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From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is history at its best. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya is readable, informative, gripping, and above all, honest. It helps readers understand the life and role of a missionary through real life examples of missionaries throughout history. We see these men and women as fallible and human in their failures as well as their successes. These great leaders of missions are presented as real people,...

of people that set out for the Holy Land over a two-hundred-year period (1095–1291) caused unspeakable damage, and tens of thousands of lives were lost. Though the early crusades were favored with a degree of military success, those gains were lost in the end. So bitter was the animosity of Muslims toward Christians that even today the memory has not been erased. Not all Christians of this period, however, believed that military force was the appropriate way to deal with the Muslims. During the early
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