Paul Bowers

The Come Back Effect

Church Leadership & Ministry

“The environment we create for our guests, team members, and regular attendees speaks to the focus and heart of the organization. Jason and Jonathan clearly articulate, in a practical manner, a framework that ensures everything communicates a loving embrace for all who open the doors.”

Thomas A. Lambie

Evangelism & Missions

“[For layout person and cover design person: Blurbs by Paul Bowers and Tibebe Eshete go on back cover. Three other blurbs, by Debela Birri, Margaret Mary Hall, and Shiferaw Wolde Michael, appear on the Front Matter. Delete this note when done.] “Paul Balisky earlier made a splendid contribution to the academic study of Christianity in modern Ethiopia with his Wolaitta Evangelists: A Study of Religious Innovation in Southern Ethiopia, 1937–1975. Here he has matched that achievement with an account of a singular figure in Protestant mission endeavors in the first half of the twentieth century in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Palestine. In recent decades the remarkable role of Thomas Lambie has been fading from collective memory. But thanks now to the labor of Paul Balisky, not any longer. This story is well worth telling, and Balisky does so effectively.”