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The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
3) Honor bound
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Love and honor (Bridgeman) volume 1
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English
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"Medical missionary Cynthia Myers is trained to save lives. Captain Rick Norton of the Special Forces A-Team is ordered to take them. When Cynthia's past catches up to her, they must learn to put aside their differences to make it out alive from the treacherous jungles of a war-torn African country"--
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 1
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English
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Emily faces many challenges and doubters as a single woman opening a church in a frontier community.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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Français
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A revisionist perspective on Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. This film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné is not,...
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Elder McLeod--outspoken, surly, a brash American--is nearing the end of his mission in Brazil when he is given a new partner--Elder Passos, a devout, ambitious Brazilian who found salvation and solace in the church after his mother's early death. The two men are at first suspicious of each other, and their work together is frustrating, fruitless. That changes when a beautiful woman and her husband offer the missionaries a chance to be heard.
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English
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Priscilla knew God wanted her to be a missionary, not a wife. The missionary board declares the only way she can serve is to be married, and so she embarks on a marriage in name only... a marriage that will test her spirit... and the new longings of her heart...
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The Good Book Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When Betsey joined a missionary voyage to Hawaii, everyone was shocked. A single woman who was born enslaved going on mission? How extraordinary!
Follow Betsey on her exciting journey across the Pacific Ocean to the shores of beautiful Hawaii. Include notes for parents, a photograph of Betsey, and a timeline of her inspiring life.
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Reluctant prophet (Nancy N. Rue) volume 3
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David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Despite the adversaries who threaten those closest to her, Allison Chamberlain finds that she has not gone far enough until she gets the divine nudge to care for a young prostitute and learns to love as God does--no matter what the consequences.
14) Mother Teresa
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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The drama of an English missionary couple. Posted to South Africa they become anti-apartheid activists and are jailed. Released, they move to Botswana where she gives birth to twins, but a black servant abducts them and only one boy is recovered. Although they have more children, the incident poisons their lives. By the author of An Experiment in Love.
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Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie lives alone in the mountains of Alaska. Clay is totally focused on his goal of being a missionary like his father-- until he meets a young, independent Indian woman with the most striking blue eyes he's ever seen. Will he be forced to choose between ministering to the natives, and the quiet nudging of his heart?
18) The letters
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Based on the true story of Mother Teresa, the film explores the life's work of Nobel Peace Prize recipient and one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Her selfless devotion to helping the poor changed hearts, transformed lives and inspired millions throughout the world. Told through a series of personal letters written to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor.
19) Mother Teresa
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Presents information about Mother Teresa, from her childhood in Macedonia and her lifelong goal to help the sick and poor to her relief work in Calcutta and her status as a saint.
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2002
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English
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Cancer is a short word for something that has such a devastating impact. Why would God allow it to strike Sylvia Bryan -- and why now, of al times, when her mission work back in Nicaragua is bearing such fruit and beset by such needs.
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