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 R. 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.
