Missions Resources

Learn about God's work around the world through everyday people with these Bible studies, books, videos, and more!

Bible Studies

Biblical insights for discipleship across cultures.

Recommended Reading

Inspiring reads on missions and gospel outreach.

Videos

Stories from real-life mission work worldwide.

Bible Studies

Biblical insights for discipleship across cultures.

Responding Biblically to Poverty, Corruption & Injustice

This in-depth Bible study can help you trace topics that have concerned God’s people from Genesis through Revelation. Navigators who contributed to this study as authors come from (and have ministered in) Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America, so the study’s perspective is truly international.

Navigating Pioneering Missions

The authors maintain that we need to take the gospel to under-reached nations, to reinvigorate a pioneering missions culture among those populations that are extremely difficult to access. This study dives into laying a foundational generation for movement of the gospel in another culture or nation.

The Sacred-Secular Mistake

This collection of interviews, thoughts, and Scripture from leading Navigator disciplemakers helps make sense of God’s calling and how He uses various backgrounds, skills sets, and vocations in building His Kingdom.

Prayer and Devotional Guide for Prayer Trios

As revealed by the Navigator missionary to the Middle East who wrote “A Weekly Guide for International Prayer Trios,” she for years dealt with “SMOG” (Seeking My Own Glory). She pursued her own ministry goals more than God. This 12-week study and prayer guide helps you avoid SMOG as you join in prayer with others.

Navigating Cross-Cultural Missions

Developed by about thirty experienced Navigator leaders from around the globe, this study will expand your vision and understanding of the most critical issues facing our cross-cultural missionaries today.

The Backpack

The New Zealand Navigators wrote this Bible study that helps us explore what we need to know on our life journey and things that help us relate to God and others along the way.

Prayer and God’s Promises for the Nations

A seven-day YouVersion reading plan and Navigators World Missions study.

Written for GOvember prayer, Prayer and God’s Promises for the Nations begins with Jesus’ call to pray then highlights Old and New Testament promises we can trust God to fulfill.

Pathways to the Nations

An eight-day YouVersion reading plan and Navigators World Missions study.

Over centuries, the Kingdom of God has moved through His people into the world along pathways such as missionary trips, business, and coming alongside people in poverty. Pathways to the Nations illuminates different means God uses for us to deliver His message to other cultures.

Driven: Compelled to Missions by Christ’s Love

A 14-day YouVersion reading plan and Navigators World Missions study.

Paul said, “Christ’s love compels us” to be His ambassadors. Through 14 days of daily devotional studies, Driven examines the life of Jesus and the people of God who were driven to enter into different cultures for Him.

When Helping Hurts

Corbett and Fikkert’s book explains how poverty alleviation and our passion as missions-minded Christians can work in tandem—and why they often do not. They help the reader think through how some traditional missional approaches to aiding others can work at cross-purposes with actual assistance and the gospel. Beyond that, they suggest what we can do about it, from short- to long-term missions involvement.

Something Needs to Change

The author of Radical tells how God moved him to tears during a trip to the Himalyas. Platt reveals that he had already spoken and written clinically, almost unfeelingly, about the urgent need for holistic gospel outreach. “But when I came face to face with men, women, and children in urgent spiritual and physical need, the wall in my heart was breached.

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

This memoir seeks to humanize a religious people numbering about two billion, many of whom seek God daily. The author tells of his experiences as a God seeker who befriends a believer in Jesus. What follows provides an account of both the costs and rewards of his decision to follow Jesus.

Peace Child

The Sawi people had in their background a redemptive story that missionaries uncover and relate in a novel way. The revelation of the story’s meaning among the Sawi leads to surprising turns in their understanding of the Good News.

Foreign to Familiar

How can turning down an offer of coffee lead to an emotional meltdown on an airplane? Sarah A. Lanier, a student of overseas cultural misunderstandings, explores inherent differences between hot- and cold-climate cultures and how we can work to avoid innocent offenses and hurt feelings that can hinder sharing Jesus with others.

Christian Heroes, Then and Now series

Among the books in their series, the Benjes tell the stories of missionaries such as Gladys Aylward, William Carey, Amy Carmichael, Jim Elliot, Adoniram Judson, Eric Liddell, and Lottie Moon.

Bruchko

When nineteen-year-old Bruce Olson ventures into the jungles of Colombia in 1961, he cannot foresee how closely his life of faith will become entwined with the Motilone-Bari people. Olson relates his decades-long story and that of a people group through whom the love of Jesus has been multiplied.

Amy Carmichael: Beauty for Ashes

Irish missionary Amy Carmichael served half a century in India, helping rescue young girls from temple prostitution and engaging others in her faith. Iain Murray’s biography delves into her struggles with illness, her determined—even headstrong—nature, and her magnetic personality.

The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures

Depending on people’s view of the world, they may grasp the gospel better when hearing it differently. Jason Georges examines shame-honor, fear-power, and guilt-innocence paradigms in the Bible and explains how sharing Jesus from the worldview of one’s audience can help relate the Good News more effectively.

Mission Videos

Stories from real-life mission work worldwide.

Check out more videos on our Navigators World Missions YouTube Channel.

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