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Beating the Drum for Missionary Care: An Interview with Neal Pirolo
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Katie Rowe interviews Neil Pirolo, author of Serving as Senders—Today: How to Care for Your Missionaries as They Prepare to Go, Are on the Field and Return Home, and The Reentry Team:...

Dutch medical terms and body parts in Dutch
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Lost for words while visiting a Dutch-speaking doctor? Don't worry; consult this extensive list of Dutch medical terms next time you visit a clinic.

By: Expatica

Faith-Based Resources for Chronic Pain, Disability, Depression, and other forms of Suffering
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

A list of faith-based books, organizations, and websites for those dealing with chronic pain, disability, depression, and other forms of suffering. 

By: Terry Powell

Adverse Outcomes to Early Middle Age Linked With Childhood Residential Mobility
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Introduction: Links between childhood residential mobility and multiple adverse outcomes through to maturity, and effect modification of these associations by familial SES, are incompletely underst...

Family Factors in Missionary Attrition
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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. 

By: A...

Closer to the Truth about Current Missionary Attrition: An Initial Analysis of Results
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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!

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Five Benefits of Vacation
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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...

Cast and Splint Care
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Care and management: Walking in your foot or leg cast; Itching skin; Cast odor; How to keep your cast or splint dry; Pain management

Crutch Training | Instructions on How to Use Crutches
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Step-by-step guide on how to set up crutches, walk with crutches, get up from a seated position, sit down, go upstairs and downstairs.

By: Washington University Orthopedics

World Life Expectancy
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

World life expectancy has one of the largest global health and life expectancy databases in the world. Explore it through thousands of pages of Maps, Charts and feature stories. Compare your c...

Deadly Emotions
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Did you know that negative emotions can adversely affect your health? Depression, anger, guilt, condemnation, low self-esteem-these are only a few of the lethal toxins that threaten body and spirit...

Me, Myself, and I: Staying Grounded While Single and Living Abroad
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

 Taking Route is a group of expat women who want to reach out to other expat women around the globe and encourage them to take root, right where they’ve been planted.

One of the best...