Promoting World Missions: Index of pages
A sitemap of blogs, devotionals, published articles, local church world missions promotion
materials, help for mission trip organizers, bible reflections, course content learning activities
including word puzzles, exam study guides, and assignment instructions
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- 10 ways to avoid becoming a
missionary
- 10 ways to ruin your mission
trip
- 10% Approved Special Giving in
the Church of the Nazarene
- 10/40 Windown Circle of
Significance and Worlds A, B, and C: Explanations and map
- 15 Important Chapters of the
Bible
A
- Academic success strategies
plus statement on cheating
- Alabaster: The Nazarene
international building fund
- Alfredo Del Rosso: An Italian captivated by a vision (ebook)
1: Introduction
2: If this be Pentecostalism
3: Out under the stars
4: The Nazarenes
have landed and the situation is well in hand
5: Superintendent Del Rosso
6: Retirement? Not
quite 7:
Retirement? Finally
- Alfredo Del Rosso biography in
PDF format
- Amateur radio inspirational
thoughts
- Analyzing church statistical
graphs
- Apostles' Creed and the Nicene
Creed
- Apostles' missionary
journeys (map in PDF format)
- Apple pickers parable
- Articles and books by Howard
Culbertson
- Asian is not oriental (PDF
format)
- Assimilating new people
- Attendance policy for NBC online
course
- Authors quoted on this
website
- Attendance reminder --
"Peanuts" cartoon (PDF format)
B
- Background and start of Nazarene
global outreach
- Balloon animal instructions from
Pioneer National Latex (sold at Walmart) -- PDF format
- Beginning Nazarene work in
Croatia
- Bible at a glance
- Bible course (introductory
level)
- Bible passages on world missions:
500-word mini-essays publishked in Engage magazine
- Bible passages on caring for the
poor
- Bible study principles
- Bible bloopers, trivia, and
humor
- Biblical demon possession and
Haitian loa possession -- a comparison
- Biblical foundations for missions |
PDF of
Missions visualized in Scripture |
view as
PowerPoint
- Bibliography page -- Why? plus
sample entries and documentation for information and quotations
- BibLit materials (Introduction to Biblical literature course at SNU)
Due dates Exam study
guides Bible
memorization passages
Bible reading assignment
instructions
- Biblical Perspectives course
resources
- Bingo - a cultural anthropology
game
- Biographies of
missionaries
- Biography: Howard
Culbertson
- Biographies of Susan Fitkin by
Melodie Sides and Stan Ingersol
- Biography: Wanda Knox
- Biography: Harmon
Schmelzenbach
- Bread pledge for missions council
leaders
- Black history month: World
mission involvement by Black Americans
- Blog: My sabbatical in South
America
- Bulletin insert for Faith Promise
promotion (PDF format)
- Burning question form --
MCS (PDF format)
- Bwanda Fusa
Challenge game discussion guide
C
- Canaan: strategic land bridge at
eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea
- Casa Robles: Nazarene
missionary retirement center
- Case studies -- In-depth looks at complex, multi-faceted issues
faced in real-life contexts
- Case Studies: A unique teaching tool
(PDF format) | view at
PowerPoint
- Call to missions: How to know if
you're called
- Checklist for local presidents --
Nazarene Missions International
- Choruses in various
languages
- Christian conversion
- Christian Thought course
resources
- Christianity versus culture --
positions taken
- Church as missionary
- Church health and growth
course resources
- Church planting steps
- Classic scripture passages / historic
missions slogans -- handout sheet (PDF format)
- Cliff's Notes on the Bible: The
Bible in 50 words
- 120 Common Sayings Quoted From
the Bible
- Commitment African pastor's
statement
- Compassionate Ministries giving
calendar for December
- Conflict: Strategies for Solving or at
least Managing It
- Connection problems: NBC
online statement
- Contract between professor and
students
- Conversion of Hudson Taylor --
missionary to China in the 1800s
- Conversion of the Barbarians,
400-800 AD
- Conversion of he Vikings,
800-1200 AD
- Coping with Culture Shock
- Creative Access Countries --
places with legal and political barriers to overt Christian missionary work
- Creative Teaching Activities (PDF
format)
- Cross-cultural Worship Service
assignment -- Becoming a foreigner as a minority of one
- Crossword puzzles
- Cultivating growing, deepening
relationships (PDF format)
- Cultural Anthropology
Alphabet (PDF format)
- Cultural Anthropology course
resources
- Dante -- life of Italy's most important poet with photos and artwork
(PDF format) | Download as
PowerPoint
- ""Dear mission trip participants" --
letter
- Death and Dying -- Suggestions on
How to Minister
- Decision-making Tower or
Pyramid
- Deputation -- Caring for
Missionary Speakers
- Developing Ways to Operate
Nazarene Global Missions Outreach -- a look back at history
- Devotional Writings
- Devotionals: Come Ye
Apart
- Devotionals: Narf newsletter
- Sermon on the Mount -- Six devotional reflections (Matthew 5-
7)
- Devotionals in
Standard, weekly reflections published in a take-home piece for adult Sunday
school classes
- Active faith, not fatalism -- Psalm
121;1-2
- "And a wee little man was he" --
Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10)
- Moses Confronts Pharoah -- Exodus
10:1-9, 20-25
- An Appropriate humility -- Job
38:4-7
- Atmosphere of commercialism --
Construction financing for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome -- John 1:10-11l and Acts 8:20
- The Antichrist -- Luke
21:25-31, 34-36
- Blessed . . . Not so . . . -- Psalm
1
- Dancing arouind a golden calf -- Exodus
25:1-9a; 32:1-6a
- Discipleship doesn't come cheaply --
Luke 6
|
Bonhoeffer was
right
- Does the Colonel have something we
don't have? -- Luke 14:12-24
- "Don't throw your life away" -- Luke
9:23-25; 17:33; Matthew 16:24-27
- Easter: Christ is Risen! -- Luke
24:5-7
- Emptiness versus God's
presence -- Exodus 33:12-17
- Escaping mammon's golden
claws -- Matthew 6:24
- First things first -- Luke
12:13-34
- Fountain of joy -- Habakkuk 2:2-4; 3:1-2,
17-19
- Spiritual Renewal: The Fountain of
Youth -- Isaiah 40:31 and 41:10
- Getting the glory down -- Psalm
103
- God has visited His people -- Luke
7:18-22
- God's man under pressure -- Exodus
5:1-14
- He is my shepherd -- Psalm
23
- I sing because I'm free -- Exodus
14:10-16, 22-31
- Leaning on the everlasting
arms -- Psalm 37:1-11
- Live-and-share philosophy of
life -- Luke 5:17, 24, 27-39; 6:11
- Lord, teach us to pray -- Luke
11:1-13
- Love that destroys -- in a good
sense -- 1 Corinthians 13
- Measuring up -- Micah 6:8
- Moses' call from "I am Who I
am" -- Exodus 3:1-10, 13-15
- Non più
morte, non più duolo -- Revelation 21:4
- Perfect love -- Luke
10:25-28
- Power of the Savior's word -- Luke
4:31-36, 40-43; 5:1-6
- Satan's empty bag of tricks -- Luke
4:13-20
- Single-minded concern for the
Kingdom -- Philippians 4:19
- Spiritual Renewal: Fountain of
Youth -- Isaiah 40:31 and 41:10
- Sweet little baby Jesus -- Psalms
22:1-5; 23 and 24:7-10
- Swimming
upstream -- Exodus 20:12-20
- Telling tales -- Psalm 15;
16:8-11
- These hands I give to you -- Exodus
31:1-11
- To everyone that is thirsty (Isaiah's
vision) -- Isaiah 55:1-3
- Too sure of ourselves -- Luke 22:33,
57
- Trust the instruments: What
flighgt training taught me -- Joshua 1:5-9
- Unworthily? -- Exodus
12:1-14
- Watch thief -- Exodus
33:12-23
- We shall be changed -- 1
Corinthians 15:51-58
- Wet blanket (or joyless)
religion -- Luke 15:21-32
- What does God have in mind for your
kids? -- Exodus 2:1-15
- What kind of Way Preparer are
you? -- Luke 3:4, 15-18
- Where is your faith? -- Luke
8:22-25
- Where they did not belong -- Exodus
1:1-14
- Who cares? -- 1 John 4:7
- Who do you say He is? -- Luke
9:18-20
- Diamante (or diamond) poem
instructions
- Difficult group
members
- Discovering Missions book
advertisement (PDF format)
- Distinguished Service Award ( DSA )
order form (PDF format)
- Divorce: Statement by Nazarene
international General Assembly
- Does Jesus care if we cuss? -- Is
swearing okay for Christians?
- Does Satan exist?
- Doing Missions Well: Missionary
Biographies (Engage magazine articles)
- Enculturation and acculturation:
Two ways human beings acquire culture -- by David Hesselgrave
- Ethics of Change by Charles
Kraft
- Ethnocentrism: What's bad about
it? How can we get moving on the path to multi-cultural appreciation and admiration
- Exam study sheets: see "Study guides"
- Exegesis paper in Theology of
Missions | |
Feedback on exegesis
papers (PDF format)
- Exit interviews: Guidelines
and suggestions for talking to people who have left a church
F
- Faith Promise giving for missions
- FAQs pages (Frequently Asked Questions)
- Fish Scale by Jamie Wood (PDF
format)
- Frankfurt Declaration of the
Fundamental Crisis in Christian Mission -- authored by Peter Beyerhaus (PDF format)
- Fundraising ideas for short-term
mission trips
- Fundraising ideas from
Brigada
- Fundraising principles
G
- General Education courses
- "Getting paid" for the BibLit
Bible dictionary report assignment (PDF format)
- Giving that transforms -- PDF
of book
- Giving your testimony of faith in
Jesus
- Global Evangelism course materials
(NBC online)
- Glossolalia -- What is it?
- Goals of Nazarene Missions
International
- God's Bulgarian tapestry (ebook)
- Good Grades: How to get
them
- Good news for all people plus an
Advent devotional and how to say Merry Christmas in 99 languages
- Gospel-ready countries
- Grading rubric sample for written
assignments (PDF format)
- Gray matrix (PDF format)
| view as PowerPoint
- President Gresham's dream of
overseas volunteer service for new college graduates
- Groiup Members -- Unwelcome
Ones
- Gulliver's Travels,
McDonald's restaurants and Cultural anthropology |
PDF file of
page
H
- Haggai: Finding resources for
world evangelism (PDF format) |
view as
PowerPoint
- Ham Radio Devotional
Illustrations
- Hand: A way to remember how to pray
for missionaries
- Hand of God at work in current
events
- Harvest time in Haiti!
- Heartwarming stories from the
SNU campus
- Hidden Bible book names puzzle
| 16 hidden Bible book names
solution | 30 hidden Bible book names
solution
- History of Nazarene Missions
International
- Holiness and
Missions -- classic through-the-Bible booklet by Susan Fitkin
- Holiness Today articles (formerly known as Herald of
Holiness)
- Home page
- Homiletical reflections
- How "entire" is entire
sanctification?
-
How weekly Bible Reading assignments are graded
I
- I threw my life away
- Iceberg, concentric circles, and
onions: 3 analogies of culture
- Identifying receptive
people
- Illustrated Bible Life articles
- Inserts for Sunday bulletins (worship
folders)
- Inspirational writings: Nazarene
Amateur Radio Fellowship (NARF) newsletter
- Inspirational devotional
thoughts published in Standard
- Institutions: help or hindrance to
church health and growth?
- Introduction to Biblical Literature
course
- Introduction to Christian
Thought course
- Introduction to Christian Missions
course resources
- Internet pages: Examples of District
and local NMI websites
- Istwa Labib: Bible history
summary in Haitian Creole
- It happened today in world missions history
- Japan: History of Nazarene
work
- Jehovah's Witnesses PowerPoint
presentation on history and beliefs (PDF format)
- Jehovah's Witness: Questions and
answers
- Jonah, the reluctant
missionary (ebook)
- Juggling instructions
(PDF format)
K
- Bible storyline and key
chapters
- The Kingdom strikes back: Signs of the Messiah at work:
Foreword 1. The
Kingdom strikes back
- 2. The blind are
seeing 3. The
lepers are being cured
4. The crippled are
walking 5. The
deaf are hearing 6.
The poor are hearing the Good News 7.
Conclusion
- Knox, Wanda -- biography
by Kimberly Jayne
L
- "Lab" reports for Ministry, Church
and Society course | PDF of PowerPoint explanation
- Leadership Survey (PDF
format)
- Lessons from church health/growth
research
- Lessons from Italy
- Letters to Youth in Mission
participants
- Life's legacy
- Lightbulb: what is it?
- Linguistics course
resources
- Links: Caring for your adopted
missionaries
- Listening productively to boring
lectures
- Litany for commissioning or
sending short-term mission trip teams
- Local church research
(PDF format)
M
- McGavran, Donald and the the
Church Growth movement (PDF format) |
view as PowerPpoint
- Medical Plan giving
advertisement (PDF format)
- Ministry, Church and Society
course requirements (PDF format) |
view as PowerPpoint
- Measuring compassion
advertisement (PDF format)
- Medical Plan giving
- Membership in the Church of the
Nazarene
- Memorial Roll certificate order
form (PDF format)
- Memory passages for
BibLit
- Messianic terminology and
definitions: some help in contextualization
- Milestones on the way to cross-cultural
understanding
- Ministry, Church and Society course
resources
- Missiology
- Mission Briefing: Ideas shaping
world mission outreach today
- Mission Call Coordinator (PDF
format)
- Mission Corps
- Mission to the World -- History of Nazarene Missions
- Mission trip fund raising
ideas
- Missions Bible verses: 500-word
reflections
- Missionary biography
- Missionary interview assignment
suggestions
- Missionary slogans
|
PDF of PowerPoint slides
|
view as
PowerPoint
- Missionary songs -- list of titles
for use in missions services
- Missionary songs -- world
missions words set to familiar tunes
- Missionary statistics
- World missions in the Bible
- Missions dollars in the Church of
the Nazarene -- what they support
- Missions history course
resources
- Missions history lecture
- Missions history timeline: Year-by-year
across the centuries
- Missions training exercise:
Getting out of your comfort zone
- Mobilizing local churches for world
evangelism
- Modern Missionary Movement
course resources
- Mr. Missionary, I Have a Question
Preface
Hawaii, hoes and
holiness
Creole, Christopher Columbus and the
Citadel
Regional Directors, demons and the
Dominican Republic
Mangoes, malnutrition and
modernization
Rice Christians, churches and
Caravan
Missionaries, mail and men
Epilogue
- Monthly NMI emphases
- My Faith Story
worksheet ({PDF format)
N
- Nazarene Amateur Radio Fellowship
(NARF) devotionals -- illustrations from ham radio
- Naarene Bible College course -
Global Evangelism
- Nazarene church
membership
- Nazarene global expansion --
country by country
- Nazarene missions - brief
history
- Nazarene Missions course
resources
- Nazarene Theological
Education around the world (PDF format)
- New pastor welcome gift
bag
- News Writing workshop notes
- Nine habits or characteristics of highly
effective churches
- NMI (Nazarene Missions
International)
- NMI publicity advertisement
(PDF format)
O
- Online characters I've encountered
while teaching online
- Online Learning: Good habits lead to
good grades
- Opportunities for giving to world
missions (PDF format) |
view as PowerPoint
- Oral reports -- BibLit class
- Our balanced attack -- how Nazarenes finance world evangelism
PDF of book
Chapters online:
1. Football and missions
giving
2. Budget: A bad word doing good
things
3. We called it general, but it's very
specific 4.
Peanut butter and jelly
5.
The Nazarene Construction Company
6. I was hungry and you gave
me something 7. Giving more with less pain
8. Doubling
and tripling our investments
9. Cleaning out attics and
garages
Conclusion
- Our history: The Church of the
Nazarene
- Out reach to the nations: 1600
to present
P
- Pasta, pizza and Pinocchio
- Introduction
1. The Leaning
Tower, the Lira, and Women's Lib
2. Italian, Illegal Drugs, and Insulated
Buildings 3.
Fiats, Florence, and Furloughs
4. The Military,
Missionaries, and the Mafia 5. Marco Polo and
Ronald McDonald 6. The Cerratos, Alabaster
Churches, and Work Crews 7. Communism,
Catholicism, and the Charismatics 8. Sincerity,
Self-support, and Sowing the Seed 9. Books,
Broadcasting, and the Bible College 10.
Culture Shock and Carpeting 11. A Word
from My Heart
- Paul McGrady, Mr.
Evangelism
- Persecuted church
stories
- Perspectives on the World Christian
Movement | Resources for Lesson 8
- Phases of short-term missions
experiences
- PowerPoint presentations
- Prayer for the world's
children
- Praying for missionaries
- Printed music and words for classic missions songs and hymns (PDF format)
- "A Missionary Cry"
- "A World-Wide Revival"
- "All the world for Jesus"
- "Arm of the Lord, Awake"
- "Called to all nations" -- an NMI
quadrennial theme song
- "Come, Labor On!"
- "Eternal God, Whose Power
Upholds"
- "Fill Up the Ranks"
- "Fling Out the Banner"
- "For My Sake and the
Gospel's"
- "For the Whole Wide World"
- "Go!"
- "Go Ye Into All the World"
- "Go, Ye Messengers of God"
- "Hark! The Voice of Jesus
Calling"
- "He Was Not Willing"
- "Heralds of Christ"
- "Here Am I, Send Me"
- "Imagine the Harvest" -- NMI
quadrennial theme song
- "Increase my vision"
- "I'll Go Where You Want Me to
Go"
- "Jesus Shall Reign"
- "Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Gates of
Brass"
- "Lord of the Living Harvest
- "Our God Reigns"
- "O Zion, Haste!"
- "Proclaim Our God of
Love"
- "Reach Your Arms Around the
World for Jesus"
- "Ready"
- "Redeem the Time"
- "Rescue the Perishing"
- "Roll On, Thou Mighty Ocean"
- "Saving and Serving"
- "Savior, Sprinkle Many
Nations"
- "Speak, My Lord"
- "Speed Away"
- "Speed the Light"
- "Tell the Blessed Story"
- "The Battle Is the Lord's"
- "The Kingdom is Coming"
- "The Light of the World is
Jesus"
- "The Macedonian Cry"
- "The Morning Light is
Breaking"
- "The Regions Beyond"
- "The Whole Wide World for
Jesus"
- "Thou Whose Almighty Word"
- "Throw Out the Lifeline"
- "The Work Must Go On"
- "We'll Girdle the Globe with
Salvation" -- classic lyrics that mean
we'll go all the way around the globe or we'll cover the globe
- "When the whole
world lives for Him"
- "Ye Christian Heralds"
- "Your Mission"
Q
- Questions for group
presentations -- theology of missions
- Question form --
Christian Thought class (PDF format)
- Questions Raised and Answered by the Old Testament
- Questions Raised and Answered by the New Testament
Books
R
- Raising financial support for
short-term mission trips
- Recipe from Haiti
- Reentry from cross-cultural missions
experience -- Suggestions on how to bounce back
- Reflcting Christ in world missioins:
Cross-cultural Christlikeness
- My Responses to a Jehovah's
Witness Questions
- Responsive Bible Readings for global
missions events
|
PDF of PowerPoint
slides |
view as
PowerPoint
- Risorgimento in Italy: The doors
open to Protestants
- Roman Catholic monastic missionary
strategy
- Rookie Notebook -- Our first nine months as missionaries in Italy
- Ruining a short-term mission
trip
S
- Sample prayer card
- Sample support raising
letters
- Sample assignment papers -- actual papers submitted by students
- Introduction to Missions and Global Evangelism
- Nazarene Missions
- Biography of Orpha Speicher --
medical missionary to India (PDF format)
- Sampling of "topic paper" ideas (PDF
format)
for Mission Strategies course
- Scenarios for Theology of Missions
class
- Schmelzenbach biography --
pioneer missionary to Africa
- Scripture index: Bible passages
used on this site
- Self-examination questions
from John Wesley
- Sermons on holiness --
audio by Dr. Scott Daniels
- Service project suggestions for
Ministry, Church, and Society course assignment
- Shepherd Community -- an urban
ministry center in Indianapolis
- Short-term mission trips
- "Silent Night" -- The story behind
the beloved Christmas carol
- Slogans promoting world
evangelism |
Slogans on PowerPoint
slides (PDF format)
- Slogans that awakened the
Church -- mini-essay series from Engage magazine
- Society for the Picking of Apples
-- a world missions parable
- Songs in other languages
- Speaking in tongues -- some
thoughts about glossolalia
- Speaking through an
interpreter
- Spiritual priorities survey (PDF
format)
|
view as PowerPoint
- Starter questions and candy
gifts for missions council or committee meetings
- Starving children appeals --
How to respond to appeals for donations
- Statistics: The world in the 21st
century
- Story of the Bible in pictures -- a
one-page story of the Bible in graphics (PDF format)
- Strategies of Missions Practices
syllabus (PDF)
- Strategy lecture for Global
Evangelism course (Part 1)
- Strategy lecture for Global
Evangelism course (Part 2)
- Strategy of missions course
resources
- Study guides for exams (PDF format) -- What you need to know in order to do
well.
- Introduction to Biblical literature (BibLit)
- Christian faith and life
- Christian thought
- Introduction to Christian missions
- Church health/growth and Christian missions
- Cultural anthropology
- Ministry, church and society (MCS)
- Regular semester
- May mini-term
- Modern missionary movement (History of missions)
- Mission strategies
- Nazarene Missions
- Theology of missions
- World's Living Religions
- Summary paper instructions --
Cultural Anthropology
(Bridge)
- Supplementary Bible crossword
puzzles
- Support money
- Survivor care kit for missions
council leaders
- Susanna Wesley defines sin
- Survivor kit for courses
- Syllabi for courses
- Syllabus: your course
road map
T
- Take courage! Pran
kouraj!
- Tate: Was that Adam's last
name?
- Terms of Service
- Thanksgiving: What does the Bible
say? (PDF format)
- Theology of missions course
materials
- Theology of missions questions for
group presentations
- Third-culture kids
- Three Missionary Profiles --
Readers' theatre script for Lottie Moon, C.T. Studd and Hudson Taylor and his two
wives (PDF format)
- Tips for online class
discussions
- Tips for safe travel
- Top 5 missions videos
- Top Ten ways to fix writing
problems
- Traditional Religions course
materials
- Travel checklist for short-term
mission trips
- Two churches' attitudes toward
world missions
U
- The unevangelized: Will they be
lost? Answers to an oft-asked question
- Used accordians needed in
Haiti
- Using Theological Education by
Extension to teach Biblical theology in Haiti (PDF format)
- Unwelcome group
members
V
- Videos for NBC's Global Evangelism course
- Volunteer missions
work
- Voodoo spirit possession -- Is it
demonic?
- Voodoo rara band in Haiti
W
- Welcome, New Pastors
- Wesleyan perspective article (PDF
format)
- Wesleyan perspectdive study
sheet
- What do you see?
- What does a holiness minister
do?
- What we believe and teach:
Questions and answers
- What Mks wish churches
knew
- At what age do Americans become
Christian ? Pie chart by age
groups
- Who is the real Hindu? (PDF
format)
- Will the real me please stand
up?
- William "Bill" Borden: No Reserve.
No Retreat. No Regret.
- Witnessing scenarios: How
would you respond?
- Word scramble puzzles
- Word search puzzles
- World Evangelism Broadcast
offering
- World population as a village of 100
people
- World Week of Prayer (PDF
format)
publicity
- World religions chart (PDF
format)
- World Religions course
resources
- Writing checklist
- Writings by Howard
Culbertson
Y
- "Your will be done" -- World
Missions in the Lord's Prayer