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What in the World is God Doing?: The Essentials of Global Missions, 7th ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Veteran missionary, missiologist, and theologian C. Gordon Olson has distilled his knowledge and experience to produce a very readable introductory text for missions that is marked by its balance between theory and practice. It has become a standard text in Christian universities, seminaries, and Bible colleges for a decade and a half. It covers five dimensions of world missions, including the...

missionary must go somewhere. This is well illustrated from the events of World War II. All Americans were mobilized for the war effort. Housewives collected frying-pan oil; metals were collected from cellars and garages; many grew ‘victory gardens’; housewives went to work in factories for the first time. Everybody was mobilized to win the war against the Axis powers. But not everybody could go into the Armed Services, and not even all of them could go to the front and personally be in the fight.
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