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Youth & Adult NMI Mission Books
** Indicates books also recommended for youth

Footprints**
by Bruce Blowers, David Blowers, and Brendan Blowers

As missionaries in Papua New Guinea for 38 years, Bruce and Ruth Blowers—for lack of a nearby Hallmark store—often inked their children’s footprints on 3 x 5 cards and sent them to family members and supporters in the United States. This practice inspired them to ink the kids’ footprints on the back of the bathroom door in their primitive, wood-framed house. When the authors returned to Papua New Guinea for the Church of the Nazarene’s 50th anniversary celebration, they were delighted to find the same footprints on the old bathroom door. Those footprints became a meaningful symbol of their journey in Papua New Guinea. The book is divided into three parts, each written from the perspective of one of the Blowers men.

Nothing Stands in Our Way**
by Brian Utter

Brian Utter shares stories from around the world about how the efforts of Nazarene World Mission Broadcast help bring people to Jesus. Readers will visit a prison in South America where a radio signal from a city much farther away miraculously reaches its inmates. They’ll learn about Daniel who is the radio director for Papua New Guinea and Romain in Peru whose media ministry was brought about through the Church of the Nazarene. Ayman was a pop star in Lebanon who, after becoming a Christian, now uses his voice on a WM Broadcast program called Journey of Hope. Other featured countries include Ecuador, India, Tonga, and the Philippines.

Traffic**
by Bruce Nuffer and Darrell McLearn

Traffic is a very graphic, heart-wrenching story of a Central American girl who is sold into the human trafficking business by her uncle. It is based on real circumstances, though the girl herself is fictional. Readers follow her painful journey from Central America into the United States where the horrors of human trafficking in this nation are revealed. Interwoven into this story is the presence of Darrell McLearn, a Nazarene pastor and anti-trafficking project manager for Concerned Women for America in Texas. As his eyes are opened to this modern-day slave trade, he finds himself desperately seeking a way to rescue the innocent victims.

African Dreams
by Pat Stockett Johnston

African Dreams chronicles the tremendous growth taking place in the Horn of Africa. The author includes the stories of missionary Howie Shute and Ermias Choliye, the first national district superintendent for the Horn of Africa. God used dreams to reveal to both men His purpose for their lives in Africa. Their dreams also wove together to produce the Horn of Africa church-multiplication explosion. Pat Stockett Johnston touches on the persecution that has shadowed the work in Horn of Africa and outlines the particular church-multiplication strategies believers use.

Paul Orjala
by Franklin Cook

Paul Orjala was a versatile, multi-talented man. He radiated energy and took steps three at a time. Paul utilized his talents to multiply churches and reach those who were deemed unreachable. He trained thousands of leaders, from students in Nazarene schools to the locals on the mission field. Paul Orjala is built on the life and philosophy of this remarkable man. With his inquisitive mind and energetic spirit, Paul studied, wrote, and lectured in a way that gave form and substance to a mission philosophy that shaped the mission field for the entire Nazarene denomination.

Vistas
compiled by R. Franklin Cook

For the Church of the Nazarene, creating a climate for the Holiness message is our primary purpose. It is in that climate and against the landscape of shattering global events that we work. It is here and now that disciples are made, nurtured, and incorporated into the indigenous Body of Christ. Vistas is the attempt by several writers to give a taste of what’s happening on the mission field. Written in their own words and based on their own experiences, their reflections are designed to bring the philosophy of missions up to the moment and into the future. Here they offer you an understanding—a vista—of the landscape of missions.

Children’s NMI Mission Books

All-Reader Books (grades 1 through 6)

Blind Sided
byTami Brumbaugh

Nine-year-old Mei wondered why her eyes hurt and her vision was blurry. After a near bicycle accident, a doctor’s visit revealed an unexpected diagnosis of glaucoma. Mei received a laser treatment at Heart to Heart’s visiting Mobile Eye Clinic, but another surgery was needed to prevent Mei from going blind. A surprise trip to the United States not only brought healing to Mei’s eyes, but to her heart as well.

A Crocodile, a Cloth, and a Clean Water Well
by Elaine Cunningham

Eleven-year old Ayana and her mother lived in a small African village that had no well. Every day Ayana walked the dangerous path to the river and filled their bucket with contaminated water. One day she met Pastor Girma and his family. They not only helped to provide a clean water well in her village to satisfy physical thirst, but through a Bible Story Cloth introduced the villagers to Jesus, who satisfied their spiritual thirst.

The Night of the Storm
by Judi Wiegman

When a tornado struck the small town of Cactus, the lives of ten-year-old Mario and his family were forever changed. In the midst of confusion, they experienced the love of Jesus shown to them by Nazarenes from other parts of the Texas Panhandle. Nazarene churches not only sent Crisis Care Kits and other necessities to help the people recover, they made plans to start a Nazarene church in Cactus.

Advanced Reader Books (grades 4 through 6)

The Case of the Camp Cat Burglar
by Wes Eby

Chuck Jenkins, an 11-year-old boy nicknamed “Sherlock,” went with his dad on a Work and Witness trip to Dominica. Soon after arriving, the team learned that their supplies had been stolen from the campground where they were to build a cabin. Since Chuck loved solving mysteries, he was given the job of nabbing the cat burglar. Looking for clues was only part of Chuck’s mission adventure. His detective work and witness made a difference in the lives of those on the island.

Project Proclaimer
by Cheryl Crouch

Keenan Brown was not your typical 11-year-old boy. His six-foot height and unruly curly red hair made him shy away from everyone, including his rival, Bully Bo. Keenan only dreamed of making a difference in the world through his alter ego--Agent Awesome--until one Sunday, he learned about Project Proclaimer. With the help of his best friend and sidekick, Serna, he faced his fears and raised enough money to buy several Proclaimers, inspiring many other children to do the same.

Spiders, Frogs, and Bears
by Lynda Boardman

Eleven-year-old Lilly traveled with her dad on a work and education mission trip to Belize in November 2008. Her first night’s sleep was interrupted by a buggy-eyed, hopping creature, one of many unfamiliar sights and sounds she experienced. Lilly became totally involved in the lifestyle of Belizean children. She returned home with a new awareness of her role in sharing the light of Jesus around the world.