Non-Fiction Books

Hallelujah Anyway is the biography of David Johnson: beloved husband, father, and pastor. Hallelujah Anyway traces the Christian conversion of an Englishman who became an evangelist, American citizen, and eventually a pastor in Virginia (USA). Written from the perspective of his lovely wife, Jean Johnson.

There is a popular saying in Kenya: Nobody walks with another man's gait. A person's gait is as unique as their fingerprints or voice patterns. To borrow someone else's gait is to become someone else. Churches in the non-Western world should not attempt to imitate the gait of Western churches, nor should we want them to. In other words, indigenous churches have the irreplaceable privilege of being God's best version of themselves-standing secure with their own unique stance and walking with their own distinctive gait. Unfortunately, when Western Christians engage in global contexts where there is economic disparity, they readily and unknowingly assume, activate, and attract poverty. This behavior causes local churches to walk with another man's gait, lose their balance, and thus compromise God's best version of themselves. This Standing On Our Own Feet workbook via case studies, examples, questions, and application will help you, your team, and your church to intentionally assume, activate, and attract church dignity in your global engagement. Jean Johnson Author of We Are Not The Hero Director of Five Stones Global Jean Johnson serves as a missionary and coach as well as Director of Five Stones Global (formerly known as World Mission Associates). She has over 32 years of vocational cross-cultural ministry experience. This includes church planting among Cambodians in St. Paul/Minneapolis and 16 years of service in Cambodia. One of the key starting points of her missional journey was moving in with a first generation Cambodian refugee family of eight in the inner city of Minneapolis. She presently promotes and teaches about creating a culture of dignity, sustainability, and multiplication in Great Commission efforts.

There have been many requests from the We Are Not The Hero readership for a Participant’s Guide to accompany the book. Five Stones Global has responded to these requests. We have created a We Are Not The Hero Participant’s Guide. We Are Not The Hero is an “out of the box” book on global missions about how to create a culture of dignity, sustainability, and multiplication in Great Commission efforts in place of dependency, neocolonialism, and paternalism. The combination of the book, participant’s guide, and videos will give you, your team, organization, or church a engaging way to learn about and apply best practice in missions. In the Participant’s Guide, there are six lessons to process the book and six videos to launch each lesson. Start each lesson with the BIG IDEA delivered through a video. Internalize and explore the content with stimulating QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER. Ensure you capture the important principles via SUM IT ALL UP. Apply the concepts and principles through ACTION STEPS.To order the videos, please visit fivestonesglobal.org.

No other Western settlement story is more famous than the Donner Party&;s ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But a few years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849 and the young men who traveled by wagon and foot from Iowa to the California gold rush.  The Jayhawkers&; journey took them through the then uncharted and unnamed hottest, driest, lowest spot in the continent&;now aptly known as Death Valley. After leaving Salt Lake City to break a road south to the Pacific Coast that would eliminate crossing the snowy Sierra Nevada, the party veered off the Old Spanish Trail in southern Utah to follow a mountaineer&;s map portraying a bogus trail that claimed to cut months and hundreds of miles off their route to the gold country. With winter coming, however, they found themselves hopelessly lost in the mountains and dry valleys of southern Nevada and California.  Abandoning everything but the shirts on their backs and the few oxen that became their pitiful meals, they turned their dreams of gold to hopes of survival. Utilizing William Lorton&;s 1849 diary of the trek from Illinois to southern Utah, the reminiscences of the Jayhawkers themselves, the keen memory of famed pioneer William Lewis Manly, and the almost daily diary of Sheldon Young, Johnson paints a lively but accurate portrait of guts, grit, and determination.