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

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

Before you go, Jack Hempfling. A daily devotional to help you prepare your heart before going on a short-term mission.

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 Member Care, Kelly O’Donnell. A complete handbook for doing member care well.

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.

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In addition to these books we also have the following resources which you can download:

Missions and the Environment, Tim Herbert. Tim was asked to write this article for OMF (UK) who published it in their magazine East Asia’s Billions in July 2007.
Download (PDF, 5KB)

An Assessment of Short-Term Missions, John Miles. John has a lifetime of short-term missions experience, and wrote this paper as a dissertation for his MA in Missiology with Birmingham Christian College.
Download (PDF,  490KB)

Getting it Right, John Miles. John has been responsible for sending nearly one hundred short-term teams, and this manual contains his wealth of experience in training them.
Download (PDF, 969KB)

How to Come Back Alive, John Miles. John’s GP admits that John knows far more about malaria than he does!  This health manual contains valuable information for travellers abroad.
Download (PDF, 155KB)

Worlds Apart, John Miles. John’s extensive experience as a mission worker in India, Africa and eastern Europe is put to use in this cross-cultural training manual.
Download (PDF, 1217KB)

These documents remain copyright of the author but they are available for use subject to acknowledgement of the source.