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Missions and World Religions
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."
- National Missionary
Convention
- The World
Convention National Profiles - World Convention is currently
building a global reference for the nearly 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).
- ComeNserv, Ministry to
Muslims (formerly Muslim Hope): 1. to minister to the spiritual
and humanitarian needs of Muslims in various parts of the world.
2. to provide a bridge of understanding and communication between
Christians and Muslims. 3. to facilitate Christians and Muslims
working together in various projects for education and humanitarian
relief. Work in Albania.
- 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
- Team Expansion
- Orchard Group
- Establishing new churches in New York and the Northeast (formerly
the "Go Ye" Chapel Mission).
- Alumnus Brent
Foulke
Translation Work
- 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
- Operation World official
website. Links
to current, updated information on countries of the world. The primary
purpose of Operation World is prayer. Pray
for today's country.
- Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion links.
- United Bible Societies links to related
sites
- Urbana Conference
- Voice
of the Martyrs links. BasicFellowship
- The acrostic, b.a.s.i.c., stands for "brothers and sisters
in chains."
- World Christian
Database at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity,
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
- World Evangelical Alliance
a global network of national/regional evangelical church alliances,
organizational ministries and specialized ministries serving the
worldwide church through WEA.
- World
information from The Global Center -- Christian Missions,
Christian Persecution, Country Profiles, People Groups, World Maps,
World Population, World Refugees, World Statistics
- World
Vision
- World News Network and
BBC News are two secular
worldwide news sources
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.
These two titles are also
available at the
Osceola County Public Library. Your public library card number is
your password for their databases.
The Library maintains a
collection of missionary newsletters as part of the Robert
E. Reeves Memorial Collection.
Dec. 2007
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