EPOCH (NAMB, 2007) is the newest resource from NAMB’s church planting group. EPOCH was designed to take people in the pew through the essential activities missionaries engage in to reach a community, start churches, and multiply the ministry through leadership development. EPOCH includes a participant’s guide, implementation guide, and extensive supplemental resources at www.churchplantingvillage.net/epoch. This is the perfect resource for turning would-be church planters into practitioners. For more information, contact visit www.churchplantingvillage.net/epoch.

Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes (IVP, 2008) is an illuminating and fascinating journey into the cultural and historical framework into which the Gospels were written and into the world into which Jesus Christ lived. Scholar Kenneth Bailey delves into numerous facets of Jesus’ world, including language, cultural relevance, and political and social culture of the Middle East. Instead of coming across as a dry study of current Middle Eastern thought, polity and culture, the book is a revealing and in-depth study which enlightens the reader to many thoughts and ideas often overlooked by contemporary Christians. Unlike most theological studies into culture and language, Bailey does not stop at providing the reader with Greek or Hebrew meanings of words. He also takes extra steps and demonstrates how the words were used or perceived in the culture. He tackles Christ’s life through birth to death, touching on major touchstones as the Beatitudes, lineage, and customs. For a full review visit www.onmission.com/resources.

The End of Reason (Zondervan, 2008) by Ravi Zacharias underscores the dependability of the Bible along with the author’s belief in the power and goodness of God. He confidently refutes claims that God is nothing more than a figment of one’s imagination and that Christians regularly practice intolerance and hatred around the globe.

www.OneMission.tv is a unique new video portal offering a blend of downloadable video sermon illustrations, countdown videos, motion backgrounds and videos to promote missions giving and involvment.

This combination of resources makes OneMission.tv a one-stop-shop for almost every church video need. Customers can easily search the OneMission.tv library by sermon topic, genre or keyword.

One of the most unique features at www.OneMission.tv is the availability of video stories highlighting missionaries and ministries all over the world. In partnership with the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board, and participating state conventions, OneMission.tv will distribute missions videos and other video resources free of charge to assist churches in communicating the Southern Baptist missions message to their congregations.

“We feel that OneMission.tv will truly be an Acts 1:8 resource for finding missions videos about your Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth,” says Doug Keesey, president of EyeOn Creative Media Group. “We want to assist the local church in communicating the gospel message through imaginative media and we want to do it with God-honoring excellence.”

Protect My Ministry Every year 2.4 million children are abused. Unfortunately, 1 in 25 churches will respond to allegations of child molestation. How are you protecting the children at your church? Now more than ever churches need to perform background checks on staff and volunteers. Simple background checks are easy and inexpensive. www.protectmyministry.com is one of America’s leading background screening solutions for ministry. Developers of the industry’s first web-based background screening and volunteer recruiting system, Protect My Ministry has a national background check service that is timely, cost effective, and accurate.