The Mind of a Missionary includes a wonderful balance of teaching, scripture, and examples—the perfect pick-me-up for a tempted-to-grow-weary missionary!
The Mind of a Missionary by David Joannes is a future missions classic.
David’s story-telling in The Mind of a Missionary is a feast of verbal delights as he transports you into the minds and hearts of some of the most profound risk-takers for the sake of spreading the Gospel message!
David Joannes does story-telling as well as anyone in his genre. Prepare to become more educated, to have your pulse ratcheted up in spots, and you might have to grab a hanky, too.
The Mind of a Missionary is a landmark book that crashes into your heart and mind, leaving a marked path in its wake. You should not read this book unless you are willing to be confronted with the gospel and challenged in how you live out your faith.
I believe The Mind of a Missionary by David Joannes will help you find your place in the greatest movement in history.
In The Mind of a Missionary, Joannes brings a helpful, new perspective on timeless lessons from missionary legends. You’ll be inspired and encouraged.
David is a masterful storyteller and a practical guide, and The Mind of a Missionary is a must-read for anyone who wants to last long and finish strong in their missional calling.
If you want to stir up more passion for the Great Commission and unreached people, and seeing the glory of God proclaimed to the ends of the earth, get this book!
Anything written by David Joannes is a worthy read. In The Mind of a Missionary, he exposes the need for more missionary grit and plunges the depths of past missionary mindsets to pull out gems for this generation to learn from.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Recognize your unique role in God’s Kingdom narrative.
In the 2nd edition of The Mind of a Missionary, author David Joannes draws upon history, psychology, life experience, and powerful storytelling to reshape your perception of God’s global work.
Twelve missionary guides (and dozens more modern-day global Kingdom workers) show you how to grow your missionary mindset and leave a Gospel mark on the world. These guides are ★ Jim & Elisabeth Elliot, ★ C. T. Studd, ★ Nikolaus Zinzendorf, ★ Robert Moffat, ★ Jackie Pullinger, ★ David Eubank, ★ Nik & Ruth Ripken, ★ William Carey, ★ Hudson Taylor, ★ Amy Carmichael, ★ Don Richardson, and ★ Heidi Baker.
Nik Ripken, author of the wildly popular The Insanity of God, calls this book “a future missions classic.”
Discover how to navigate the motivations, expectations, sacrifices, and rewards of missional living.
God thinks highly of you, esteems your uniqueness, and values your individuality. Whether He uses you at home or abroad, The Mind of a Missionary gives you the keys to thriving in your heavenly calling as you join God’s redemptive mission.
You will learn how to:
- Cultivate authentic mission motivations
- Establish healthy ministry expectations
- Embrace a mindset of sacrificial living
- Obtain the heavenly rewards offered to you
These pages give you a shot of Jesus’ missionary ethos, helping you overcome challenging obstacles, dare the impossible to advance God’s Kingdom, and maximize your role in the Great Commission.
This Spirit-infused, life-transforming journey begins when you click BUY NOW and download your copy of The Mind of a Missionary.
THE MIND OF A MISSIONARY DEVOTIONAL
The Mind of a Missionary Devotional: 31 Days of Daring Faith
Following the widely acclaimed The Mind of a Missionary—a guide to thriving on mission today—David Joannes returns with this companion devotional that chronicles the exploits of Christian pioneers like Amy Carmichael, Hudson Taylor, Jim Elliot, and many more history-shaping Kingdom workers. These gripping four-minute entries complement your daily quiet time, emboldening your faith with stories of adventure, tragedy, and hope.
These 31 inspirational accounts will ignite you to pursue God’s calling wherever it may lead. The Mind of a Missionary Devotional reveals how God uses seemingly ordinary people to achieve the extraordinary for His glory. You’ll close this devotional challenged and encouraged by the daring faith of Christian heroes.
If you really want to thrive on mission, you must allow God to redefine your definition of the normal Christian life.
David Joannes, The Mind of a Missionary
ENDORSEMENTS & REVIEWS
David Joannes shapes this book through various lives who have followed Jesus from the streets of their birth to the ends of the globe. The Mind of a Missionary is filled with the truth and grace of the Great Commission command. Here, crucifixion and resurrection meet in the lives of real people and families who have determined to carry their cross to faraway places. Joannes reminds us that the rolled-away stone—the power of the resurrection—can become all peoples’ eternal possession and reality.
In The Mind of a Missionary, David Joannes takes us on a virtual adventure spanning centuries and continents with his latest book. His story-telling is a feast of verbal delights as he transports you into the minds and hearts of some of the most profound risk-takers for the sake of spreading the Gospel message!
The Mind of a Missionary is a timely reminder that if we don’t learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat our mistakes. Joannes brings a helpful, new perspective on timeless lessons from missionary legends. You’ll be inspired and encouraged.
In the contemporary Church, there’s little difference between having a fleeting ‘burden for missions’ and starry-eyed wanderlust. The call for long-term missionaries willing to lay aside their lives for the cause of Christ found in past generations is mysteriously absent today. The missions enterprise is taking on the flavor of a microwave culture aimed at scratching our consumeristic itch. David Joannes exposes the need for more missionary grit; he plunges the depths of past missionary mindsets to pull out gems for this generation to learn from. Anything written by David Joannes is a worthy read. I commend The Mind of a Missionary to anyone interested in cross-cultural ministry—or ministry in general.
The Mind of a Missionary is a compelling read. This book is a must for anyone who wants to last long and finish strong in their missional calling. As much as David is a masterful storyteller, he is also a practical guide. He lays out both the triumphant highs and challenging lows of life on the mission field, while always pointing to Jesus as the enabling Source and eternal Hope. Anyone who reads this book will surely be encouraged and better equipped to fulfill the Heavenly call on their life!
PASTOR HOW & PASTOR LIA Senior Pastors of Heart of God Church Singapore, www.hogc.sg
With a combination of heroic stories, lessons from history, and modern developments in neurobiology, The Mind of a Missionary will change the way you think and live. The storytelling is intimate and compelling, and the insights so profound that I found myself longing to just sit with it—one phrase, one story, one convicting thought at a time. This is book will come crashing into your heart and mind, leaving a marked path in its wake. Let me suggest that you should not read this book unless you are willing to be confronted with the gospel and challenged in how you live out your faith in the context of the lost people around you and the unreached peoples around the world. The Mind of a Missionary is truly a landmark book. By God’s grace, this book will have far-reaching implications. It will prepare and equip a new generation to enter the field with courageous hearts and the right motives. And further still, it will provide, like streams in the desert, the encouragement needed to sustain those battle-weary ones who have already served long-term in fields far from home.
Only by a cross does the world truly change and the only way to the cross is by nonconformity.
David Joannes, The Mind of a Missionary
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God beckons believers to follow him into the darkness that his light might shine through them, illuminating the atmosphere with his glory.
David Joannes, The Mind of a Missionary
MEET THE AUTHOR
David is the Founder/CEO of Within Reach Global and the author of The Space Between Memories (2016), The Mind of a Missionary (2018, 2024), The Mind of a Missionary Devotional (2024), Gospel Privilege (2021), See the City (2023), and Glorious Hope (2023). He has been involved in cross-cultural missionary work for over 25 years. David graduated from the Teen Mania Ministries internship in 1996 and moved to China in 1997. In 2008, David and his wife founded Within Reach Global Inc., a non-profit Christian mission organization focused on reaching unreached people groups in the 10/40 Window. He now oversees a growing number of foreign and indigenous missionary staff at Within Reach Global, headquartered in Chiang Mai, Thailand. David is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and proficient in Tagalog and Thai. David lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his wife and two daughters.
