Mission Education

Reading Program 2002

FROM MEMORY TO HOPE
World Federation of Methodist Women, 2000
316 pages
Ethel Wolfe Born (#3400) /$10.00

Travel around the world to meet remarkable, courageous women. Hear in their own words their memories and hopes for the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women. In a conversational style, the book documents the impact of women on church, society, and the world.

GOD’S GLOBAL MOSAIC
InterVarsity Press, 2000
142 pages
Paul-Gordon Chandler (#3427) /$10.00

Using biblical illustrations, these inspirational stories from faithful Christians around the world show the diversity of the church in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia.

GOD WHISPERS: STORIES OF THE SOUL, LESSONS OF THE HEART
Jewish Lights Press, 2000
143 pages
Karyn D. Kedar (#3426) /$15.95

These heartfelt stories of people in the Jewish tradition inspire us to challenge life’s peaks and pitfalls, to continue our own journeys of spiritual and personal growth, and to lessen our fear and expand moments of love and connectedness.

GRANDFATHER’S TALE
Interlink Publishing Group, 1999
256 pages
Ulfat Idlibi (#3429) /$12.95

An old woman in Damascus, Syria, tells her grandchildren tales of her grandfather. This wonderful fictional account gives the reader a view of Ottoman Islamic society at a time when the people resisted Russian encroachment in their country. It provides new perspectives on the Middle East.

HOUSE OF THE WINDS
Interlink Publishing Group, 1998
256 pages
Mia Yun (#3432) $14.95/

This novel is a beautifully told story of a young girl growing up in Korea as it emerged from Japanese rule and civil war. The reader learns of Korea’s painful past, and its enduring strength and achievements.

MISSION POSSIBLE
Tyndale, 1998
182 pages
Marilyn Laszlo with Luci Thomas (#3442) /$10.00

Missionary Marilyn Laszlo, who devoted her life to translating the Bible into the Sepik Iwam language in Papua New Guinea, tells how her work transformed an entire group of people even as she learned to bridge language and cultural gaps to reach others for Christ.

MOTHER TO MOTHER
Beacon Press, 1998
210 pages
Sindiwe Magona (#3444) /$13.00

The violent death of a young American woman in apartheid-divided South Africa is the basis for this rich and compelling novel. The mother of the murderer seeks to understand how this could have happened. The story plunges the reader into a world of displacement and loss, yet one imbued with spirit and hope.

OSCAR ROMERO: REFLECTIONS ON HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS

Orbis Books, 2000
127 pages
Marie Dennis, Renny Golden, Scott Wright (#3448) /$13.00

This volume celebrates the life, spirit, and legacy of Oscar Romero, the martyred archbishop in El Salvador. The book reveals Romero’s deep inner spirit and calls us to find the face of God in the poor as he did, and to live the way of gospel love, whatever the cost.

THE OTHER SIDE OF WELCOME (Easy Reading)
Sue Ellen Johnson, 1998
91 pages
Sue Ellen Johnson (#3449) /$10.00

The story of Father Elias Chacour, an Arab Palestinian Melkite (Catholic) priest whose life has been dedicated to bringing peace to all peoples in the Middle East, shows that sharing the love of God and nonviolent protest can create an environment where people of all faiths may live together peacefully.

THE SINGER AND THE SONG: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE SPIRIT
Orbis Books, 1999
180 pages
Miriam Therese Winter (#3458) /$15.00

In a spiritual memoir, the author–a musician, writer and missionary–shares her experiences of working with starving children in Ethiopia and refugees in Cambodia, and also of finding God in her own backyard, of having breast cancer and living with hope.

STORIES IN MY NEIGHBOR’S FAITH
United Church Publishing House, 1999
183 pages
Susan L. Scott, ed. (#3464) /$14.00

This book gathers together sacred and personal stories from over twenty religious traditions including Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Mennonite, and Native American. Come to a better understanding of faiths and neighbors who worship in ways different from our own.

TEACHING KIDS TO CARE AND SHARE:
300+ MISSION AND SERVICE IDEAS FOR CHILDREN
Abingdon Press, 2000
124 pages
Jolene L. Roehlkepartain (#3467) /$13.00

Over 300 inventive, hands-on ideas and activities involve children in service to one another, their churches, communities, and world. Parents, grandparents, and anyone working with children will find help here for teaching children to follow Jesus’ example.

THESE STRANGE ASHES: IS GOD STILL IN CHARGE?
Servant Publications, 2000
152 pages
Elisabeth Elliot (#3468) /$10.00

The author tells of her first year as a missionary in the jungles of Ecuador in 1952. She captures the reality of life among the Colorado Indians and reflects on what it means to trust God completely through joy and sorrow, life and death.

WALKING WHERE WE LIVED: MEMOIRS OF A MONO INDIAN FAMILY
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999
208 pages
Gaylen D. Lee (#3472) /$12.95

The author recounts the story of his family across six generations. Woven into the account of food gathering, hunting and fishing, ceremonies and games is the disturbing story of Hispanic and white encroachment into the Mono Indian world and the erosion of the tribe’s culture.

WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN
Vintage Books, 1993
274 pages
Esmeralda Santiago (#3473) /$12.00

Born in Puerto Rico as one of eight children in a lively and loving family, the author found her life interrupted when the family moved to New York City where the rules and the language were bewildering. This autobiography describes her remarkable journey to overcome adversity and her graduation from Harvard with highest honors.