Live Wholistically
Taking a call that requires a move to a new place brings its own set of challenges. Learning to live in a new environment can be difficult and can strain even the most flexible and patient missionaries. At IWM we care about you and your family’s whole beings, and we want to see you adjust and learn to live well among those you have been called to serve. Here you will find resources to help you transition, adjust, and learn to flourish in your host culture. Our goal is that you and your family thrive – not just survive!
Blog
A Moment of Clarity: A TCK’s experience
His name was Bill, and he rode a bicycle. It was an old cruiser that looked carefully oiled and, at …
Transition
(tran zish uhn) n. 1. The process of changing from one state or condition to another. 2. A period of …
Volunteer and Career Missionary Relationships
Building a well-functioning team anywhere takes intentional effort. The diversity of missionary teams made up of volunteer and career missionaries …
10 Essential Survival Tips for Annual Leave
Annual Leave can be many things. It can be fun and exciting, and yet exhausting and expensive. It is a …
Children and Discipleship
As a church we believe that we were placed here on earth at this time to know God and to …
Characteristics and Implications of Being a TCK
A Third Culture Kid …a what? You may or may not be familiar with the term, but you are about …
The Pang of Separation
Two young people were married in 1980. Both received a Christian education from a college known as the “School of …
A Sari Adventure
My adventure into sari wearing came a little sooner than I expected. The ladies at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in …
20 Ways to Help Your Child Overcome Fear
All children develop fears while growing up. Whether they grow into more serious problems, or not, depends largely on how …
Preparing for Reentry
Re-entry…. Going “home”… I suppose we all dream about it from time to time—no matter how much we may love …
Money, the Media, and God’s Mission
Is it legitimate for people to ask questions in times of crisis? Certainly! Oftentimes in tones of desperation, we do …
TCK Education Today: Options and Factors to Consider
What should we do about our children’s education? What are our options? What would be best for Sue? Ino? Kwaku?… …
Balancing Act: Straddling the Demands of the Mission Field and Home
Nineteen eighty four – John Smith, a fictitious missionary to Zaire, receives a letter from his brother with news that …
Managing Crises and Emergencies
The Boy Scouts motto is “Be Prepared.” Successful work as an expatriate should include knowledgeable preparation for potential areas of …
Where Are My Roots?
I find myself asking this same question every furlough. When we attended Mission Institute in France, some years ago, we …
Taking Your Sanity onto the Plane
Life is full of transitions but very few of them are as challenging as making a move to (or from) …
Podcasts
Webinars
Third Culture Kids* (TCKs) are children who have spent a significant amount of time away from their parents’ home or passport country. Missionary Kids (MKs) are basically a more specific type of TCK, those whose parents serve as missionaries. With a growing globalized world, the number of TCKs has grown even though they’ve been around since ancient Bible times. In this Live Event, we explored TCKs in the Bible and lessons we can take from them that apply to modern TCKs.
To truly minister as Jesus Christ would, we need to know those we serve. When you’re in a different culture with a different language, different practices and different values, ministering requires diligent seeking and purpose.
In this Live Event, we explore Dr. Chapman’s 5 Love Languages and how they can be used to minister to others in our sphere of influence.
Many people in the world today are Muslim. They make up a significant percentage of unreached people groups. If you are interested in serving, or are serving, in a Muslim context, this live event is for you!
In this webinar, we explore ways to thrive and adapt to missionary family life in a Muslim context.
Life is made up of changes. Some are big, others small. These changes are also called “transitions.” When we decide to serve in a different cultures, or even in our own, we are destined to go through some big transitions.
In this webinar, we explore ways to prepare ourselves for these transitions, especially the difficult ones.
Did you know that East Asians place special value on family and family relationships? The Sigalaka sutra defines six important relationships and describes the ethics that define them. God also places special value on family. Join us as we explore family relationships from an East Asian perspective and discuss how we can use these values to present the Gospel and model the kingdom of God.
Life is a paradox. Joy and suffering, challenges and opportunities. And of course, in the mission field, it isn’t any different.
As we notice our world becoming more unbalanced day by day, how do we maintain our own balance between work demands and quality family time, even while we’re going through suffering and challenges?
Sometimes we think that the mission field is a destination. Instead, let’s look at it as a journey.
Every journey has a beginning. Is your family where that journey begins?
Welcome to our webinar on Homeschooling in the Mission Field. Some of the topics that we will talk about are:
– Choosing a curriculum that works for your child.
– Organization and planning.
– Homeschooling teenagers.
– How to deal with the challenges of homeschooling.
– Measuring your success in homeschooling.
Missionaries might encounter multiple safety issues such as robberies, theft, insurrections, natural disasters, and others.
In moments like this, local families have a stronger support network. Extended family, intricate knowledge of the language, a net of connections — all advantages that expatriate missionaries may not have readily available.
The current global crisis can possibly make local situations worse leading to shortages of food or other complications. As a result, you may face unexpected challenges and dangers.
Now, we don’t want to create any unnecessary fear, but we do want to share with you best practices to handle emergencies of various kinds.
