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Recently someone at one of our seminars asked if I could recommend some more reading material, so I decided I would set up this page for those of you who had been to one of our seminars and wanted suggestions for where to go from there. I'll try to add to this page from time to time.

Please note that these resources are hopefully helpful in one way or another, but we don't necessarily endorse all the contents. Note: If some of the books don't show up, try reloading the page. Click below to go to the appropriate section:

2000 Years of Missions Seminar

Childrens' Ministry Seminar

Maximizing Your Short Term Missions Trip

Sad to say, many of the books I used are out of print or hard to find. However, here are a few. Just click the graphic or book title for more info...

<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> Portraits of Faith: Short stories of Canadians of faith through history.	<MAP NAME="boxmap-p6"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1, 140, 83, 150" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x150.gif" width="120" height="150" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p6" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> The story of the Goforth family, Canadian missionaries with the China Inland Mission.	<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> The story of J Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission.
<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> A collection of key articles on missions, from various perspectives. Includes missions history, cultural issues, trends, etc.	<MAP NAME="boxmap-p6"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1, 140, 83, 150" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x150.gif" width="120" height="150" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p6" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> A survey of missions history.	<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> A survey of missions history.
<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> Statistics and prayer requests for every country on earth.	<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> Patrick's story from his own lips	<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> Patrick's place in history
<MAP NAME="boxmap-p6"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1, 140, 83, 150" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x150.gif" width="120" height="150" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p6" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> The story of Joy Ridderhof and Gospel Recordings.

A few helpful websites:
Biography of William Carey online
Missionary E-Texts - a guide to some of the important historical missionary texts online
Christian History Magazine on David Livingstone
William Carey's famous pamphlet: An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.
David Brainerd's Blog - a blog version of the pioneer missionary's journal

Maximizing your Short Term Missions Trip

Books:

Dealing with conflict - a must for any missionary!	Another point of view start seeing things the way other cultures do	<MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/cottrillcompa-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> Statistics and prayer requests for every country on earth.
A good overview of current issues in world missions	An investigation of why the Church is so often not* reaching the world.*	An excellent overview of biblical missions and current confusion over what missions is.

First steps to the mission field - an excellent starting point for anyone.
Can also be downloaded for free from the World Evangelical Alliance.

Websites:

Teams Commissioned for Christ International
Helpful training materials for short term missions. Written for an American audience, but still has something for everyone. Home of the "Go Prepared" video series.

ShortTermMissions.com
Searchable database of short term opportunities and helpful articles.

AboutMissions.com
A database of missions opportunities that you can browse.

World Christian Resource Directory
From the Gateway Center for World Mission, a database of resources and opportunities in the area of short term missions and beyond.

Operation World
The official website. Country of the day, plus links to missions and other resources. Buy other OW resources, including my favourite the daily calendar.

WEA Mission Commission
From the World Evangelical Alliance, an excellent place to look for missions opportunities.

World Missions Atlas Project
Missions maps and country profiles for many parts of the world.

CottrillCompass.com missions page
A few related resources right here!

Mission agencies:
Each of these missions have both short term and long term opportunities:

International Teams

Frontiers

SEND International

CrossWorld (formerly UFM - Unevangelized Fields Mission)

WorldTeam

Greater Europe Mission

CAM International

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