Updated: July 25, 2004

Pastor’s Packet of Missions Resources                   

…best missions resources for pastors                 David Mays

 

Resources to strengthen your missions background and build a global perspective.

Purchase from ACMC.  Call 800-798-ACMC.

 

Starter Stuff (Shortcuts)

Attend the next ACMC Conference in your area.

See www.acmc.org

Get Your Church Involved in Missions by Michael Griffiths

A very brief booklet recommended for pastors

Missions Assessment Profile, ACMC, See it at www.acmc.org

A simple self-diagnostic tool for the church covering twelve key missions components

Stuff you need to know about Doing Missions in Your Church, a Handbook of Lists,” (on CD)

An encyclopedia of local church missions issues

The Great Commission by Rose Dowsett

A recent missions overview (Scripture, history, and current strategies),. 

Missions in the 21st Century and Today's All-Star Missions Churches by Tom Telford

Doing missions in the local church

Missions in the Third Millennium by Stan Guthrie

Current trends in missions

Exploring World Mission (also on CD Rom) by Bryant Myers

A very quick overview of the world in diagrams by various kinds of needs

Six Dangerous Questions by Paul Borthwick

A book to preach from

Missions, God's Heart for the World by Paul Borthwick

A good 9-session inductive Bible Study on missions

 

Serious Stuff (Gems)

Operation World  (also available on CD Rom), Patrick Johnstone, ed.

The best information on countries and peoples and the best prayer guide

Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper

One of the best missions books of the ‘90s, a top recommendation for any pastor,

The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins

Excellent secular overview of Christianity in the world

Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, Ruth Tucker

A biographical history of missions

When the Saints Go Marching Out by Art Beals, Geneva Press

One church’s model for mobilizing the entire congregation

Urbana Student Missions Convention,

Triennial event in Urbana, IL, includes pastors’ track.  www.urbana.org 

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement  www.perspectives.org

A 16-week course on missions theology, history, strategy, and culture

 

Study Stuff (Classics)

Key to the Missionary Problem by Andrew Murray

A classic from a century ago

Mission in the Old Testament, Walter Kaiser

            Best study of missions in the Old Testament

Christian Mission in the Modern World by John R. W. Stott

Classic overview of missions

Stand in the Gap by David Bryant

Another missions classic