Title: Brazilian evangelical missions in the Arab world : history, culture, practice, and theology /
Authors: Smither, Edward L.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Missions Arab countries.; Missions, Brazilian Arab countries.; Protestant churches Brazil.
Abstract: "From a mission field to a missions sender." These words capture the story of the Brazilian evangelical church, which has gone from receiving missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to becoming a movement that presently sends out more global laborers than the churches of England or Canada do.
Contents: Introduction: why study Brazilian evangelical missions in the Arab world? -- From a mission field to a mission-sending base -- Brazilian workers in Arab culture, part 1 -- Brazilian workers in Arab culture, part 2 -- Brazilian approaches to mission -- Toward a Brazilian theology of mission -- Conclusion.