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Author
Publisher
Gomidas Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A personal history of a dedicated group of American and Canadian missionaries and relief workers who saved thousands of Armenian, Greek and Turkish orphans from starvation, disease and harm in the Talas region during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. From the initial jubilance of the Young Turk revolution, through the period of increased state repression, culminating in the violence and destruction of world war and genocide, the courage and kindness...
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Written under pseudonym to protect herself and her sources, McCord depicts sharing the love and truth of Christ with women living in Afghanistan. These stories are honest and true, and the harsh reality of their lives is not sugar-coated. McCord shows how people who don't know Christ come to see Him, His truth and His beauty. They reveal the splendor of Christ, the desire of human hearts, and that precious instance where the two meet.
6) Battle born
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver accepts one final mission. He has to kill Gideon no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes them both far from the comforts and codes of civilization, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.
9) The Mission
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1986
Language
English
Description
A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires.
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe svagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal...and, with fellow missionary Rachel Saint, lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed their loved ones. Compelled by their friendship and forgiveness, many in the tribe came to faith in Jesus....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus ₁Mac₂ MacGyver, who creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government and uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem-solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain...
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
18) God's smuggler
Author
Publisher
Chosen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sixty years after Brother Andrew's first trip, his classic, thrilling account of smuggling Bibles across closed borders will inspire new readers"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in South Dakota, he volunteered for missionary service in...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The ambitious Team-Up Missions Program pairs groups of aspiring heroes with pro heroes to go on action-packed missions! Although Izuku Midoriya and his U.A. High friends are thrilled to participate, there's just one catch-there's no telling who will be teamed up with whom! From top heroes to students from other classes and schools, anyone could be on the same team. Like always, the students take on crazy challenges on the path to full-fledged herodom....
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