Professional writer and speaker Kay Marshall Strom wanted to find out for herself what happened when families around the world received gifts purchased through catalogs like our Harvest of Hope gift catalog. In this book, released July 2007, Kay shows how small purchases like a goat or water well can put a third world family or village on the road to economic health. Kay offers an invitation to discover the power and joy of giving that changes lives—yours, and the lives of people all over the world.

Making Your Partnership Work, Daniel Rickett ($15.95)

Daniel Rickett reflected on 20 years of experience and found the essential components to be a blend of vision, relationship, and results. In Making Your Partnership Work, he shows how to build a partnership by focusing on nine imperatives. Making Your Partnership Work is like having a personal coach eager to help you build your ministry partnership.

 "The growing global nature of the Church makes partnership between East/West and North/South an essential part of our future. This book points to key issues that need to be considered, particularly between Western and non-Western 'partners.' You will find the check-lists particularly helpful as guidelines for planning and Kingdom action."

— Phill Butler, Founder/President, InterDev

Follow Anand Chaudhari’s inspiring journey from Brahmin Priest to minister of Christ. "This book constructs an authentic, nuanced, and sympathetic account of what it is like to live, learn, be converted, and minister within the context of a Hindu society. Anand Chaudhari, his family, and his nation come alive!"

— Dr. Jonathan J. Bonk, Overseas Ministries Study Center.

Born on one of Indonesia’s remotest islands, Chris Marantika has risen to become one of the world’s trend-setters. From its inception, the development of his hands-on approach for "putting the theological training to the test of grassroots ministry" has had a profound impact on the growth of the church, not only in his native land, but throughout the developing world. I Cannot Dream Less is Dr. Marantika’s extraordinary journey from a remote island to the heart of a nation!

John and Helen Dekker gave themselves to the Dani tribes people of Irian Jaya, helping them discover the gospel of Jesus Christ and their destiny as helpers of other tribes. Today, the 79 churches of the Toli Valley, with 13,000 baptized believers, have sent out 65 couples to other tribes needing the gospel.

A chapter from a present-day Book of Acts, Torches of Joy is a model for cross-cultural mission strategy and one of this century’s most striking chronicles of God’s grace and power.

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