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Beautifully Rendered History of C&MA Missions
Niklaus has with this work provided a sequel to his history of the C&MA, "All for Jesus."While the former work gave a good explanation for the history of the movement and why foreign missions were emphasized, this book gives the details overseas and chronicles the growth of the mission fields themselves.

Despite the C&MA being a North American based denomination, the vast majority of growth has taken place overseas,Several of these planted national Churches have exceeded the size of the US Church and are functioning as their own Church and missions sending organizations.This is an amazing legacy and a clear model upon which to base missions efforts.

A great deal of this occurred because since before WWII the C&MA took the strategy of rejecting colonial evangelism and sought instead for the missionary to plant the church and then rather than directing it indefinitely to raise up indigent leadership and then step aside and allow the Church to form.

The fruits of this approach has been many countries closed to other missions movements, open to the Alliance because they do not threaten their culture or sense of independence.When war, famine or political upheaval have thrown missionaries out of countries, where other Churches have foundered without missionary presence and leadership, Alliance works have thrived because the missionary was just an outside consultant, not the key to the movement.

This book is rife with wonderful stories of faith and martyrdom.It presents a legacy that is amazing.

This work, more than any other, makes me proud to have been a part of the C&MA.Whatever other flaws there are, and they are there, the bottom line is that God has used the C&MA to reach many areas of the world and ours is a model that many other look to in hopes for the same success.That is a legacy and and hope for the future.Whatever issues remain to work out, this type of impact is worth working to continue!

An important book for the C&MA but also one for evangelical Christendom to look to, to rejoice in and to emulate in outreach. ... Read more

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A passion to help the suffering
Realizing the power and love of God at a young age I soon took painful account of the amount of human suffering everywhere. The dissonance was frustrating. It seemed that humanity was (and is) thirsting to death while sitting next to an artesian well; dying of hunger and begging, cup in hand, while squatting at the entrance of a modern-day supermarket. By the way, (and to comlete the symbolism) our father owns the supermarket!

In the first three chapters I spell out the myriad of ways in which God has exercised his healing heart upon his children in the time of Abraham all through the scriptures up through the era of Jesus and the Apostles. The awakening of the healing movement in the late 1800's is retraced in chapter four. Incidentally most all of the participants in the modern day healing movement can be traced to God working in the hearts of those who laid groundwork between the latter 1800's and early/mid 1900's.

The final chapter is dedicated to a couple dozen testimonials; stories of those who have been miraculously healed and are alive today to tell the tale.

The book includes a chart of healings found in the 'old' testament plus a comprehensive chart of the healings Jesus performed. There is also an original chart of the 11 Hebrew words for "healing"; they are listed and illustrated to enhance understanding of the Judeo-Christian roots of the concept of healing.

The objective of this book is to help people become fully aware of the power of God to heal them in body, soul and spirit.It is ultimately to assist people in the life and death struggle to realize that God is very real, very near, altogether compassionate and ready to touch them.They need only to respond to His beckoning of them.

Incidentally God's beckoning includes pain. Our problem is that nothing is so effective to get our attention.

My hope is that in reading this book you will be aware (perhaps for the first time) of the power of God AND the access that you have to His power through His Son Christ Jesus.His Son Jesus is to be enjoyed and shared.

D.W.T. ... Read more

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pink paperback. 272 pages. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" ... Read more

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Blue cloth, table of mission fields, numerous b/w photos, 22 b/w maps. Large color fold-out world map. Errata slip. ... Read more