your ‘home’ culture after serving abroad, from a US perspective.

Short Term Service Directory, Christian Vocations.  A very useful handbook detailing a large variety of missions opportunities.

The Re-Entry Team, Neal Pirolo. Guidance for churches on how to welcome their missions partners home.

Thinking Clearly About the Great Commission, Rose Dowsett.  An introduction to world missions.

Too Valuable to Lose, William D Taylor (ed).  An examination of the causes of attrition among mission workers.

Worth Keeping, Rob Hay and others. Global perspectives on Best Practice in missionary retention.  Follows on from Too Valuable to Lose.

Members of Global Connections receive a discount on many of these and other resources ordered through their website.  Visit their shop.