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Below are examples of our information publishing work. In addition to online publishing, CD-ROMs, books and GIS publishing, we compile and publish custom information collections to meet your needs. Click on any of the tabs below to show or hide sets of projects.
To purchase any of these CD-ROMS, or just to learn more information about the product, click on the project name.
Operation World
We designed and created this CD-ROM containing the full text along with all tables, graphs and maps from Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk's Operation World book, with profiles of each country.
The World of Islam
We led this project to compile, create and publish this CD-ROM containing over 12,000 pages of key books, articles, curricula, maps and images on Islam and Christian witness within the Muslim context, edited by Dudley Woodberry.
Operation China
We designed and created this CD-ROM containing the full text, maps and photographs of Paul Hattaways' book of 490 profiles of the people groups of China.
Peoples of the Buddhist World
We designed and created this CD-ROM containing the full text, maps and photographs of Paul Hattaways' book of 238 profiles of the Buddhist people groups of the world.
FlightPlan
We led the research, and compiled, formatted, and published the extensive results of the FlightPlan project documenting the status and exploring the future of international mission aviation ministries.
Wisdom of African Proverbs
We led the research project, and compiled and formatted the results of the African Proverbs Project: over 27,000 proverbs from dozens of African languages, 23 complete books of proverbs, an annotated bibliography of 800 proverb collections and 279 research articles on African proverbs
We publish and/or distribute a few select books focused on missiology and applied mission research. The books below were written by our staff missiologist Dr. Stan Nussbaum. Click on any book name below to purchase or learn more about it.
Breakthrough!
We published this on-field, on-the-job training manual combining prayer and applied research designed to lead to ministry breakthrough.
A Reader's Guide to Transforming Mission
We distribute this concise, accessible companion to David Bosch's classic book, Transforming Mission.
American Cultural Baggage
We distribute this book that sketches the American cultural pattern through 235 common sayings, clustered around cultural values and issue
In partnership with others, we develop and maintain mission research websites providing valuable mission information and links:
Operation World
We designed, developed and maintain the Operation World website, providing a country profile, prayer points, and church and missions information for every country in the world, by Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk.
Mission InfoBank
We designed and lead the development and maintenance of this collaborative website providing high-quality missions-related information: interactive databases and geographic mapping, along with a vast library of maps, graphs, reports, images, audio and video files.
MisLinks
We host and co-develop this web-based missions directory, in partnership with Dr. Scott Moreau of Wheaton College Graduate School.
We publish, distribute and support major geographic software and global data collections to support missions mapping professionials around the world. Click on the product names below to purchase or learn more about them.
Global Ministry Mapping System
We develop, maintain, support and train users in the Global Ministry Mapping System. The GMMS combines the world's leading desktop Geographic Information System (GIS), ArcGIS for Desktop from Esri, with a vast collection of geographic data and statistical data we develop and maintain, software extensions we develop to facilitate missions mapping, and sample maps carefully desiged and developed to help Christian ministries plan, coordinate, and evaluate mission work.
Seamless Digital Chart of the World
We format, maintain, and publish this globally seamless adaptation of the Digital Chart of the World in Esri shapefile format to ensure missions mapping professionals around the world have the highest quality geo-physical and geo-political base maps to work with.
Populated Places Database
We develop, maintain and publish this global database of 2.3 million cities, towns and villages to enhance global missions mapping.
World Language Mapping System
In partnership with SIL, we develop, maintain and publish the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and trusted geographic mapping of the locations of the world's nearly 7,000 ethno-linguistic peoples.
South Asia Peoples, Languages and Religions
We publish this comprehensive database of the peoples, languages, religions, tribes, and castes of South Asia, with population statistics by district.
