Church Partnering Articles

Pastor Glenn Hanna serves at a large cross-cultural church in the heart of Pittsburgh. Under his guidance, there has been a revival of interest in missions that has produced a number of people comi...

The Reentry Team: Caring for Your Returning Missionaries, in Section I, Chapter 1 establishes the joint responsibility for missionary care between the Church and mission agency. Chapter 2 ...

The Calling Journey fills a vital need for coaches by mapping out the progression of stages and transitions God moves us through on the road to our call. Each stage has a unique growth agenda, and ...

The mission of TCK Training is to come alongside parents and sending entities for the purpose of equipping, encouraging, and empowering them to raise up healthy Third Culture Kids.

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Defining what it means to be an MK ranks right up there with summarizing the plot of Inception or The Matrix. We’re not just Rubik’s Cubes. We’re Rubik’s Cubes whose facets are made of multicultura...

It was 2001. My family had arrived in Kazakhstan in 1996, the first American family in our town, and been joined by other Americans and Aussies over the next several years. It was a fairly isolated...

Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves confused and in a state of panic at coming home. Whil...

Survey results In August 2013, I used Survey Monkey to find out more what challenges repatriates face on returning “home.” In this article I am summarising my findings, so if you’d like more inform...

If you’re perplexed by the changes in your recently returned traveller, the following comments from three young adults offer some helpful insights.

Mind the Gaps is intended to empower churches, to complement and enhance the efforts of the member care department of mission sending agencies, and to reduce the attrition rate of missionaries by e...

Serving As Senders: How to Care for Your Missionaries While They are Preparing to Go, While They are on the Field and When They Return Home. The title says it all! A missionary needs care in at lea...