Three Steps Missionaries Can Use to Cope With Challenges
In this video, Dr. Ann Hamel shares three steps to help us cope with the challenges we face in life. Missionary life can be a wonderful source of blessings—both for the missionary and those they serve. But a mission can also be an unexpectedly difficult experience. We live in a world were difficult things happen.…
Read MoreHomeschool Options for Missionaries
More missionaries are homeschooling today than ever before. The advantages in mobility, flexibility, and individualized parent-supervised instruction allows more time for children to be involved with their parents in mission work. But just what is homeschooling? Homeschooling can fall anywhere along a continuum between these two extremes: a. HOME School: learning based on real-life experiences…
Read More7 Effective Ways to Deal With Culture Shock
Would you try running an iOS app on an Android smartphone? This illustrates what people experience who have been enculturated (“programmed”) in one cultural setting (our “operating system”) and find themselves uncomfortable and disoriented in another cultural environment. I want to talk to you about culture shock – a psychological upset that stems from unfamiliar…
Read MoreHow to Prepare to Cross Cultural Boundaries
Most of us remember an experience that made a trip to another country memorable. Often it is some aspect of the new culture we had not yet learned: for example, greeting our foreign host, perhaps being unable to speak the new language, or feeling unsure how to respond properly to the invitation to join the…
Read MoreHow connected are you?
You are venturing forth as a missionary. The main purpose of your mission is to share Jesus, to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and to extend the lordship of Jesus. No matter what else you do (build, heal, teach, dig, or preach), your identity is to be a missionary. This is not…
Read MoreYour Expectation and Its Implication for Mission
Have you ever gone out to eat and not had enough money to cover the bill? Have you taken your car to get fixed at the garage and returned to find the bill twice what you expected it to be? In both cases you were not really ready for what happened because your expectations were…
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