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Gideon’s People is an impressive achievement by the authors who took over a decade to translate and edit the diaries left behind by the German Moravian missionaries serving an American Indian community at Pachgatgoch in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut.

The author structures the book around the stories of ten individuals, mostly unconnected to each other. The common thread is the author’s connection to each.

Invitation to World Missions contains a strong biblical approach with practical suggestions.

This book is a good contribution to the emerging literature on work in slum communities but without a specific focus on missional notions.

The Meeting of the Waters is not your usual “mission textbook,” but it is the kind of trends analysis that is indispensable for anticipating future church and mission.