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2021-2017 Education for Mission
Selections can be from the 2016-20201 Reading lists if not included in previous reports, children and
youth titles may be read for credit in all plans of the Reading Program.
2021 Education for Mission
Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown. Jeffrey L Staley. Self-Published. 2018.
In 1898, three-year-old Chinese-American girl Mei Chun Lai is sold to a cruel brothel keeper, where a
sympathetic prostitute befriends her. Two years later, at the height of a plague quarantine, a young
Methodist woman rescues Chun and places her in a home for abused and trafficked girls. The home is
destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Chun (aka “Maud”) and a group of seven other Chinese
children embark on a cross-country singing tour to raise funds to rebuild. When their home matron
suffers a breakdown, 13-year-old Maud must lead the band of children home. Based on a true story.
2021 Education for Mission
Leading While Muslim: The Experiences of American Muslim Principals after 9/11. Debbie
Almontaser. Rowman & Littlefield. 2018.
This book examines the lived experiences of American Muslim principals who serve in public schools in a
post-9/11 world to determine whether global events, political discourse, and the media coverage of Islam
and Muslims have affected their leadership and spirituality. Such a study is intended to help readers to gain
an understanding of the adversities that American Muslim principals have experienced post-9/11 and how to
address these adversities, particularly through decisions about educational policy and district leadership.
2021 Education for Mission
My Savior is the Masses: Dancing Along the Path to Justice. Joy Prim. Self-Published 2019.
Follow the story of Global Ministries mission intern Joy Prim. Joy first served in Hong Kong, working with
an NGO serving migrant women domestic helpers from around Southeast Asia, and then in California,
serving with an NGO friend from her international placement. After finishing her official missionary
assignment, she stayed
on, working with the community to continue their collective organizing. Join her through her blog, which
she initially began as a way to document her experiences as a missionary and has continued as she’s
followed Jesus to the community margins.
2021 Education for Mission
A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing Up in Ethiopia and America. Caroline Kurtz. Catalyst
Press. 2019.
Growing up in the remote mountains of 1950s Ethiopia, Caroline enjoyed American missionary family life.
Outside, her world was shaped by drums and the joy cry; treks into the countryside; ostriches on the airstrip;
and the crackle of several languages she barely understood but longed to learn. She felt exiled to a foreign
country when she went to Illinois for college and later returned to Ethiopia to teach. But rather than
returning to her childhood home, maybe it would have been better just to treasure her memories.
Public Library – 1 print copy
2021 Education for Mission
The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan. Joan Dicicco. Illustrated by Ebony Glenn. Lee & Low Books. 2019.
“If a man puts something to block your way, the first time you go around it, the second time you go over it, and
the third time you go through it.” Living by these words made inventor and entrepreneur
Garrett Morgan unstoppable. Growing up in Kentucky, the son of freed slaves, young and curious Garrett was
eager for life beyond his family’s farm. This compelling picture book tells the story of his ingenuity
and tenacity that overcame racial barriers as he forged a career as a successful businessman and inventor.
Suitable for youth. Public Library – 31 print copies
12020 Education for Mission
When Others Shuddered: Eight Women Who Refused to Give up. Jamie Janosz. Moody Publishers.
p208.
Fanny Crosby, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nettie McCormick, Sarah Dunn Clarke, Emma Dryer, Virginia
Asher, Evangeline Booth, and Amanda Berry Smith—were unique. They were single and married,
black and white, wealthy and poor, beautiful and plain, mothers and childless. Yet, each felt called to
make a difference and to do something—to meet a pressing need in her world.
These women wanted to live lives less ordinary. Their stories inspire us to follow God’s calling in our
own lives. They teach us that each individual person can make a difference. These eight women will
show you how God can use your life to change the world. Public Library – 2 print copy
2020 Education for Mission
The Pilgrim Journey: A History of Pilgrimage in the Weslern World. James Harpur. BlueBridge.
p209.
The fascinating story of sacred travel in the West: how pilgrimage was born and grew in antiquity,
how it blossomed in the Middle Ages and faltered in subsequent centuries, only to reemerge stronger
than before in modern times. It describes the pilgrim routes and sacred destinations past and present,
the men and women making the journey, the many challenges of travel, and the spiritual motivations
and rewards. And it explores the traditional stages of pilgrimage, from preparation, departure, and the
time on the road, to the arrival at the shrine and the return home.
2020 Education for Mission – Bonus Book [two books in Education for Mission]
What About Our Money? A Faith Response. Susan Taylor. United Methodist Women. 2018.
How do we relate to money within the context of our faith? What is the biblical foundation of
abundance (sufficiency); which stands in opposition to the scarcity narrative our culture tells us from
the time we are very young? Through exploring this connection, readers discover how to live closer to
God and God’s people, even in our capitalistic North American culture.
2019 Education for Mission
The Devil Came Down to Chinatown – Ordinary Church Women and their Extraordinary
Rescue of San Francisco’s Brothel Slaves. Christine Taylor. CreateSpace Independent
Publishing. p220.
In the late 1800s thousands of Chinese women sailed to America’s West Coast. Many of them were
enslaved as soon as they stepped off the freighters and were forced into prostitution -- the "green
mansion." American prejudice against the immigrant Chinese was ugly and strong, and many of
these girls lost hope. Many of them died. But a few of them began to whisper about the “Jesus
women.” The Jesus women were rescuing and freeing the Chinese slaves, and if the girls could just
get word to them.
2019 Education for Mission
An Insider’s Guide to Praying For the World. Brian C. Stiller. Baker Publishing Group. 2016. +
Book includes country-specific insights calling us to a deeper understanding of the Christian
church and witness. Each chapter also provides prayer challenges that come from believers in the
country as well as maps and sample prayers. Nations from every continent are included.
Wayne County Public - I print copy
22019 Education for Mission
Threading My Prayer Rug – One Woman’s Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American
Muslim. Sabeeha Rehman. Skyhorse Publishing. 2017. +
Named on Booklist's Top Ten Religion and Spirituality Books of 2016, Threading My Prayer Rug is
a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America. Wayne County Public – 8 print
copies
2019 Education for Mission
The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships. Jake McGlothin. Abingdon
Press. 2017. +
This title offers practical steps congregations can take to make a difference with the children in
their community. Wayne County Public – 1 print copy
2019 Education for Mission
One – Unity in a Divided World. Deidra Riggs. Baker Publishing Group, 2017. +
Our world needs fewer walls and more bridges. Be a bridge builder. One brings hope and healing
to a divided and broken people and to those seeking to understand the first and next steps toward
racial unity.
2019 Education for Mission – Youth [credit for all reading plans]
Ahimsa. Supriya Kelkar. Lee and Low/Tu Books. 2017.
In 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom
movement, ten-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom
struggle. But it turns out he isn't the one joining. Anjali's mother is. Wayne County Public – 22
print copies
2019 Education for Mission - Recommended Reading
Make a Difference – Following Your Passion and Finding Your Place to Serve. James A..
Abingdon Press. 2017. +
Connect Your Passion with the World’s Great Need. Every day we see that things are not right in
our world, and as followers of Jesus Christ, we have an impulse to do something about it. We long
to connect our passions and gifts with the world's great needs, making a unique contribution for
the healing of the world.
2019 Education for Mission – Recommended Reading
Unified We Are a Force – how Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities. Joerg
Rieger and Resemarie Henkel-Rieger. Chalice Press. 2016. +
This book is an invitation for us to listen, with God, to the cries of those who labor.
Wayne County Public – 1 print copy
2018 Education for Mission
First White Frost. Homer Noley.
The history of the Methodist attempt to evangelize Native Americans is riddled with spectacular
failures as well as dramatic successes. In this balanced yet forthright account, Homer Noley helps
you gain new insights and a richer understanding of Methodist missionary activities with Native
Americans from the 1600s to today.
32018 Education for Mission
Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus. Rifqua Bary.
“After four years of hiding my faith from my family, I knew that it was time. I wrote with shaky
hands, ‘Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I refuse to deny him….’ There was no turning back now.
I had to get out of that house if I wanted to live. Was this worth risking everything for? Yes.”
Wayne County Public – 19 print, 2 Overdrive listen
2018 Education for Mission
A House in the Sky: A Memoir. Amanda Lindhoul.
Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she
experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most
desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark.
Wayne County public – 4 large print. 39 print. 4 Audiobook CD. 1 ebook [Adobe EPub, HTML].
2018 Education for Mission - Bonus Book [counts as two Education for Mission titles]
Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists were Involved in an American Tragedy. Cary L.
Roberts.
Sand Creek. At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave
the command that led to slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos-primarily women,
children, and elderly-camped under the protection of the U. S. government along Sand Creek in
Colorado Territory and flying both an American flag and a white flag. The governor whose polices
led the Cheyennes and Arapahos to Sand Creek was a prominent Methodist layman. Colonel
Chivington was a Methodist minister. Perhaps those were merely coincidences, but the question
also remains of how the Methodist Episcopal Church itself responded to the massacre. Was it also
somehow culpable in what happened? Wayne County Public – 4 print copies
2018 Education for Mission
Without you, There is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite. Suki Kim
A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six
months of Kim Jong-il's reign. Wayne County Public - 26 print. 7 ebook [Adobe EPub, HTML,
Kindle], 2 Overdrive Listen.
2018 Education for Mission – Recommended Reading List
Unspoken Farewell. Jonna-Lynn K. Mandelbaum.
Amanda Bechtel's story is the fictionalized account of the true-life experiences of a United
Methodist missionary nurse to Mozambique.
2018 Education for Mission
Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony. Richard Sobol.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, J. J. Keki, a Ugandan musician and coffee farmer, was in
New York, about to visit the World Trade Center. Instead, J.J. witnessed the terrorist attack on the
Twin Towers. He came away from this event with strong emotions about religious conflict. Why
should people be enemies because of their religions? Here is a rare and timely story of hope,
economic cooperation, and religious harmony from an often struggling part of the world.
Wayne County Public – 2 print
42017 Education for Mission
Boundless What Global Expressions of Faith Teach Us About Following Jesus. Bryan Bishop. Baker
Books (2015) 239 pages
Through colorful firsthand accounts, the author explores how fresh expressions of faith from
American youth, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Native Americans who are experiencing and
following Jesus outside the boundaries of traditional Western Christianity can revitalize our own
faith journeys. Wayne County Public – 1 print.
2017 Education for Mission – Bonus Book
Faith Ed. Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance. Linda K. Wertheimer
(Bonus Book 2 books in Educ. For Mission) Beacon Press (2016) 224 pages
From Texas to Tampa, Florida; Wichita, Kansas to California; there is controversy around teaching
religion in public schools. This fascinating investigation into the debate and how to best teach children
religious literacy and tolerance reveals a public education system struggling to find the right path
forward while offering a promising roadmap for raising a generation of religiously literate Americans
Wayne County Public – 1 ebook [Adobe EPub, HTML, Kindle]. 4 print.
2017 Education for Mission
Liberating Black Church History: Making it Plain. Juan Floyd-Thomas
Abingdon Press (2014) 163 pages
This book bears witness to the transformation of black faith and culture from enslavement and
emancipation, through segregation, civil rights, Black Power, and to the age of Barack Obama.
Liberating Black Church History is an indispensable tool for understanding the African American
religious experience in a historical and cultural context. Wayne County Public – 1 print.
2017 Education for Mission
Love Casts Out Fear: A Jihad Survivor’s Journey from Revenge to Redemption. Brother Nathan and
David Culross. Baker Books (2015) 192 pages
As a boy in Egypt, Brother Nathan witnessed an unthinkable attack on his father, a Christian pastor in
a Muslim-majority country. Love Casts Out Fear tells a gripping, true story of danger, overwhelming
anger and forgiveness that is beyond comprehension. Through Nathan’s experiences in his beloved
homeland, you’ll see firsthand the joys and difficulties Christians face in the persecuted Middle
Eastern church. You will marvel at God’s ability to change hearts and care for those who follow the
call. Wayne County Public – 2 print.
2017 Education for Mission
Wherever the River Runs: How a Forgotten People Renewed My Hope in the Gospel
Kelly Minter. David C. Cook (2014). 253 pages.
Journey down a river teeming with piranhas, caimans, machete- wielding mothers, heroic pastors,
faith-fi lled children and miracles too seldom experienced in many parts of the world on this beautiful
adventure through the jungles of Brazil. Kelly Minter rediscovers Jesus among a forgotten people
living well beyond the corners of her previously defined faith—a people who draw her back, their
pain and their hope, again and again. Wayne County Public – 2 print. 1 Overdrive Listen.
52017 Education for Mission – Recommended Reading
A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses. S. Brent Plate
Beacon Press (2014)
A History of Religion in 5½ Objects takes a fresh and much-needed approach to the study of that
contentious yet vital area of human culture: religion. Arguing that religion must be understood in the
first instance as deriving from rudimentary human experiences, from lived, embodied practices, S.
Brent Plate asks us to put aside, for the moment, questions of belief and abstract ideas. Instead,
beginning with the desirous, incomplete human body, he asks us to focus on five ordinary objects—
stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread—with which we connect in our pursuit of religious
meaning and fulfillment. As Plate considers each of these objects, he explores how the world’s
religious traditions have put each of them to different uses throughout the millennia. Religion, it turns
out, has as much to do with our bodies as our beliefs. Maybe even more.
Wayne County Public – 3 print.
2017 Education for Mission - Youth – counts for all reading plans
Live to Give: Letting God Turn Your Talents into Miracles. Austin Gutwein
Thomas Nelson Publishing (2012) 199 pages
God gave each of us unique talents for a reason. When we off er the gifts we’ve been given, they are
transformed into something bigger than we could have ever imagined. Austin Gutwein started his own
journey with one simple gift: he liked to play basketball. He founded Hoops of Hope, which has grown
to 40,000 members and has raised nearly $3 million for AIDS relief in Africa. Discover your gifts and
see what God has planned for you. Wayne County Public – 1 print.
2017 Education for Mission – Children - counts for all reading plans
Journey with J.W. John Wesley’s Ride Through Methodist History. Daphna Flegal
Abingdon Press (2015) 88 pages
In Journey with J.W., elementary school-aged children will ride through Methodist history with John
Wesley and the early Methodists. Children will learn about our Methodist heritage and how it has
shaped us as people of faith, how God inspired John Wesley and other early leaders of our church, and
how God still calls us to tell the world about Jesus today.
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