Books Written by Gena

Separated by the Border was published in 2019 with InterVarsity Press. Visit its webpage for more about the book. 
A Smoldering Wick: Igniting Missions Work with Sustainable Practices was originally published in 2016. Find out more below:
Alisa & the Coronavirus was a collaborative work with Gena and her daughter. It was featured as part of Wheaton's Humanitarian Disaster Institute COVID-19 Family Toolkit.

Contributed Anthologies

The Deconstructionists Playbook is a compilation of authors speaking to a wide and diverse audience all cresting the same wave: Evangelicalism. Call us backsliders, Exvies, or spiritual misfits, but we've exited more traditional church spaces and rhetoric and are anxious to reconstruct our ideas on God, the Bible, and religion. With the chorus of some 60 authors, journey through an anthology of devotional days that celebrate this epic churning of faith. In three sections, these authors invite you to deconstruct religion and systems of oppression, reconstruct faith principles around the elements of social justice, and step happily into liberation theology as an act of resistance against white supremacy and patriarchy. By taking part in this emulsion of ideas, you will find yourself in a movement of acceptance, self love, and finding God in mysterious places. 
If you care about racial prejudice and want to stand against racism but aren't sure how to get involved, then the LEAD Anti-racism Challenge: A 40-Day Journey is for you. If you feel that love for God and others is the key to healing racial prejudice, then this book is for you. If you would like to understand and get more involved in showing love to people across the lines of diversity or are passionate about anti-racism and want to help lead a movement, then this book is for you. Join our diverse group of writers on this courageous 40-day devotional journey through stories, prayers, and radical growth. Your life will never be the same. Learn to: Listen, Embrace, Advocate, and Dream. “That we all may be one” is our earnest prayer. Take the pledge www.leadpledge.org
Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions is for those who suspect that current practices of short-term missions are in need of serious reform. It is a book for those who recognize that, in this decade of global upheaval--and in light of the cultural, political, and demographic shifts affecting churches everywhere--now is the time for change. The essays here are intended to equip and inspire any who want to advocate for change but may not yet know what change looks like. This book offers honest perspectives from people who care about the purposes of short-term missions yet know that we must figure out better ways of achieving them. This book is a platform for visionaries who are calling for better ways for the church to engage the needs of the world.