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Loving Someone Who Has Dementia
Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It's no...
Expectations and Burnout - Women Surviving the Great Commission
Missionary women have high expectations when they respond to God’s call; of themselves, their mission agencies, host cultures, churches, co-workers, and even of God. These expectations are often ti...
Miko's Journey
Miko’s Journey is a picture book with a coloring page next to each story page, following the adventure of Miko the chameleon who is moving to a new forest. Miko has to say goodbye to his f...
Back Home -- Daily Reflections on Reentry -- For those who lived and studied abroad
This guidebook by Lisa Espineli Chinn could be useful for international and study abroad students, short and long-term missionaries, and even those who aren't crossing international borders, but ar...
Tender Care providing pastoral care for God's global servants
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...
Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service
When you go abroad to serve, you’re thinking about the language, the losses,and the excitement. When you return home you’re thinking about your friends and family, the losses, and the relief. Most ...
Growing Through Stress
What is Stress? An enemy to be avoided? A twentieth-century disease? A sign that you are inadequate or unspiritual? Something invented by psychologists? This book sweeps away these misconceptions, ...
Dark Night Experience Survive, Revive and Thrive
There Are Three Certainties in Life: Death, Taxes…and the Dark Night Experience. Dark night experiences, or DNX, are those terrible, painful experiences that shock the core of our being and fill us...
Misunderstood: The Impact of Growing Up Overseas in the 21st Century
Over 200 million people currently live abroad; more than 50 million are temporary residents, intending to return to their country of origin. Misunderstood explores the impact international life can...
Fishers of Men (Coming Home)
14 Reentry Bible Studies for those returning from career or short-term overseas service.
NOTE: may be out of print, unavailable in Sept 2021
By: Howard and Bonnie Lisech