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A Liturgy for When A Loved One Is Ailing Back Home
By PortalBot • October 20, 2022

A liturgy for missionaries who are burdened by news of ailing loved ones in their home country.

By: Brad Bell

Reading Romans With Eastern Eyes Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission
By PortalBot • August 09, 2022

What does it mean to “read Romans with Eastern eyes”?

Combining research from Asian scholars with his many years of experience living and working in East Asia, Jackson di...

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
By PortalBot • November 26, 2021

What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Wester...

Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids: A Practical Guide to Preventive Care
By PortalBot • September 11, 2021

If we could ensure that our TCKs would grow up healthy and resilient, we would do it in a heartbeat. In Raising up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids, Lauren Wells has gifted us with a gent...

Serving Well Help fo the Wannabe, Newbie, or Weary Cross-cultural Christian Worker
By PortalBot • March 17, 2021

Are you dreaming of working abroad? Imagining serving God in another land? Or are you already on the field, unsure about what to do next or how to manage the stresses of cross-cultural life? Or per...

Tender Care providing pastoral care for God's global servants
By PortalBot • November 06, 2020

The heart and soul of caring for God's scattered servants. Written by "shepherds: for "shepherds" who feel called into a ministry of soul care to God's scattered servants. It provides practical and...

7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Celebrating Muscles
By PortalBot • August 23, 2020

Be honest, when you think of cross-cultural workers as a whole, we are not known for being great at celebrating. Instead, we might be known for working hard, caring deeply about those we came to se...