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Three roughly-sawn wide planks nailed together—that was the door. It made a strong and interesting door, a door for people from all over the world to open and enter through. The door opened onto a hillside in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. Just beyond the hillside was a gully. Across the gully and up on a knoll, a dozen small huts formed an Oksapmin village, or hamlet, where about 60 of the more than 6,000 Oksapmin people lived. And beyond that? What did it matter? As far as we were concerned, we might as well have been at the end of the world... or the beginning.

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The Chamulas of southern Mexico had little hope. Descendants of the once-proud Maya Indians, they were enslaved by Spanish conquistadors to build a great city and its cathedrals. Centuries later the majority Ladino population continued to discriminate against them. Chamulas kept themselves poor and wretched by practising witchcraft and ritual alcoholism. To protect themselves, the tribe kept outsiders at arm's length. Then it happened. Chamulas finally met their written language—written words in their own mother tongue.

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Grace and Edmund Fabian grew to love the Nabak people of Papua New Guinea. They were helping translate Scripture for that language group when, in 1993, a Nabak man inexplicably attacked and murdered Edmund. Grace's faith was further tested when God challenged her to forgive Edmund's killer and when assailants began pelting her house with rocks. Then, when the murder case went to court in 1995, the judge's decision left her reeling. Discover how Grace found the strength to overcome unimaginable heartbreak and loss, and how God has used this tragedy for His glory.

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The thoughts presented in this book, through the words of four students contemplating a career in missions, came from hundreds of missions-minded people who seriously counted the cost of cross-cultural ministry. In an engaging storytelling style, it covers many of the issues faced by potential missionaries, including, "Who's good enough to go?", "But I don't feel called," and "Counting the Cost."

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Linda Thomas expected that when she grew old, she'd be a quaint little grandma—the kind that sits in a rocking chair and knits blankets for new grandbabies. But God and her husband had other ideas. In this narrative, uniquely told through letters to her granddaughters, Linda shares how she stumbles into adventures most grandmas could not imagine—like facing a charging hippo. It's a chronicle of God's heart, his delightful creativity, and His amazing power to help those in need.

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Don Richardson, author of Peace Child, says this of Martha Duff Tripp's account of her adventures, with colleague Mary Ruth Wise, while living among the Amueshas of Peru: "Float-plane landings on obstacled rivers, jungle trekking, bobbing down rapids, scaling precipitous ridges et al. were only a physical part of their incredible journey. Even more challenging was their quest to know the hearts and minds of Amuesha people, to share the feelings, fears and crises of a minority culture faced with the danger of drowning under the backwash of civilization." Tripp helped translate God's Word into their language and witnessed the power of the translated Scriptures to change lives—to the degree that Amuesha believers themselves established 45 churches.

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Well-loved author Jack Popjes continues to delight readers with his ability to write light-hearted stories that entertain and communicate deep truths at the same time. His third book tackles diverse subjects like the importance of Bible translation, the dynamics of tickling, a college practical joke, his first cigar with his father, his conversion, and the importance of the elderly in God's Kingdom.

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The Church's main task is cross-cultural missions. The Church's most foundational work is translating the Bible into the mother tongue of every person on earth. Readers will be provoked and challenged to reconsider their individual life choices in the light of these truths.

Nestled in the mountainous hinterlands of the Philippine Cordillera, the Ifugao people of Batad have lived for centuries, eking out a living in upland sweet potato fields and in the extensive rice terraces they carved out of the mountains.

For many years, the Ifugao people led a complex and ritualistic life, appeasing hundreds of deities. Every aspect of their lives was controlled through sacrifice and communication with the spirit world. To prevent violent death, the heads of their enemies were taken through warfare and ambush along trails. The practice of head-hunting was central to their worship and, although the American and Philippine governments essentially put an end to the practice, the ritual lived on.

Written by a former director of Wycliffe Canada, the late Len Newell, it's the story of the trials, failures, joys, and successes of a completely non-Christian tribal group as they embrace the Christian faith and the compelling message of God.

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Franklin Graham writes in the book's Foreword: "I believe that you will be fascinated, amazed, gripped by what God has done through this gutsy Christian lady." Mission Possible is the story of Marilyn Laszlo's relentless efforts to translate the Word of God into the Sepik Iwam language, resulting in the transformation of an entire people group.

Price: $10.00, softcover