Author: Vaughn J. Walston
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 9780878086092
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Collection of articles about the history of missions from an African-American perspective.
African-American Experience in World Mission
Author: Vaughn J. Walston
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 9780878086092
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Collection of articles about the history of missions from an African-American perspective.
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 9780878086092
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Collection of articles about the history of missions from an African-American perspective.
The Christmas Angels' Mission
Author: Dana Hartung
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578530079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Share in this delightful Christmas tradition to highlight the true spirit of the Christmas season: giving back & being grateful. When God gives a new Christmas assignment, Gabe, a young angel, is charged with finding a family on earth to look after during the Christmas season. In the evenings, family members gather near the tree and tell Gabe what each is thankful for and a good deed each did that day. Every night, once the whole family is tucked into bed, Gabe and all the other Christmas angels fly to a special Cheer Meter and fill it with the kind acts and gratitudes of the day. Will the Cheer Meter be filled in time for Christmas? Read to find out! This heartwarming story is told in rhyme and is sure to get your family talking, realizing their everyday blessings and the importance of bestowing kind acts upon others.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578530079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Share in this delightful Christmas tradition to highlight the true spirit of the Christmas season: giving back & being grateful. When God gives a new Christmas assignment, Gabe, a young angel, is charged with finding a family on earth to look after during the Christmas season. In the evenings, family members gather near the tree and tell Gabe what each is thankful for and a good deed each did that day. Every night, once the whole family is tucked into bed, Gabe and all the other Christmas angels fly to a special Cheer Meter and fill it with the kind acts and gratitudes of the day. Will the Cheer Meter be filled in time for Christmas? Read to find out! This heartwarming story is told in rhyme and is sure to get your family talking, realizing their everyday blessings and the importance of bestowing kind acts upon others.
The Manger Mission
Author: Kristin Vazquez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578735337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Manger Mission: A Family Christmas Tradition is a story told through the eyes of playful, reminiscing Wise Men, now part of a family's nativity set, as they anticipate Christmas each year while reflecting on their first journey to meet Jesus. Each morning leading up to Christmas, the children in the family choose a place for the Wise Men as they journey through their home, every day moving them closer to the nativity where they can once again see baby Jesus. On Christmas morning, the children return the Wise Men to the nativity as part of their family's Christmas morning tradition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578735337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Manger Mission: A Family Christmas Tradition is a story told through the eyes of playful, reminiscing Wise Men, now part of a family's nativity set, as they anticipate Christmas each year while reflecting on their first journey to meet Jesus. Each morning leading up to Christmas, the children in the family choose a place for the Wise Men as they journey through their home, every day moving them closer to the nativity where they can once again see baby Jesus. On Christmas morning, the children return the Wise Men to the nativity as part of their family's Christmas morning tradition.
Missions
Author: Howard Benjamin Grose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
North Pole Ninjas: MISSION: Christmas!
Author: Tyler Knott Gregson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524790796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
East meets North in North Pole Ninjas, a yuletide call-to-arms to save the spirit of Christmas. You may not know that Santa has a team of special elves, selected for their ability to perform top-secret missions that are all about helping, giving, caring, and listening. Anyone who receives this book is called upon to help carry out those missions with a bit of stealth and an open heart. The gorgeously illustrated picture book retells the legend of the North Pole Ninjas for new recruits. Complete with 50 secret tasks for new recruits this holiday season, this is the perfect antidote to worrying about whether you've been naughty or nice.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524790796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
East meets North in North Pole Ninjas, a yuletide call-to-arms to save the spirit of Christmas. You may not know that Santa has a team of special elves, selected for their ability to perform top-secret missions that are all about helping, giving, caring, and listening. Anyone who receives this book is called upon to help carry out those missions with a bit of stealth and an open heart. The gorgeously illustrated picture book retells the legend of the North Pole Ninjas for new recruits. Complete with 50 secret tasks for new recruits this holiday season, this is the perfect antidote to worrying about whether you've been naughty or nice.
Christmas in America
Author: Penne L. Restad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
The Mission Field
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Biennial Convention of the United Lutheran Church in America
Author: United Lutheran Church in America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Includes minutes of the conventions of the General Synod, the General Council, and the United Synod.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Includes minutes of the conventions of the General Synod, the General Council, and the United Synod.
A History of the Presbyterian Church in America
Author: Richard Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
A history of the Presbyterian Church in America from its origin until the year 1760, with biographical sketches of its early ministers. By ... R. Webster ... With a memoir of the author by ... C. Van Rensselaer and an historical introduction by ... W. Blackwood
Author: Presbyterian Historical Society (PHILADELPHIA)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description