Are you looking to challenge your life in Missions?
We have compiled a list of a 101 amazing books on missions! You will find biographies that will fan your flame of passion, missiology books and more. If you need a little encouragement or even a hardcore challenge, you’ll find it on this list.
In no particular order…
1. Finish the Mission: Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged
By: John Piper, David Mathis, David Platt and Ed Stetzer
2. Let the Nations Be Glad: the Supremacy of God in Missions
By: John Piper
3. Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Strategies
By: Gailyn Van Rheenen
4. Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities and Churches
By: Peter Greer, Chris Horst, Anna Haggard
5. Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey (Encountering Mission)
By: A. Scott Moreau, Gary R. Corwin, Gary B. McGee
6. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative
By: Christopher J. H. Wright
7. Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence
By: David A. Livermore
8. Short Term Missions Workbook: From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens
By: Tim Dearborn
9. The Book of Missionary Heroes
By: Basil Mathews
10. Introduction to Global Missions
By: Zane Pratt, M. David Sills, Jeff K. Walters
11. Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations
By: Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
12. The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
By: Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, Dwight J. Friesen
13. The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission
By: Christopher J. H. Wright
14. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions
By: Ruth A. Tucker
15. Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation
By: Jason Mandryk
16. The Missionary Call: Find Your Place in God’s Plan for the World
By: M. David Sills
17. Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion
By: Dana L. Robert
18. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
By: Philip Jenkins
19. Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting in Around the World
By: Duane Elmer
20. Cross-Cultural Conflict: Building Relationships for Effective Ministry
By: Duane Elmer
21. Contextualization in World Missions: Mapping and Assessing Evangelical Models
By: A. Scott Moreau
22. Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally
By: David J. Hesselgrave
23. Bible and Mission: Christian Mission in a Postmodern World
By: Richard Bauckham
24. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader
Ralph D. Winter (Editor), Steven C. Hawthorne (Editor)
25. A Martyr’s Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause
By: Marvin Newell
26. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself
By: Steve Corbett, Brian Tikkert, John Perkins (Forward), David Platt (Forward)
27. Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot – and Cold – Climate Cultures
By: Sarah A. Lanier
28. Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
By: Duane Elmer
29. Western Christians in Global Mission: What’s the Role of the North American Church?
By: Paul Borthwick
30. Live Dead Journal: 30 Days of Prayer for Unreached Peoples, 30 Days of Challenge
By: Dick Brogden (Compiler)
31. When Missions Shapes the Mission: You and Your Church Can Reach the World
By: David Horner (Author), David Platt (Forward)
32. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?
By: Roland Allen
33. The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
By: Nik Ripken
34. The Insanity of Obedience: Walking with Jesus in Tough Places
By: Nik Ripken
35. Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live
By: David Platt and Francis Chan
36. Dispatches from the Front: Stories of the Gospel Advance in the World’s Most Difficult Places
By: Tim Keesee
37. In the Land of Blue Burquas
By: Kate McCord
38. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream
By: David Platt
39. Risk is Right: Better to Lose Your Life than to Waste It
By: John Piper
40. Don’t Waste Your Life
By: John Piper
41. Peace Child: an Unforgettable Story of Primitive Jungle Treachery in the 20th Century
By: Don Richardson
42. Bruchko: The Astounding True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe
By: Bruce Olson
43. The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer that Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World
By: Richard Stearns
44. Reaching and Teaching: A Call to Great Commission Obedience
By: David Sills
45. Jim Elliot
By: Jane Benge and George Benge
46. Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
By: Sherwood G. Lingenfelter, Marvin K. Mayers
47. Christian Mission in the Modern World
By: John Stott (1974)
48. Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
By: Dr. Timothy Tennent
49. Share Jesus Without Fear
By: William Fay and Linda Evans Shepherd
50. Encountering Theology of Mission (Encountering Mission): Biblical Foundations, Historical Developments and Contemporary Issues
By: Craig Ott
51. God’s Global Mosaic: What We Can Learn from Christians Around the World
By: Paul-Gordon Chandler, John Stott (Forward)
52. Cross-Cultural Partnership: Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission
By: Mary T. Lederleitner
53. African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa (Publications on Ethnology Vol. 37)
By: David E. Maranz
54. Western Christians in Global Mission: What’s the Role of the North American Church?
By: Paul Borthwick
55. Leading Across Cultures: Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church
By: James Plueddemann
56. Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions on Christian Missions Today
By: David Hesselgrave
57. Introducing Christian Mission Today: Scripture, History and Issues
By: Michael W. Goheen
58. 7 Classic Missionary Biographies: Raymond Lull, David Brainerd, Henry Martin, William Carey, Hudson Taylor, John Paton, Amy Carmichael
By: Amy Carmichael, Hudson Taylor, John Paton
59. Understanding Christian Missions: Participation in Suffering and Glory
By: Scott W. Sunquist
60. I Dare to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Women’s Encounter with God
By: Bilquis Sheikh
61. God’s Smuggler
By: Brother Andrew, John Sherrill and Elizabeth Sherrill
62. The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
By: Brother Yun
63. Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World
By: Don Richardson
64. Through Gates of Splendor
By: Elizabeth Elliot
65. Anthropological Insights for Missionaries
By: Paul Hiebert
66. Woman to Woman: Sharing Jesus with a Muslim Friend
By: Joy Loewen
67. Miniskirts, Mothers, and Muslims: A Christian Woman in a Muslim land
By: Christine Mallouhi
68. Honor and Shame: Unlocking the Door
By: Roland Muller
69. Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus
By: Jerry Trousdale
70. A Muslim’s Heart (Pilgrimage Growth Guide)
By: Edward Huskins
71. The Crescent Through the Eyes of the Cross; Insights from an Arab Christian (The Navigators Reference Library)
By: Nabeel Jabbour
72. John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides
By: James Paton
73. A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
By: Elisabeth Elliot
74. Becoming a Courageous Christian
By: Bill Hybels & Mark Mittelberg
75. Funding Your Ministry
By: Scott Morton
76. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (American Society of Missiology)
By: David L. Bosch
77. Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology: Missional Church and World Christianity
By: Paul S. Chung
78. The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone (Christian Doctrine in Global Perspective)
By: Samuel Escobar
79. The Great Commission & Evangelism and the History of World Missions
By: Martin Klauber (Editor), Scott M. Manetsch (Editor), D.A. Carson (Contributor), & 7 More
80. Contextualization in World Missions: Mapping and Assessing Evangelical Models
By: A. Scott Moreau
81. Short Term Missions Workbook: from Mission Tourists to Global Citizens
By: Tim Dearborn
82. Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God
By: Dustin Willis, Aaron Coe and David Platt
83. Mission Possible: The Wonderful Story of God and a Wycliffe Translator in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea
By: Marilyn Laszlo, Franklin Graham (Forward), Luci Tumas (Contributor)
84. A Beginner’s Guide to Crossing Cultures, Making Friends in a Multicultural World
By: Patty Lane
85. Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World?
By: Tom Doyle (Author), Greg Webster (Contributor)
86. Planting Missional Churches
By: Ed Stetzer
87. Global Mission Handbook: A Guide for Cross cultural Service
By: Steve Hoke & Bill Taylor
88. The Changing Face of Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends (Encountering Mission)
By: Michael Pocock, Gailyn Van Rheenen, Douglas McConnell
89. Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
By: Soong-Chan Rah
90. Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity
By: Miriam Adeney
91. Discovering the Mission of God: Best Missional Practices for the 21st Century
By: Mike Barnett (Editor), Robin Martin (Editor)
92. Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church
By: J.D. Payne
93. Crossing Cultures with Ruth: Lessons on Thriving in Mission
By: James Nelson
94. Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
By: J.I. Packer, Mark Dever (Forward)
95. Evangelism: How to Share the Gospel Faithfully
By: John MacArthur (Author), Grace Community Church Staff (Contributor)
96. On Being A Missionary
By: Thomas Hale
97. Ask a Missionary: Time Tested Answers From Those Who’ve Been There Before
By: John McVay
98. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
By: Nabeel Qureshi and Lee Strobel
99. A Wind in the House of Islam: How God is Drawing Muslims Around the World to Faith in Jesus Christ
By: David Garrison
100. Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary
By: Greg Finke
101. End of the Spear
By: Steve Saint