Missions

Help your students engage in the mission of God!
Check out these specific resources to:

Equip Students to Serve in Missions

Learn the Why of missions

Promote Missional Engagement

Discover Ways for Students to GO!

LEARN

Books:

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself — Steve Corbett
Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches That Send — J.D. Greear
What are you doing with your life? — J. D. Greear
Live Life on Purpose: God’s Purpose, Your Life, One Journey — Claude Hickman
Foreign to Familiar — Sarah A. Lanier
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence — David Livermore
Finish the Mission: Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged — John Piper and David Mathis, eds.
Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions — John Piper

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream — David Platt
As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students — Alvin A. Reid. 2013.
The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected — Nik Ripken. 2013.
The Missionary Call: Find Your Place in God’s Plan for the World — M. David Sills
The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission — Christopher J. H. Wright
The Forgotten Way — Alan Hirsch
Unscripted — Jeff Iorg
Foundations: Core Missiology Concepts — IMB

Periodicals:

IMB Foundations Magazine will help you see how God’s Word affirms your role in his global purpose and informs your missions practices. Learn how Ten Core Missiological Convictions, Six Marks of a Disciple, and Twelve Characteristics of a Healthy Church guide how IMB aims to fulfill the missionary task. Then consider how these foundational values can help us work together to take the gospel to every nation.

EQUIP

Where does a student’s education and career fit with the idea of going to the nations as an ambassador for Christ? They can use their job skills and gifts to live and work among the world’s unreached peoples. IMB offers these “Roadmaps” with specific guidance for the fields of allied health, business, engineering, nursing, physician, and teaching, as well as choosing as major.