Katie Rowe interviews Neil Pirolo, author of Serving as Senders—Today: How to Care for Your Missionaries as They Prepare to Go, Are on the Field and Return Home , and  The Reentry Team: Caring for Your Returning Missionaries.   The current edition of Serving as Senders—Today is a revision of the original, first published in 1991. Since then, it has been translated into 20 languages and has nearly a half million copies in print. In reference to missionary/member care, Neal wrote, “I have be...

Blog, list of resources on risk, and other training available from someone who has lived in some of the most difficult parts of the world for decades. By: Anna Hampton

Bushong, a licensed marriage and family therapist, delves into this previously, unexplored world of how to effectively counsel clients raised outside of their parents' home culture. The readers will discover what are the basic characteristics and counseling skills effective with Third Culture Kids (those who have spent the majority of their developmental years outside of their passport country). Author: Lois Bushong Publisher: Mango Tree Intercultural Services

Book Recommendation. Someone has said, all the easy places have already been reached with the gospel. It is now the more risky difficult places on the rough edges of our world that yet need the Good News of Jesus.  Facing Danger  delivers more than what we would expect from an armchair theologian or missiologist. It is born rather out of the author’s diligent research set in the complicated context of a decade living and working in war ravaged Afghanistan.  Facing Danger  will be read by r...

Erik Vyhmeister explains what it means to be a Third Culture Kid, and why this matters in an increasingly connected world. Having grown up across four continents, Erik Vyhmeister shares his experience as a Third Culture Kid both abroad and returning "home" to the United States.  Presenter: Erik Vyhmeister  Length: 15:49