The true story of a school of missionary kids who were interned in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II. Meet the heroes classmates and teachers who contributed to the faith and growth of children in an unusually challenging situation.

Interest level: High school through adult

170 pages

ISBN 9971-972-71-9

Desperate for change three Manobo believers asked God to send a missionary to Taguangu. At that very time God called Ria Zebua from the tiny island of Nias in Indonesia to take the gospel of salvation to the Manobo people. But to which village should Ria go?

A Secret Hope tells how God directed her and a team of Filipino missionaries to the Manobo of Taguangu - that lair of crooks and ruffians. There they saw God do the impossible again and again.

ISBN 1-929122-18-8

128 pages

ISBN 1-929122-01-2

316 pages

160 pages

ISBN 0-929122-09-8

112 pages

ISBN 1-929122-00-4

The five years that followed World War II were the most significant in the history of modern missions. They saw the door close on nearly one quarter of the world's population as China, the world's largest mission field, came under communist domination.

Mission work had often been dangerous in China, but for over a century Western misssionaries had freely entered China to preach all across its vast regions. But by the end of 1950 all that had changed. Most Protestant missions had already withdrawn. Now the largest mission in the world, the China Inland Mission, realized that open Christian witness in China had become impossible.

But did the decision come to late? This book tells the inspiring story of their exodus from China.

192 pages

ISBN 1-929122-04-7

What frightened Mei most was that when her husband, Han, was angry, he exercised no restraint. With one hand, he would hold her hands behind her back and with the other, he would pound her, punching ruthlessly.

One day Han took Mei to a bar. ‘Stay and work here today. I’ll come back later and get you,’ he said. Mei worked as usual, serving drinks, but when one customer wanted more, she went straight to her manager. She hadn’t agreed to anything like that. But the manager was unrelenting. ‘You must do it!’ he ordered.

Fuming, Mei went to the phone and called her husband. His words were unbelievable. ‘Just stay there, and do what they tell you,’ said the man on the other end of the line. The man who, for a hefty sum, had sold his own wife into prostitution.

Mei, like many of Taiwan’s working class, was entangled in abuse, addiction and idol worship. Her life seemed hopeless, with no way out. Could anyone save her?

As Mei lay in bed, a cool breeze swept over her. There was no window or fan, but by now she was used to such strange occurrences. The breeze blew into her and she started to tremble. ‘

Go to the top of the house.’

At the sound of the voice, the spirits that usually surrounded Mei scattered. She shuffled to the roof.

‘Hold out your hands.’

Mei extended her arms, her body forming the shape of a cross. Two beams of light came down and touched her hands.

‘I am huo shen, the fire God,’ Mei thought she heard. Years would pass before she realised what had really been said – the difference lying in two typically insignificant Chinese characters -‘I am huo zhe de shen, the living God.’

ISBN 978-0-8254-6158-3

432 pages

Hudson Taylor was a teenager when God told him to go to China. Though he was alone, broke and critically ill, he hung on to that goal and to the God who was sending him. Would God be enough? Danger and adventure abound in this true story of a man who dared to risk and trust.

Interest level: Junior High age through adult.

112 pages

ISBN 1-929122-07-1

Sadie Custer was determined to spread the knowledge of the Word of God among the Chinese and other Asian peoples at any cost. In that mindset she abandoned herself to incredibly varied modes of travel and accomodations, especially in old China. She was game for just about anything, You will find yourself shaking your head in amazement as you read. This is a closeup look at a life lived simply at God's disposal.

292 pages

ISBN 1-929122-25-X

144 pages

ISBN 1-929122-08-X

The most definitive biography of Hudson Taylor is the James Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, in 7 volumes (1981-1989).

Book 1 - Barbarians at the Gates (Out of Print)
Book 2 - Over the Treaty Wall (Out of Print)
Book 3 - If I Had a Thousand Lives
Book 4 - Survivor's Pact (Out of Print)
Book 5 - Refiner's Fire (Out of Print)
Book 6 - Assault on the Nine
Book 7 - It is not Death to Die

If I Had a Thousand Lives is the third in a series of seven books. It tells of Hudson Taylor's decision to leave the Chinese Evangelisation Society and 'live by faith' at a time of momentous upheaval in China, his marriage to Maria Dyer and the completion of his medical studies back in London. At last, in 1865, the China Inland Mission was born.

528 pages

ISBN: 0-340-32392-2

The most definitive biography of Hudson Taylor is the James Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, in 7 volumes (1981-1989).

Book 1 - Barbarians at the Gates (Out of Print)
Book 2 - Over the Treaty Wall (Out of Print)
Book 3 - If I Had a Thousand Lives
Book 4 - Survivor's Pact (Out of Print)
Book 5 - Refiner's Fire (Out of Print)
Book 6 - Assault on the Nine
Book 7 - It is not Death to Die

The sixth volume starts with Hudson Taylor, still half paralysed by an accident and burdened with the desire to reach all China for Christ, beginning to see his plans fulfilled: the volunteers to reach nine vast provinces, with over one hundred and fifty million inhabitants, are selected.

No sooner were the first eighteen ready to travel than the murder of a British consular offical and the ensuing court intrigues jeapardises their carefully laid plans. This was an unlikely start for what were to prove the most dramatic ten years of expansion for the China Inland Mission. The frontiers recede; the work grows; the first women missionaries are commissioned; schools are started; countless Chinese colleagues prove the key to advance in the work for which, in 1887, the future seems bright and full of promise.

539 pages

ISBN: 0-340-42629-2

The most definitive biography of Hudson Taylor is the James Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, in 7 volumes (1981-1989).

Book 1 - Barbarians at the Gates (Out of Print)
Book 2 - Over the Treaty Wall (Out of Print)
Book 3 - If I Had a Thousand Lives
Book 4 - Survivor's Pact (Out of Print)
Book 5 - Refiner's Fire (Out of Print)
Book 6 - Assault on the Nine
Book 7 - It is not Death to Die

The seventh and final volume. Some called the China Inland Mission and its principles a 'rope of sand': it would disintegrate on Hudson Taylor's death. Yet despite many difficult moments, we see it grow from strength to strength and mature following his death. Despite the Boxer rebellion, incredible sufferings, the victory of the communists, new attempts to expell all foreigners that succeed under Mao, the Chinese church, freed from all foreign influence and support grew as never before.

718 pages

ISBN: 0-340-50270-3

Steer has pulled together key events, character traits and spiritual principles that formed the pioneer missionary and founder of OMF. This is a very readable account of Taylor`s life, his losses and the God who provided for him.

"His life was impelled by a growing confidence in the faithfulness of God." -- from the forward by Billy Graham

375 pages

ISBN: 1-85078-408-6

Husband, father, physician, evangelist, visionary and founder of the China Inland Mission - James Hudson Taylor lived his life for God with intention and purpose. In the process, God revealed to him the secret to joy and satisfaction, no matter what circumstances surrounded him.

In the course of his life Talor knew poverty, hardship, loss, frustration and the difficulties of ministering in the challenging country of China. He knew that he could fully and completely trust and depend upon God to meet his every need, all the time, no matter how insurmountable the obstacles appeared.

194 pages

ISBN 1-929122-32-2

232 pages

ISBN 9971-972-68-9

"Much of the spiritual teaching one hears does not seem to work. But I found that the Cross of Jesus Christ worked. I felt like a man perishing of thirst, to whom some beautiful, clear cold water had begun to flow ... I had so much to learn! It seemed as if God was saying: 'You are crying to me to do a big work among the Lisu; I am wanting to do a big work in you yourself.'"

James Fraser was only 22 years old when he abandoned a promising engineering career and went to China. At first sight of the Lisu tribespeople of Yunnan province he felt an immediate affection for them. For the rest of his life, he traveled on horseback over rugged mountains, laboring to bring the Lisu the good news of Christ. Packed with personal letters, insightful anecdotes, and riveting stories of missionary life in China, this superb biography by his daughter shines with God's constant faithfulness and power over evil.

271 pages

ISBN 1-929122-05-5

160 pages

ISBN 981-3009-00-4

184 pages

ISBN 1-929122-13-6

The moving story of Jim and Louise Morris and their years of labor among the Pwo Karen people of Thailand. When would God fulfill His promise to release these people from bondage?

160 pages

ISBN 981-3009-14-4