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'Missions' is a course awarded by International Certificate of Christian Education on VerifyEd. General Overview The student: -Is introduced to worldwide missions. -Gains an appreciation of what has helped shape the path of mission work. -Reads Peril by Choice by James Hefley, the story of John and Elaine Beekman, missionaries to Mexico and Guatemala. -Reads Peace Child by Don Richardson, the story of Don and Carol Richardson, missionaries to what is now Papua, Indonesia. -Reads Beyond the Next Mountain by Mawii Pudaite, the story of Rochunga Pudaite, native of India, who translated the Bible into the Hmar language. -Reads C. T. Studd by Norman Grubb, the story of C. T. Studd, missionary to China, India, and Africa. -Reads The Triumph of John and Betty Stam by Geraldine Taylor, the story of John and Betty Stam, missionaries to China. -Reads Give Up Your Small Ambitions by Michael Griffiths, a book that assumes that we have given up our “small ambitions” and are pressing toward the mark of the great ambition—the “high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” -Reads Flagellant on Horseback by Richard Ellsworth Day, the story of David Brainerd, missionary to United States Indians in early colonial days.

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