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Serving God in a Migrant Crisis: Ministry to People on the Move<\/a>, by Patrick Johnstone with Dean Merrill. GMI Books, 2016. 121 pages.<\/p>\n \u201cOur world is full of war, poverty, terrorism, corruption, failed states, and ecological disasters, all of which uproot people and send them searching for a better life,\u201d write Johnstone and Merrill. \u201cI have news for you. It\u2019s going to get worse before it gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n This brief but informative and compelling book puts today\u2019s migrant crisis in perspective, describing its causes, effects, complexities, and implications for the global church. Each chapter concludes with thoughtful questions for readers to ask themselves. Several chapters explore what individuals, local churches, Christian agencies, and the global body of Christ can do.<\/p>\n Both readable and well-documented, this book also surveys relevant biblical passages and principles. It does a good job steering clear of preaching or self-righteousness. It also points to helpful resources. Though more could be said about any of the topics covered, sometimes brevity is best. This book feels balanced and up to date. It might make a good study for your small group.<\/p>\n Note that this is second in a series of books by Johnstone and Merrill on challenges facing the global church. The first is Serving God in Today\u2019s Cities: Facing the Challenge of Urbanization<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Learn more or buy the book from Amazon<\/a> (or elsewhere); US$9.99 for the Kindle edition, US$14.99 for the paperback.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also two other recent publication from GMI Books designed to inform decisions and communication efforts: Our Anchor in a World Adrift: 7 Stats You Need to Know to Serve the King<\/a> and Missiographics 2.0: Visualizing the Great Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: GMI Books Serving God in a Migrant Crisis: Ministry to People on the Move, by Patrick Johnstone with Dean Merrill. GMI Books, 2016. 121 pages. \u201cOur world is full of war, poverty, terrorism, corruption, failed states, and ecological disasters, all of which uproot people and send them searching for a better life,\u201d write Johnstone … Continue reading BOOKS: Serving God in a Migrant Crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}