Missions and World Religions

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Missions Trips

International Justice Mission

Niños de Mexico

 

Restoration Missions

  • ANUKAN and Missionary Directory (available in the library only) includes a more complete list than does this web page
  • Mission Services Association: "working as partners with missionaries to help them effectively communicate with their supporters and the church to promote the fulfillment of the Great Commission."
  • The National Missionary Convention is now The International Conference on Missions. 
    • Indianapolis November 15-18, 2012.
  • The World Convention - the National profiles   The World Convention is currently building a global reference for the 180 countries and territories where Christian Churches, churches of Christ, and Disciples of Christ congregations are known to be.
  • Christian Missionary Fellowship, International: CMF International, "a missions team with personnel working around the world."
  • CCFH Ministries serves people with disabilites and their families by providing quality residential care and by developing disability ministry resources. They offer a Certificate in Disability Ministry and Exceptional Teaching Online. CCFH currently manages an independent living program, as well as two residential living programs for those with disabilities (Riverwood Christian Communities).
  • Deaf Missions dedicated to helping deaf people see Jesus Christ.
  • Exposing Satan's Power Ministries, dedicated to fighting the cults and the occult.
  • FAME: "Dedicated to bringing help and hope to people in underdeveloped nations through medical evangelism with special concern for those untouched with the Gospel of Christ."
  • Good News Productions: "Working with Christians to develop culturally-relevant strategies and resources to effectively proclaim the gospel of Christ to the peoples of the world."
  • IDES: a nonprofit organization ministering through the Christian Church and Churches of Christ meeting the needs of suffering people around the world in the ministry of benevolent evangelism.
  • Literature and Teaching Ministries (LATM), located in the College Press facility, is dedicated to the production of Christ-centered, Bible-based teaching materials--primaily books--in the languages of the mission fields of the world.
  • New Missions Systems, International
    • Alumnus
  • Team Expansion  
  • Orchard Group
    • Establishing new churches in New York and the Northeast (formerly the "Go Ye" Chapel Mission).

Bible Translation

  • Pioneer Bible Translators: Bible translation and literacy programs, working with local Christian Churches and churches of Christ.
  • Ethnologue: Languages of the World, an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,912 known living languages. 
  • Summer Institute of Linguistics: "The purpose of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is to work with language communities worldwide to facilitate language-based development through research, translation, and literacy."

General Resources for Missions

  • MisLinks:A web-based missions directory--mission agencies, collections of missions papers and documents available on the Web, magazines, researching special topics such as people groups and the persecuted church.
  • Missiology.org
  • Missiology Research sites from the American Society of Missiology
  • Mission Aviation Fellowship Teams of aviation, communications and technology specialists overcome barriers, transform lives, and enable the work of more than 600 organizations around the world.
  • Mission Network News  worldwide missons news
  • Modern Language Association Language Map of the United States.
  • Mission Research Resources - links provided by Global Mapping International

World Religions

BUDDHISM

HINDUISM

ISLAM

 

MISSIONS PERIODICALS IN THE FCC LIBRARY

Currents in Theology and Mission and International Review of Mission.   These two refereed missions journals are in the database Thompson Gale InfoTracOneFile. You will need your LIRN password for this database.

  

The Library maintains a collection of missionary newsletters as part of the Robert E. Reeves Memorial Collection.

 

August 2011