Melissa Chaplin, author or “Returning Well” helps us understand what it’s like for workers to return “home” after cross-cultural service. Melissa offers insight to churches to help them lovingly care for cross-cultural workers who are re-integrating into life in their passport country.

Giving yourself grace during re-entry to your passport country as a season of ministry changes. By: Bernie Anderson

I have moved to a third new country in seven years (and that’s not counting all the moves back and forth to my passport country.) Your story is probably similar if you are reading this blog, and let’s be honest, it is exhausting. Besides the logical nightmare of moving countries, there is the emotional nightmare of finding your place and your meaning again. During the previous moves and other life transitions I started to compile a mental list of rules to help me with the transition. These rule...

Ask missionaries about coming home, and they may describe it as traumatic or even “worse than going overseas.” Here's how to make returning a blessing. Author: Bethan Duval