Part of Women of Vision is educating ourselves and others about the issues that affect our community and our global community. There are many resources out there to read in order to learn. This is an ongoing list in order to promote education so that we can become better advocates.

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African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa, David Maranz
Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus
Bitter Grounds, Sandra Benitez
Blood Brothers, Elias Chacour
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, Jacqueline Novogratz
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier
Bruchko, Bruce Olson
A Chance to Die, Elisabeth Elliot
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, Muhammad Yunus
Dangerous Surrender: What Happens When You Say Yes to God, Kay Warren
Daughter of the Killing Fields, Theary Seng
Daughters of Islam: Building Bridges With Muslim Women, Miriam Adeney
The End of Poverty, Jeffrey D. Sachs
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Adeline Yen Mah
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, Tony Hendra
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, Loung Ung
From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women’s Stories, Michael Gorkin
Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas
The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls
Good News about Injustice, Gary A. Haugen
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Hole in our Gospel, Richard Stearns
Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas Friedman
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
A Mind for Missions: Ten Ways to Build Your World Vision, Paul Borthwick
Ministering Cross-Culturally, Marvin Mayers and Sherwood Lingenfelter
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Open Hands: Lessons on Giving and Receiving, Jana Mullins
Operation World, Patrick Johnstone
Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis
Real Hope in Chicago, Wayne L. Gordon & Randall Frame
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity, Ronald J. Sider
Same Kind of Different As Me, Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World, Mae Elise Cannon
Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigor
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
Terrify No More, Gary A. Haugen
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children, Melissa Faye Greene
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World, Mark Pendergrast
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America, Mike Yankoski
The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood, Kien Nguyen
Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World, Jean Shinoda Bolen
Walking with the Poor, Bryant Myers
We Belong To The Land, Elias Chacour
Where There Is No Doctor, David Werner
The White Man’s Burden, William Easterly
When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbell
Who Switched The Price Tags?, Tony Campolo

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