Mission Resource
Before You Get Home
e-book
This is a new e-book on preparing for reentry.Written for people anticipating a return to their passport country several months in the future, this book helps them leave "right," making it easier for them to enter "right."Using the Exodus as a model, it gives them an overview of what is ...
The Spirituality of Fund-Raising
e-book
Fund-raising is a subject we seldom think about from a spiritual perspective. We may think of fund-raising as a necessary but unpleasant activity to support spiritual things. Or we might believe that fund-raising reflects a failure to plan well or to trust enough that God will provide for all our ...
Missionary Transitions
e-book
Missionaries go through major transitions when they move from their passport cultures to their host cultures and when they return "home." Of course, these transitions are discussed in this book; however, missionaries also go through transitions before they leave, while they are serving on the field and after they return ...
Pray As You Go
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Pray As You Go is a daily prayer session, designed to go with you wherever you go, to help you pray whenever you find time, but particularly whilst traveling to and from work, study, etc ...
Coming Home: When Missionaries Come off the Field
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They were so vulnerable and wounded, barely able to make eye contact. They’d gone overseas directly after college, bright with hope and the thrill of obedience. And here they were, three years later, looking so lost and alone, feeling all the weight of their supposed failure. When missionaries come off ...
Missionary care: How churches can help returning workers settle and process
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This article is adapted from a Global Missions Podcast interview with Melissa Chaplin, author of “Returning Well.” Melissa helps churches lovingly care for cross-cultural workers who are re-integrating into life in their passport country. You can listen to the full interview here. (The conversation with Melissa starts at 9:38.) When cross-cultural ...
The Ultimate Goal of Every Missionary & Missions Work
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Missionaries are commissioned to travel across the world to a different nation to proclaim the gospel. Mission trips vary from constructing a shelter to providing nourishment and medical care to others. Our readers have been asking what initiated the thought of missions in the first place. What is the ultimate goal ...
8 Ways to Serve Missionaries Coming Home
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TEAM Christian Missions Blog > Missionary Life > 8 Ways to Serve Missionaries Coming Home TEAM Eats: Creamy Chicken Curry from Pakistan Missionaries Before They’re Missionaries [March Prayer Focus] 8 Ways to Serve Missionaries Coming Home Feb 26 2020 28 When Karyn left for the mission field, she thought she’d never return. She gave ...
10 Characteristics of a Church on Mission
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The Tension to Be on Mission The church in every generation is called to bring the good news of the kingdom into a spiritual encounter with the aspirations and challenges of that culture where it resides. Simply, believers are on a mission from God in their respective communities. To engage ...