MEMBER CARE Articles

Our passion is to serve member care communities all around the world…so our toolbox includes crisis response and other member care resources in several languages (with more to come), as well as lin...

OSCAR is an acronym of 'One Stop Centre for Advice and Resources'. If you're involved or interested in Christian or mission work, in the UK or overseas, OSCAR is your gateway to useful, relate...

There are at least five benefits of taking time off and being away. I’m talking about the wonderful deposits we place into our souls when we take a vacation. I’m returning from four weeks off of wo...

For those of you who participated in or have been following the missionary attrition study from last fall, this is the post that you have been waiting for. It is time for some initial results!

In this blog post, Andrea Sears conducts a further analysis of the results of a "returned misisonary" survey, examining how family factors influence missionary attrition. 

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Leaving is hard on stayers. Here are 10 tips for staying well.

For hundreds of years, Christians have taken the time to examine their lives by reflecting backwards: what went well and what went, well… not so well.  In these days ahead as we anticipate a n...

‎Christianity · 2019

Walking alone at a park, a friend of mine saw a woman busily walking towards her, dictating something into her phone. The woman looked earnest and concentrated. She came closer and closer, and as h...

The reality of living overseas is that you are going to grieve multiple things, deeply. Anyone moving out of their passport country has a dream. Some want to help HIV patients o…

April and May are usually a grieving season for mission communities. This year it has been particularly rough. Schools closed without warning. People evacuated with a day’s notice…

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Moving abroad with a child with additional needs. The range of extra needs is enormous. I hope that some of these general suggestions prove helpful.

by Carole Hallett Mobbs , Expat ...