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Five Pioneer Missionaries, Banner of Truth Trust - Short sketches of the lives of Henry Martyn, John G. Paton, John Eliot, David Brainerd and William Chalmers Burns
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Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography, Iain Murray
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Editor - The classic biography of David Brainerd, early missionary to the Native Americans. This book has inspired and encouraged thousands of missionaries and Christian workers because of David's honest and intimate walk with God recorded in his diary. His diary at times reads like a devotional.
To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson, Courtney Anderson - A wonderful and insightful biography of the pioneer missionary to Burma and the first foreign missionary to be sent from America. In this biography Judson's entire character; his strengths, weakness, struggles, intense suffering and great triumphs are all explored.
Life and Letters of Henry Martyn, John Sargent - Biography about the short but very influential life of this missionary to India.
This is a list of books recommended by Bob Krepps, Spiritual Formation Division, New Mission Systems International, Fort Myers, FL