Category: Re-Entry
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10 Characteristics of a Church on Mission
The Tension to Be on Mission The church in every generation is called to bring the good news of the kingdom into a spiritual encounter with the aspirations and challenges of that culture where it resides. Simply, believers are on a mission from God in their respective communities. To engage today’s culture with the Gospel…
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8 Ways to Serve Missionaries Coming Home
TEAM Christian Missions Blog > Missionary Life > 8 Ways to Serve Missionaries Coming Home TEAM Eats: Creamy Chicken Curry from Pakistan Missionaries Before They’re Missionaries [March Prayer Focus] 8 Ways to Serve Missionaries Coming Home Feb 26 2020 28 When Karyn left for the mission field, she thought she’d never return. She gave up her job as a…
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The Ultimate Goal of Every Missionary & Missions Work
Missionaries are commissioned to travel across the world to a different nation to proclaim the gospel. Mission trips vary from constructing a shelter to providing nourishment and medical care to others. Our readers have been asking what initiated the thought of missions in the first place. What is the ultimate goal for both missionaries and mission…
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Missionary care: How churches can help returning workers settle and process
This article is adapted from a Global Missions Podcast interview with Melissa Chaplin, author of “Returning Well.” Melissa helps churches lovingly care for cross-cultural workers who are re-integrating into life in their passport country. You can listen to the full interview here. (The conversation with Melissa starts at 9:38.) When cross-cultural workers return from the mission…
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Coming Home: When Missionaries Come off the Field
They were so vulnerable and wounded, barely able to make eye contact. They’d gone overseas directly after college, bright with hope and the thrill of obedience. And here they were, three years later, looking so lost and alone, feeling all the weight of their supposed failure. When missionaries come off the field, many churches and…