Suggested Reading List for those preparing to serve God on the mission field!

The following is a list of books that I would suggest to any and all people involved in or considering serving God in World Evangelism.  I am in no way implying that I agree with all that is written in these books.  Each person who would consider a position that is so important should be able to “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”  Eat the meat and spit out the bones.  At least one of the books is a secular book and has some inappropriate words but the things to be learned are well worth the reading of the book.

1. The Challenge of Missions by Oswald J. Smith
2. Key to the Missionary Problem by Andrew Murray
3. Mentoring for Mission by Gunter Krallman
4. The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman
5. The Master Plan of Discipleship by Robert Coleman
6. Jones, Marge and Jones, E Grant,  PSYCHOLOGY OF MISSIONARY ADJUSTMENT
7. Brewster and Brewster.  COMMUNITY IS MY LANGUAGE CLASSROOM! 
8. Lingenfelter, Sherwood G and Mayers, Marvin K. MINISTERING CROSS-CULTURALLY, AN INCARNATIONAL MODEL FOR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
9. Loss, Myron. CULTURE SHOCK:  DEALING WITH STRESS IN CROSS-CULTURAL LIVING
10. Reed, Lyman E.  PREPARING MISSIONARIES FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A BICULTURAL APPROACH
11. Richardson, Don.  PEACE CHILD
12. Richardson, Don.  LORDS OF THE EARTH
13. Richardson, Don.  ETERNITY IN THEIR HEARTS
14. Allen, Roland.  EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES AND MISSIONARY METHODS
15. Allen, Roland, Missionary Methods, St Paul’s or Ours
16. Elliot, Elizabeth.  SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY:  THE LIFE AND TESTAMENT OF JIM ELLIOT
17. Hesselgrave, David J. Planting Church Cross Culturally, A Guide for Home and Foreign Missions
18. Hodges, Melvin L, The Indigenous Church and the Missionary
19. Hodges, Melvin L, The Indigenous Church
20. Olson, Bruce.  BRUCHKO
21. The Training of the the Twelve by A. B. Simpson
22. The Lost Art of Disciple Making by Leroy Eims
23. Brock, Charles, Indigenous Church Planting A Practical Journey 
24. AN ENQUIRY INTO THE OBLIGATIONS OF CHRISTIANS TO USE MEANS FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE HEATHEN by William Carey
25. Collins, Marjorie.   MANUAL FOR TODAY’S MISSIONARY:  From Recruitment to Retirement. 
26. George, Timothy.  FAITHFUL WITNESS: THE LIFE AND MISSION OF WILLIAM CAREY.  
27. Hale, Thomas.  ON BEING A MISSIONARY. 
28. Hiebert, Paul.  ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FOR MISSIONARIES.  
29. Kane, J. Herbert, Christian Missions in Biblical Perspective
30. Kraft and Wisley.  READINGS IN DYNAMIC INDIGENEITY. 
31. Lederer, William J. THE UGLY AMERICAN
32. McNamara, Roger N., Editor, A Practical Guide to Church Planting
33. Miller, Basil.  WILLIAM CAREY. 
34. Nida, Eugene.  UNDERSTANDING LATIN AMERICANS:  WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO RELIGIOUS VALUES AND MOVEMENTS. 
35. Starr, Timothy, Church Planting, Always in Season
36. Steffen, Tom A., Pasing the Baton, Church Planting that Empowers
37. Tucker, Ruth.  FROM JERUSALEM TO IRIAN JAYA:  A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY  OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. 
38. Winter and Hawthorne.  PERSPECTIVES ON THE WORLD CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT: A READER.  
39. Spiritual Discipleship by J. Oswald Sanders
40. Spiritual Leadership by J.Oswald Sanders
41. Twelve Ordinary Men by John MacArthur
42. Tally Ho the Fox by Herb Hodges
43. Lectures to my Students by Charles Spurgeon
44. Language Acquisition Made Pratical by the Brewsters
45. As Iron Sharpens Iron by Howard Hendricks