33rd annual edition (This is the closed-loop spiral-bound edition; it can fold over completely and easily, and can lie flat and open on your table. 7x9 inches)

For over 30 years believ...[More]

33rd annual edition (This is the closed-loop spiral-bound edition; it can fold over completely and easily, and can lie flat and open on your table. 7x9 inches)

For over 30 years believers all over the world have used this tool to organize their schedules, journal their prayer times and Bible reading, and systematically pray for the nations.

The journals are a proven classic! They are more than daily planners (with all the customary features expected in such a product), they are a global experience!

You will find calendar pages for daily, weekly, monthly and long-range scheduling, alongside a Bible-reading plan, and prayer points for needs around the world, as well as missions information, maps and engagingly illustrated profiles on peoples and countries. With this one you can Plan, Journal AND Pray! The 2013 edition once again unites believers in vital intercession for some of the world's most pressing crises and vulnerable people.

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DETAILS:
The 2013 edition provides many opportunities for you to live and pray intentionally throughout the year.

Mini-library of relevant Christian teaching. A series of short teachings further inform your intercession and help you discover principles readily applicable to your daily walk with God. These challenging, insightful teachings are a good foundation for this year’s focus on many areas of conflict, oppression,and injustice that have been profiled in pasteditions of the diary. These include the continuing refugee crisis in Colombia, the harmful effects of the opium trade in Afghanistan, persistent human-rights abuses in North Korea, the ongoing plight of women and girls around the world, and more.

Monthly articles exploring places of brokenness and redemption around the world. Each month you’ll read about a people, nation, or sphere of society in desperate need of the church’s intercession and intervention. You’ll learn how others have responded to this need and how you can help through prayer and action. Stunning illustrations of people from the spotlighted nations let believers pray face-to-face with the world. Each Sunday you’ll find a reminder to pray for the people or situation discussed in that month’s profile.

Daily thematic prayer guide. Each day, a group or need related to that month’s prayer focus is targeted for prayer. Join thousands of other diary users worldwide in praying for the same people or situation.

Bible meditation and memorization guide. Weekly meditation and memory verses are found at the beginning of each week. By meditating on and memorizing each selection, you will commit 53 portions of Scripture to memory in 2013.

Weekly guide to praying for the nations including new country flags and statistics. A nation related to the monthly prayer focus is highlighted each week. Important information is included in each listing to assist you in praying for that nation. Each nation may also be located geographically using the maps section.

Two-track Bible-reading program, including a checkoff system to read the Scriptures in your own order and at your own pace:

Option 1: Read through the Bible in a year by following the reading guide each day.
Option 2: Use the checkoff system to read the Scriptures in your own order and at your own pace.

By reading an average of 3.5 chapters each day, you will read the entire Bible in one year, regardless of the order you choose to read each portion.

Calendars for planning your day, week, and year. A three-year long-range planner is included to aid your scheduling. Each month opens with a month-at-a-glance planner to keep track of important events, birthdays, and appointments. The daily calendar is designed in a handy week-at-a-glance format. This section can be used as a daily planning tool or as a daily journal and prayer diary should you desire to use the monthly planner for all your scheduling needs. (Some non-Christian religious holidays are included on the calendars as an aid to prayer.)

Personal notes and contacts. A personal notes/prayer journal page is included at the beginning of each month. Additional notes/journal pages and a handy section for recording phone numbers and addresses are included in the back of the planner.

Reference helps. The world maps, countries of the world section (statistical information for every nation), and time-zone chart provide useful data.

As you use the Personal Prayer Diary and Daily Planner, you will be encouraged and emboldened in the knowledge that you are one of thousands of Christians using this diary worldwide who are united in vital intercession.[Less]

Heroes for Young Readers introduces younger children to the lives of Christian heroes! Whether reading for themselves or being read to, children love the captivating rhyming poems and unforget...[More]

Heroes for Young Readers introduces younger children to the lives of Christian heroes! Whether reading for themselves or being read to, children love the captivating rhyming poems and unforgettable color illustrations of the Heroes for Young Readers series. Beautifully illustrated by Bryan Pollard; ages 5-10

In faraway China, despite danger and ridicule Jonathan Goforth (1859-1936) and his wife generously opened their home to thousands of Chinese visitors and never tired of telling others that even though we've made ourselves God's enemies, He has made a way for us to be His friends.[Less]

Cross-cultural Storytelling at Home and Abroad. Oftentimes, we think stories are for children. But using the Bible as evidence, we see that God communicated his truth to men and women of all cu...[More]

Cross-cultural Storytelling at Home and Abroad. Oftentimes, we think stories are for children. But using the Bible as evidence, we see that God communicated his truth to men and women of all cultures, time, and places by way of many small stories forming one large story.

While possessing a rich heritage of storytelling, too many evangelicals have forfeited this vital skill. Tom Steffen's aim is to help readers recapture the most natural, universal, and effective means of evangelism-discipleship that exists--storytelling.

This book is not just theory-it provides practical help by identifying the roles and tasks that are necessary to become an effective storyteller in another culture. Steffen offers creative tools and introduces practical ways to increase many of the storytelling skills for evangelism-discipleship. He moves us beyond linear gospel outlines, Western logic and organization, and individual responses to traditional evangelism rituals, to a mode of communication that respects the audience, making it easy for them to grasp what they have heard and to pass it on to others with minimal loss of content.

About the Author

Tom A. Steffen is professor of Intercultural Studies in the School of Intercultural Studies at Biola University in La Mirada, California where he directs the Doctor of Missiology program.[Less]

What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ. In his letter to his protege, Timothy, Paul says, "I have fought the good fight." In Arabic, those last three words are translated jihad. In ...[More]

What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ. In his letter to his protege, Timothy, Paul says, "I have fought the good fight." In Arabic, those last three words are translated jihad. In "Secret Believers," readers are introduced to Brother Andrew's protege in the Muslim world, Butros. In this riveting true story of the Middle Eastern Church struggling to come to grips with hostile governments, terrorist acts, and an influx of Muslims coming to Christ, readers will meet a group of men and women they never knew existed. The names and places have been changed to protect the real people in the real places. But the stories are true. In his most incredible and eye-opening book to date, Brother Andrew invites you to meet: Ahmed, a young Muslim terrified by nightmares until he is introduced to Isa (Jesus), Mustafa, a former leader in a fundamentalist Muslim movement that persecuted Christians, Salima, a privileged young Muslim woman who is held captive by her family when they find a Bible in her possession, Abuna, a priest faced with an aging congregation and constant threats to his beloved church, and many more.

Now available in paperback, "Secret Believers" not only gives readers a glimpse of the lives of these courageous believers, it also proposes four practical initiatives for Christians in the West to help these persecuted brothers and sisters. It calls us to join this new kind of jihad, leaving vengeance behind in favor of forgiveness, radical love, and unyielding prayer.[Less]

History, Trends and Possibilities. What is the future of the global church, and how and where do we fit into that picture?  "The Future of the Global Church" has grown out of fifty years of pa...[More]

History, Trends and Possibilities. What is the future of the global church, and how and where do we fit into that picture?  "The Future of the Global Church" has grown out of fifty years of passion, research, and study beginning with the first edition of Patrick Johnstone’s highly esteemed book "Operation World."  It weaves together the history, demography, and growth of the major world religions including Christianity, giving us a visual and textual overview of the past, present, and possible future of the global Church.
 
Large-size (8.25” x 12”) full-color book that provides a fascinating glimpse into the next 40 years; it includes:
• Data and extrapolations that highlight likely scenarios for evangelical Christian ministry in the coming four decades
• Interpreted overviews of the worldwide impact of the first 20 centuries of Christianity
• Comparisons of the impact of Christianity and those of the other world religions
• Summaries of the past, present, and likely future contributions of the different Christian traditions and streams

Download a .pdf sample here

About Patrick: 
Patrick Johnstone is well known and respected as researcher and author of the first six editions of Operation World.
Patrick also wrote "The Church Is Bigger Than You Think." Patrick is married to Robyn, and together they serve as
pastors-at-large to the WEC missionaries in Europe.[Less]

In-depth biblical study of women in missions, ministry and leadership, by the founder of a mission that has led in releasing people to obey God's call--the young, laypeople, short-termers, non-Western...[More]

In-depth biblical study of women in missions, ministry and leadership, by the founder of a mission that has led in releasing people to obey God's call--the young, laypeople, short-termers, non-Westerners AND women. Millions of women all over the world are looking over the church's shoulder, longing to see the freedom Jesus purchased for them at Calvary. Millions more have found freedom in Jesus but are still bound by human ideas - ideas that pressure a woman to let culture, not God, determine her place in the Kingdom.

While hurting men and women outside the church cry out, "Is there any hope? Does anyone care?" their sisters in the church are asking, "How can I share the hope I have? How can I, a woman, serve the Lord?" Many women, having heard God call them into public roles in the Kingdom, are serving in positions of leadership. They are asking, "Will the church support us?"

We must respond. The issue of women in missions, ministry, and leadership is dividing homes, churches, communities, even societies. We must respond responsibly, for we never want to find ourselves working against God's purposes, quenching His Spirit at work in the lives of those He has called. We must respond carefully, since God's truth often stands in direct opposition to what the majority of people believe.

Why Not Women? brings light, not just more heat, to the church's crucial debate with:

* A detailed study of women in Scripture
* Historical and current global perspectives
* An examination of the fruit of women in public ministry
* A hard-hitting revelation of what's at stake for women, men, the Body of Christ, God's Kingdom, and the unreached.

Why Not Women? also includes an examination of the fruit of women in public ministry, an exploration of the value and roles of women in Greek and Roman history and literature, Jewish rabbinic literature, the early church, current cultures and the church today. Enjoy historical as well as current global perspectives, and a detailed study of women in Old Testament writings, Jesus' ministry, and Paul's letters.

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Insights from Development Practitioners. Here development practitioners from around the world struggle to overcome the Western assumption that the physical and spiritual realms are separate and...[More]

Insights from Development Practitioners. Here development practitioners from around the world struggle to overcome the Western assumption that the physical and spiritual realms are separate and distinct from one another. They try to answer the question, how do Christians practice holistic transformational development in authentic ways?[Less]

How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself (expanded). With a new foreword by David Platt, two new chapters and a final word on how to help without hurting, this expanded...[More]

How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself (expanded). With a new foreword by David Platt, two new chapters and a final word on how to help without hurting, this expanded edition of "When Helping Hurts" creates a new paradigm for partnership by asking Christians to declare and demonstrate among people who are poor that Jesus Christ is making all things new. While this book exposes past and current development efforts that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the people they're trying to help, its central point is to provide proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor empower themselves. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts catalyzes the idea that sustainable change for people living in poverty comes not from the outside-in, but from the inside-out.

Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. "When Helping Hurts" provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevant applications. The result is an effective and holistic ministry to the poor, not a truncated gospel. A situation is assessed for whether relief, rehabilitation, or development is the best response to a situation. Efforts are characterized by an "asset based" approach rather than a "needs based" approach. Short term mission efforts are addressed and microenterprise development (MED) is explored. (Foreword by John Perkins)

The authors are on staff with the Chalmers Center. The Chalmers Center is a part of Covenant College and operates in association with the college's Department of Economics and Community Development.

"What an opportunity evangelicals have to make a difference in our world through the church. Corbett and Fikkert build on the growing momentum of holistic witness that's sweeping our country and globe and are eminently qualified and positioned to take motivated kingdom citizens on a Christ-centered and comprehensive journey that will pay huge dividends for impoverished people and for Christians in our broken world." --Dr. Ronald J. Sider, president, Evangelicals for Social Action, author, "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger"

"'When Helping Hurts" wonderfully combines heavy-duty thinking with practical tools. I appreciate their zeal to root all strategies in the institution God has ordained to bring about His goals. No donor should invest another dollar in any kind of relief effort before digesting the last page of this important book." -Joel Belz, founder and writer, "World Magazine"

"Churches in North America will find this a helpful way to educate congregations and then motivate them to action, both globally and in their neighborhoods." --Bryant Myers, PhD, professor of International Development, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary[Less]

These exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories chronicle the lives of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory. Readers of...[More]

These exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories chronicle the lives of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory. Readers of all ages love these fast-paced adventures that take them to the heart of a nation, an era, and what it means to live a life dedicated to serving God and those He loves. This Gift Set includes:

John Wesley: The World His Parish
C.S. Lewis: Master Storyteller
David Bussau: Facing the World Head-on
Jacob DeShazer: Forgive Your Enemies
Isobel Kuhn: On the Roof of the World[Less]

Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church. The worldwide church is more interconnected than ever before, with missionaries going from everywhere to everywhere. Africans work with Aust...[More]

Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church. The worldwide church is more interconnected than ever before, with missionaries going from everywhere to everywhere. Africans work with Australians in India. Koreans plant churches in London and Los Angeles, Nigerians pastor in the Ukraine. But globalization also creates challenges for crosscultural tension and misunderstandings, as different cultures have conflicting assumptions about leadership values and styles.

Missiologist James E. Plueddemann presents a roadmap for crosscultural leadership development in the global church. With keen understanding of current research on cultural dynamics, he integrates theology with leadership theory to apply biblical insights to practical issues in world mission.

Savvy discernment of diverse cultural underpinnings allows multicultural teams to work together with mutual respect for more effective ministry. The author shows how leaders can grow from an individualistic egocentric practice of leadership to a more global-centric approach.

The future of the global church depends on effective multicultural leadership. God has called people from various contexts to minister and lead in every land for the sake of the gospel. Whether you are teaching English in China, directing information technology in Africa or pastoring a multiethnic church in North America, discover how you can better work and lead across cultures.[Less]