Publications
sold by ICS
Any
profits from sales go to further ICS's work. If you purchase, please
also consider making a donation towards our work. Thank you. To order
any of the following call ICS on 01926 - 430 347 (IDD code: +44 1926
- ) or order on line
Directory
of English-speaking Churches Abroad
The
portable way to find a church that speaks your language
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Assembled
by a team of volunteers, the pocket-sized Directory of English-speaking
Churches Abroad lists English-speaking Protestant churches
in over 80 countries where English is not the first language.
It is designed to help those who travel internationally for work,
on holiday, or to study, and for churches and Christian unions
to help their members find fellowship abroad.
Churches
from a wide variety of denominations and traditions are listed.
Entries include contact addresses, location and times of services.
Price UK £4.00 (inc. UK or international postage).
Vital
statistics: ISSN 1466-6855; size/weight - approximately 105
x 210 mm and around 150g (2001 edition); paperback; updated
at least annually. Any profits go to further ICS's work.
Current
edition April 2008
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A
Church in the Alps
(Cicely Williams)
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This book was first published in 1970 and now has updated photographs
and an Afterword. It tells the story of Zermatt, the Matterhorn
disaster, the building of the English Church, and its current
ministry. It is on sale at St. Peter's Zermatt if you are visiting,
or is available from ICS.
Publisher: ICS (2006); ISBN 0-9537435-0-0
Price £4.00 (post free).
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Faith
and New Frontiers (Brian
Underwood)
A
story of planting and nurturing churches, 1823 – 2003
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This
new history of ICS focuses particularly on ICS's church-planting
initiatives in the last ten years as well as drawing out important
lessons for future local and international mission through
church-planting. In an era when Christians-especially in western
Europe-seem to struggle to make the gospel of Jesus Christ
heard, Intercontinental Church Society's planting and re-planting
of international English-language churches in mainland Europe
deserves study. ICS is, too, an unusual mission agency: with
its help TUI Thomson was the only tour operator that featured
chaplains on its holidays for the over fifty-fives.
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This accessible,
contemporary missionary history examines a decade in the life of
this evangelical Anglican agency's long history, analyses the contemporary
cultural context, and describes a Society that is confident in the
Christ of the Scriptures, co-operative in attitude and which serves
people of every conceivable denomination and nationality in the
language of some 25% of the world's population. It demonstrates,
too, the contribution a voluntary agency can make when encouraged
by the Church to pursue its specialist calling. It is both relevant
and inspiring. The book covers
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The first 170 years of ICS's work especially in Canada, Australia
and Europe.
· The cultural and spiritual context of mission in Europe in
the closing years of the 20th century
· ICS's partnership with established chaplaincies in Europe
and the development of its seasonal ministry from 1992 to 2002
· A detailed survey of ICS's church-planting work from 1995
onwards
· An analysis of the Society's contribution to mission
· A look forward into the shape of Christian mission in the
21st century
Publisher:
ICS (2004); ISBN 0-9537435-2-7; stitched paperback with colour and
mono plates. Size 210 x 148mm; 288 pages plus 16 pages of colour plates.
Price £7.99 (postage extra).
Truth
to Tell
(Brian Underwood)
An engaging new book. It is a collection of sketches about the lives
and ventures of ordinary people who achieved quite extraordinary things
in taking the gospel message to English-speaking people all over the
world. Covering the period from 1823 to 2003, it the story too of
a movement which became Intercontinental Church Society - a mission
society whose unique role it is to present the gospel story in foreign
countries through the English language. The main story it tells, of
course, is of the story of Jesus. The title phrase was to be found
on Jesus' lips (John 5: 24) when he promised that those who heard
his word (the story of salvation) and believed in him would receive
eternal life. This is Brian's fourth book about ICS.
Publisher: ICS (2007) Available as a
74 page A4 manuscript or as a PDF on CD-rom: price £5.00 (post free).
Faith
without Frontiers (Brian Underwood)
Brian Underwood's second book tells the story of ICS's work from 1969
to 1993.
Publisher: (ICS, 1994); ISBN 0-946604-07-X
Price £2.99 (post free).
Nile
to the Netherlands
(Brian Lea)
The story of two missionaries, Brian and Gill Lea and their involvement
in English-language ministry (mainly with ICS). If you want to know
what being a chaplain of an international church involves, this an
excellent insight. Publisher: Thankful
Books (2006) ISBN 1-90584-06-4 Price £9.99 (postage extra)
