Lausanne World Pulse – 20th Edition of the Mission Handbook: The Most Comprehensive One-volume Reference on the North American Overseas Mission Effort

The 20th edition of the Mission Handbook.

Since it was first published in 1953, the Mission Handbook, under different names, different publishers and in different formats, has been providing thousands of readers with comprehensive information on United States and Canadian-based Protestant mission agencies engaged in overseas missions. The Mission Handbook: U.S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas, 2007-2009 edition gives complete information on more than eight hundred North American ministries that are changing the world for Jesus Christ. This invaluable resource includes information such as agency name and contact information, purpose statement, areas of ministry, countries of ministry, number of personnel and more.

According to Jonathan Bonk, executive director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center and editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, “No other source comes close to matching the Mission Handbook for comprehensiveness, reliability and usability.”

History of the Mission Handbook
The Mission Handbook first appeared in 1953 with the title Foreign Missionary Agencies in the United States: A Check List. It was compiled and mimeographed by the Missionary Research Library (MRL) in New York. The MRL was founded in 1914 at the initiative of John R. Mott who chaired the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910 and headed its continuation committee.