MEMBER CARE Articles

Reflections on Shepherding Cross-Cultural Workers

 Hope and Help in Member Care. Culture shock. Marital strife. Depression. Addictions. Disillusionment. Organization and team tensions. Family trauma....

Edited by: Jonathan J. Bonk, ...

This book explores how member care is being practiced around the world to equip sending organizations as they intentionally support their mission/aid personnel. The information provided includes pe...

WHO fact sheet on depression providing key facts and information on types and symptoms, contributing factors, diagnosis and treatment, WHO response.

[DESCRIPTION] In Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission we learn about how teams come together with varying expectations of what team life should be. The authors of...

The calling journey is the life stages and transitions we go through as we move to our ultimate calling. Here is a basic presentation of those steps. 

By: Tony Stolzfus

In this TEDx presentation Ruth Van Reken shares her insight on the griefs and gains of being the Third Culture Kid. Ruth Van Reken is a second generation Third Culture Kid (TCK - a child who spends...

Over 20 years ago Dr. Lehan Stemmet developed an interest in how people deal with challenges through what started as a personal project he called 'Deal With It'. This talk summarises part of his qu...

Sending people to share the gospel in another culture is only part of what it takes to be obedient to what we call "The Great Comission." The other part of the equation is that those who go out nee...

Each year we hear about New Year’s Resolutions – we make plans to lose weight, become more organized, be on time more. All great goals, but how many times have those goals been forgotten in Februar...

Using Jesus as Biblical example

English Manual and Guideline on World about Coordination and Disaster Management; published on 01 Sep 2003 by People In Aid, Relief Web, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCH...