🌍 Missions

The Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours of George Müller (of Bristol)

George Müller

≈ 7 h 38 min read · 3 chapters

Missionary problem

Andrew Murray

A Retrospect

J. Hudson Taylor

James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, tells how God led him from conversion and early lessons of faith and prayer in England to missionary work in China and the founding of the Mission.

≈ 3 h 25 min read · 20 chapters · 105 pages

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Ernest B. Gordon

The life of the Boston pastor A. J. Gordon (1836–1895) — preacher, hymn-writer, missions leader and founder of the Boston Missionary Training School — written by his son, with letters and extracts from his sermons. (This is not a biography of the missionary Adoniram Judson.)

≈ 10 h 21 min read · 27 chapters · 402 pages

Mary Slessor of Calabar

W. P. Livingstone

The life of Mary Slessor (1848–1915), the Dundee mill girl who became a pioneer missionary in Calabar, Nigeria — her work among the Okoyong and Ibibio peoples, her care for twins and outcasts, and her faith.

≈ 11 h 10 min read · 98 chapters · 231 pages

The Life of David Livingstone

Mrs. J. H. Worcester, Jr.

A short life of David Livingstone written for the Missionary Annals series: his boyhood in Blantyre, missionary work in South Africa, great journeys across the continent and struggle against the slave trade.

≈ 2 h 23 min read · 17 chapters · 112 pages · 1888

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

David Livingstone

David Livingstone's own account of sixteen years in South and Central Africa — his mission at Kolobeng, the journeys to Lake Ngami, Loanda on the Atlantic and down the Zambezi to the Indian Ocean, and his observations of the peoples and the slave trade.

≈ 25 h 40 min read · 37 chapters · 399 pages · 1857

Things as They Are

Amy Wilson-Carmichael

Amy Carmichael's first-hand account of missionary work among the women and children of Tamil Nadu in South India — the joys, the hard realities and the call to prayer that moved a generation of readers.

≈ 7 h 24 min read · 32 chapters · 264 pages · 1903

Livingstone, the Hero of Africa

R. B. Dawson

A life of David Livingstone written for young readers in 1918 — his Scottish boyhood, medical and missionary training, pioneering journeys across Africa and his fight against the slave trade.

≈ 4 h 41 min read · 20 chapters · 296 pages · 1918

The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard

Count de Montalembert

Volume II of Montalembert's history of Western monasticism, covering the monks of the sixth and seventh centuries — including St. Columba and the monastery of Iona and the missionary monks of the British Isles.

≈ 27 h 41 min read · 28 chapters · 790 pages · 1872

The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards's life of David Brainerd (1718–1747), missionary to the Native Americans of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, built largely from Brainerd's own diary and journal — with his letters, remains and Edwards's reflections.

≈ 17 h 13 min read · 16 chapters · 526 pages · 1818

Triumphant Love

J. (Hans) Kommers

An open-access academic study of Amy Carmichael's missionary work in South India — her background, the Keswick movement, the Dohnavur Fellowship and her contextual and strategic approach to mission.

≈ 30 h 48 min read · 22 chapters · 663 pages · 2017

Biography of James Hudson Taylor

Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor

The one-volume abridgement of Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor's standard biography of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission — from his Yorkshire boyhood to his death in China in 1905.

≈ 15 h 12 min read · 24 chapters · 596 pages · 1965

To the Golden Shore

Courtney Anderson

Courtney Anderson's full biography of Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), the American Baptist missionary to Burma — his call, imprisonment at Ava, Bible translation and the families who shared his work.

≈ 15 h 52 min read · 53 chapters · 556 pages · 1956

David Livingstone — Missionary Pioneer

Peter Hammond

The text of Peter Hammond's illustrated slide presentation on David Livingstone, missionary pioneer and opponent of the slave trade. The photographs and maps of the slides are not reproduced.

≈ 13 min read · 1 chapters · 139 pages

The Theology of the Christian Mission

Gerald H. Anderson (ed.)

The Theology of the Christian Mission (1961), edited and with an introduction by Gerald H. Anderson, foreword by Lesslie Newbigin — twenty-five essays by Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Oscar Cullmann, Hendrik Kraemer, Max Warren and others on the biblical basis, history and theory of the Christian mission, as a searchable UECF.NET web book with chapter navigation, bookmarks, notes and bibliography.

30 chapters · 341 pages · 1961

The Life of William Careyవిలియమ్ కేరీ జీవితముविलियम केरी का जीवन

George Smith

Read The Life of William Carey online at UECF.NET: George Smith's classic biography of the Northamptonshire shoemaker who became the father of modern missions, translated the Bible into dozens of Indian languages, and founded Serampore College.

≈ 10 h 46 min read · 16 chapters · 152 pages · 1885

The Apostle of the East and West — A Life of Sadhu Sundar Singh

James A. Kelso

Read about The Apostle of the East and West by James A. Kelso, a 1931 Christian biography of Sadhu Sundar Singh, at UECF.NET — with full bibliographic details, a section-by-section guide, and links to the complete public-domain scan.

≈ 20 min read · 13 chapters · 1931

Sadhu Sundar Singh: Called of Godసాధు సుందర్ సింగ్: దేవుని పిలుపుसाधु सुन्दर सिंह: परमेश्वर का बुलाया हुआ

Mrs. Arthur Parker

Read Sadhu Sundar Singh: Called of God online at UECF.NET: Mrs. Arthur Parker's 1920 biography of the Sikh-born Indian Christian evangelist and sadhu, from his conversion through his preaching journeys across India, Tibet, Ceylon, Burma, China and Japan.

≈ 3 h 54 min read · 30 chapters · 1920

God's Smuggler

Brother Andrew

Read about God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew at UECF.NET: the true story of a Dutch believer who carried Bibles into Communist Europe and ministered to isolated Christians. A UECF.NET Christian Web Book.

230 pages · 1967

History of Christianity in India

M. M. Ninan

Explore the history of Christianity in India through this searchable UECF.NET Web Book.

≈ 7 h 15 min read · 20 chapters · 401 pages · 2012

Lutheran Missionaries, Landmarks and Legaciesలూథరన్ మిషనరీలు, ల్యాండ్‌మార్క్‌లు మరియు లెగసీలు (2014)

Syam S. Pilli

Lutheran Missionaries, Landmarks and Legacies by Syam S. Pilli — the story of the American Lutheran Mission from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Guntur, Andhra Pradesh (1842 onward): Father J. C. F. Heyer, Walter Gunn, L. B. Wolf, John Roy Strock, Anna Kugler and John Aberly, and the landmarks they left — Andhra Christian College, Heyer Hall, Gunn Bungalow, Wolf Hall, Strock Hall, Sylvanus Stall Girls High School, St. Matthew’s West Parish Church, Kugler Hospital and Aberly Pet. A free, searchable UECF.NET web book.

13 chapters · 15 pages · 2014

Christianity in Andhra & Rayalaseema Regions

A searchable UECF.NET Christian web-book edition of the complete 53-page source PDF chapter on the historical growth of Christianity in Andhra Pradesh and the Rayalaseema region, including political context, Catholic and Protestant missions, denominational development, and references.

≈ 1 h read · 25 chapters · 53 pages

The Telugu Mission (1914, Telugu)తెలుగు మిషన్ (1914)

Drach & Kuder

శోధించదగిన వచనం, డార్క్ మోడ్ మరియు ఆఫ్‌లైన్ మద్దతుతో ఎవాంజెలికల్ లూథరన్ చర్చి యొక్క తెలుగు మిషన్ యొక్క పూర్తి 1914 చరిత్ర, రెవ. C. F. హేయర్, గుంటూరు మరియు రాజమండ్రి మిషన్‌ల జీవిత చరిత్రను చదవండి.

32 chapters · 470 pages · 1914