MISSION RESOURCE DIRECTORY

A "Directory of Directories" or a "Central Directory" (a place to start your search)





MAJOR DIRECTORIES ON THE INTERNET
   grouped by:


Subject (like "yellow pages")
Names (like "white pages")
Language
Peoples
Geographic/political identity
Type of ministry
Events





OTHER DIRECTORIES AND RESOURCES
General collections of mission resources
Aids for Researchers
Encyclopedias on-line
Resources for Promoting Mission in the
local church
Medical
Periodicals
Restricted Access
Schools
Short Term Missions
Use of technology in Mission
Other resources

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"Distributed resources of the World-Wide-Web global electronic library."







General commercial
AllPages.com Yellow Pages
by state
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Agriculture
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Professional
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Shopping
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Travel & Tourism
   so U no Yellow-pages Lookup
    Yellow pages in Big Book
MISSION RESOURCES LISTED BY SUBJECT (like "Yellow Pages")
ACMC Missions resource directory
Great Commission Search Engine by SIM Int'l
Commercial resources for missions (SIM list)
SIL List includes linguistics, anthropology, translation, literacy, computing, news, books, maps, web resources, how to find email addresses, indexes, and search services.
Helping Overseas Directory.
MRD "Yellow pages" Directory of Mission Resources
The Missionary Resource Center; an online database of user-submitted missionary resources. Typical topics include cheap airfare, homeschooling, renewable energy, tracts, and more.
Mission Resources directory.
Oscar information service for world mission
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies database of links, documents, and other resources.
Global Mapping Mission research websites.
Personal directory service is available from Directory of Mission Information Sources
World Christian Resource Directory
Request a list of resources on any given subject in an Email to Kenneth W.
ORGANIZATIONS AND PROJECTS IN ORDER BY NAME (like "White Pages")
Church Locator network.
Frontier Fishery searchable database of 1700+ organizations.
List of members of the Gospel Communications Net
Helping Overseas Directory of missions and NGO's.
Internet For Christians links.
Jeff's list
Melissa Data list of non-profits by zipcode or by name.
MRD Alphabetical List of mission organizations.
Schools for Missionaries' Children
World Evangelical Alliance list
   INDIVIDUAL PERSONS
MRD list of look-up engines
Telephone Directories on the Web; links to many directories worldwide
Four11
SwitchBoard; over 100,000,000 phone listings
Netscape White Pages. Requires Netscape browser version 2.0 or higher.
Internet For Christians links.
DIRECTORIES BY LANGUAGE
Ethnologue. - Languages of the World - This 1272-page volume catalogs the world's 6,912 known living languages, including information on literacy, need for Bible tanslation, and much more. (Summer Institute of Linguistics.)
Atlas of the World's Languages - (Ask SIL)
Status of Global Evangelization Report by John Gilbert
Radio List - World By Radio
Language Recordings List - Hosanna
(Some languages are listed on the Mission Resource "Yellow Pages")
DIRECTORIES BY PEOPLES
Joshua Project 2000 List of Peoples (select "Joshua People")
People-group-related websites.
World Evangelization Database - David Barrett
Global Recordings List - Global Recordings Network (Gospel Recordings)
Jesus Film List - Campus Crusade for Christ
People-groups and statistics by ACMC.
Operation World religious statistics.
Operation World - Patrick Johnstone - on disk, available from Global Mapping Int'l.
AD 2000 Directory
Resource Directory for Unreached Peoples
DIRECTORIES BY GEOGRAPHIC/POLITICAL IDENTITY
Christian Network Links for Africa
Southern African Missiological Society
Look up places in Melissa Data LookUp.
ORGANIZATIONS, PROJECTS, NETWORKS BY TYPE OF MINISTRY
SIM directory of traditional, relief, research, support, and denominational organizations.
Search for missions by type of service by Global Mission.
Directory of Directories of Catholic Resources
Deaf Ministries
Yahoo directory


EVENTS
Events listed in Christian Missions page (by SIM Intl).
ICCM - Int'l. Conference on Computing and Missions on-going annual event.
MRD list of events.
Missions Fest Vancouver is a resource that takes place annually in Canada with a weekend total of over 30,000 people. It caters to all ages including children, youth and adults. It has free general admission and one can visit 250 mission organizations exhibits, choose from over a 120 seminars, as well as listen to the Plenary Speakers. It is the flagship of all other Missions Festivals in North America.
Urbana missions conference will be held in St. Louis Dec. 2006.


GENERAL COLLECTIONS OF MISSION RESOURCES
Comprehensive links to Mission Resources on the Web; prepared at Taylor Univ.
Cross cultural mission resources from GospelCom
GospelCom helps for mission agencies regarding using the Internet
ICLnet directory
MisLinks Web-based Missions Directory
Mission Finder list of resources. See also their additional links and misc.
Missions on the Web is an MS Word document containing seventy-six pages of annotated links to key missions resources, articles, ministries, statistics, training and opportunities to serve, as well as a number of powerpoint, streaming video, audio and mp3 files. Beyond training your Global Outreach Team with this tool, each year an increasing number of your church members will go to the Internet for information and inspiration--so, why let them find your church's web site void of the critical input they need to catch and grow a world vision? Just ask your webmaster to paste in selected portions from Missions on the Web and your church will have easy access to so much of what they need to catch, build and run with a world vision!
Missions Resources; practical and experiential tools for Christian Missions; Bibles; books, kids ministries; missions trip training etc.
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies database of links, documents, and other resources.
Pioneers links to many articles on
Mobilization (theology of missions)
Religions and Cultures
Specific Countries
Missions and the Sovereignty of God
Prayer
History and Biography
plus hundreds more listed in the Topical Index
SIM home page of mission information
Sources listed by EastSide Baptist Church
Various mission resources listed at Mission Station
World Christian Resource Directory
World Mission Directory Global Share System by World Evangelical Alliance. Search countries or regions of the world for organizations, courses, opportunities, events, and resumes.


AIDS FOR RESEARCHERS
Global Mapping list of mission research websites.
Global Mapping list of databases
SIM list of Missions that do Research and Support
MisLinks Research Page
Mission Frontiers links to research resources.
Operation China on CD from Global Mapping
Peoples File on CD from Global Mapping
Research Database on Operation World CD from Global Mapping
Research Links
SIM list of research and support organizations.
Research Sites listed by Jenny Collins (Taylor Univ.)
World Harvest Information Center
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES ON-LINE
Britannica
The Free Dictionary
; English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
Grolier
Guru Net
Miriam Webster Dictionary
The WebBible Encyclopedia.
  MEDICAL
Human Illnesses; detailed descrptions of serious disorders and recommended treatments.
MedScape by WebMD; finds medical articles.
Med Line; a service of Nat'l Inst. of Health
MEDICAL MISSIONS
Medical missions sites listed by William T. Close MD
William T. Close MD's experience working with the first EBOLA outbreak in Congo
Mission Finder list of service opportunities.
Mission Finder list of service opportunities for med students
Dental Training for Missions -- a 7 day course.
Peer View Press offers online continuing education programs for physicians, pharmacists and nurses. PVP provides online courses, accredited degree programs, professional continuing education, and learning resources in a number of medical specialties.
The Doctor's Guide Personal Edition(TM) is a complimentary web service designed to help physicians stay up-to-date. With over 200,000 members worldwide, Doctor's Guide is a comprehensive source for peer-reviewed literature, case studies, webcasts and medical news.
PERIODICALS
Mission Frontiers magazine; viewable on-line.
Mission Frontiers list of periodicals.
RESOURCES FOR PROMOTING MISSION IN THE LOCAL CHURCH
US Center for World Mission resources, including Perspectives course and Mission Frontiers magazine
SIM Intl. directory of mission sites, resources, events, biographies.
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Bible Visuals educational material in 70 languages.
RESTRICTED ACCESS
In Touch Mission, Int'l
Pioneers
SCHOOLS
Bethany College of Missions trains and sends servant leaders to disciple the world's least reached peoples.
Bethany Int'l and its international partners plan to start 100 new missionary training schools by 2012 to reach Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and secular Chinese for Christ. With over 125 missionaries worldwide, Bethany is passionate about forming environments that foster intimacy with Christ through prayer and worship, enabling missionaries to sustain effective lives of service.
Colleges and Universities that have a program in Missions or Inter-cultural Studies
Calgary Christian list of Colleges and Bible schools in Canada
SHORT TERM MISSIONS
Short Term Missions Search Engine; details of 1-week to 3-year opportunities offered by over 40 mission agencies.
Helping Overseas Directory short term mission references.
Short Term Missions Directory Hundreds of searchable and browsable listings.
Missions-trip.com; a growing searchable database of current mission opportunities.
Thirteen commandments for short term mission trips
Mission Resource Yellow Pages list
TECHNICAL HELP (See also TECHNICAL HELP on mryp.info)
Tech Support Guy: post your question; two dozen forums, 300,000 threads
USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN MISSIONS
CCBMinistries.com
International Christian Technologists' Association
ICCM: Int'l Conference on Computing in Missions
LightSys list
JAARS
Missionary Tech Support Need help with your computer questions or problems? We offer FREE tech support for all Evangelical Christian missionaries.
Missionary Tech Team; Phone: 903-757-4530
Free web sites for individual missionaries. ServantSite aims to provide a free dynamic web site solution for individual Christian missionary needs. Simple to setup and update your site (No HTML or FrontPage experience needed.) Smarty theme engine to allow customizable site themes. Make your ServantSite look like you! Display your latest news and prayer requests with complementing photos. Update your site as often as you like from any Internet connected computer. Accept donations for your projects online. Communicate with different groups on seperate password protected levels. Send group email notifications for new or updated news, prayer requests, and projects. Password protected site administration for secure and easy configuration.
Source Forge; development of open-source software which can be freely shared by all missions.
Technology Forecast
Sideros
GET I.T. TO THE FIELD -- Would you like a team of computer technicians to come to your next on-field missionary conference and fix missionaries' computers? Here's a group of mission technology support agencies that have discovered a good way to involve IT folk in short term mission trips and really bless the missionaries they serve, by fixing their computers. They are currently trying to identify conferences that they can help, especially those in Asia/Pacific and Central & South America. If you know of a suitable conference then please let them know about it, including the contact details of the organisers. Email David for Asia/Pacific and Shawn for the rest of the globe.

VARIOUS OTHER RESOURCES
7-1-1 Net; churches,colleges, agencies, publishers, retreats, music, events,more.
CrossDaily list of mission resource links
Crossway Christian Web Directory
Christian World Daily Christian Web Directory
CTS list of directories of Christian resources
DMoz directory regarding Christian missions
DMoz directory of religions
Encylopedia Britannica
HighBeam Electronic library resources
GospelCom list of helps for cross-cultural mission
GospelCom list of Christian directories
ICLnet directory of Christian resources
Medical and Dental Directories of computer-related jobs in Christian work: Christian Net
Mission Finder lists opportunities for educators, professional tentmakers, retirees, etc.
The Missionary Resource Center; an online database of user-submitted missionary resources. Typical topics include cheap airfare, homeschooling, renewable energy, tracts, and more.
My Christian Yellow Pages: Easily find Christian resources
Network for Strategic Missions among the unreached
News; Mission news sources listed by SIM
Scholarships; Mission Scholarship; a project of Oxord Centre of Mission Studies; a database of links, documents and other mission scholarship resources.
Support Christians First Directory lists general resources by subject.
Tracts; Send email request for free directory of sources of tracts to World Christian Tract Directory
Training Organizations and their Courses; directory by Missionary Training Service
US Center for World Mission
Various Christian Resources
World Evangelical Alliance


Donate food to hungry people just by clicking Hunger Site
Internet Services Guide by "Talking Phone Book"
Howard Culbertson's page; miss'y call, short terms, events,etc.
VOLUNTEERS
Global Economic Outreach registry of Christians with various professions, skills, talents and hobbies
WEB-SEARCHING FACILITIES
Ask Oscar re mission-related matters.
Great Commission Search Engine by SIM Int'l.
StartHere for many search-engines, directories, white and yellow pages, and more
MRD list of Web-Searchers

The Great Commission Search Engine

         (Type in a search-word and press Enter)



Free DONOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. HPG (Helping People Give) mission donor receipting/tracking software. DOS based but works well. Feeds receipt data to your accounting system. Requires DOS printer. Available for free download.


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HIM "Yellow Pages" directory of Mission Resources

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(If you have reached this page by curious browsing, you may wish to read Why Christians do Missions).

This page is offered as a central "meeting place" or "information lobby" where one can find pointers to the available mission resources.

(This is a work-in-progress)


USING TECHNOLOGY TO FACILITATE WORKING TOGETHER

Wycliffe Bible Translators offers a good example with their Enterprise Architecture: (from an article by Peter Wang.)
Their vision is "to see different parts of the worldwide church effectively linked together as partners, participating in meaningful ways in the Bible translation movement, and supported by up-to-date technologies to allow every person to effectively and efficiently carry out their strategic role".


One approach to determining one's approach to personal response to Jesus' Great Commission:
1 - Research the Christian status of countries around the world.
2 - Which country/people group do I feel called towards?
3 - What organisations work with that people group?
    -- Chris Baxter, Australia 7'03



Please email suggestions, corrections and additions to Roger W. Johnson
Roger's personal home page

Last updated Mar. 7, 2006