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Five Benefits of Vacation
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 ...
The Missions Experience
People who feel called by God and passionate about serving others sell their stuff, pack up the essentials, say their goodbyes, and tote their chil ...
Healthy, Resilient, and Effective
This book has been designed to help leaders of sending agencies and churches in creating a comprehensive care plan for their members in missio ...
Empowering and connecting Christians for mission and ministry - OSCAR
Your gateway to Christian jobs, mission opportunities, events, articles, advice and resources
Closer to the Truth about Current Missionary Attrition: An Initial Analysis of Results
by Katie Rowe For those of you who participated in or have been following the missionary attrition study from last fall, this is the post that you ...
Breaking the Silence about Childhood Trauma | Dani Bostick | TEDxGreenville
Most discussions of PTSD focus on veterans to the extent that many people who suffer from PTSD are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, especially am ...
Staying Well: 10 Tips for Expats Who are Left Behind
Leaving is hard. Being left is harder. Transition is a huge part of life for an expat. That’s understood. By the time ...
Beating the Drum for Missionary Care: An Interview with Neal Pirolo
In her post “Closer to the Truth about Current Missionary Attrition: An Initial Analysis of Results,” Katie Rowe looks at the findings of a recent ...
The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale: Understanding the Impact of Long-term Stress
Use the Holmes & Rahe stress scale to measure how much stress is in your life, and whether you're at risk of becoming sick.
How Pandemic Isolation is Like Missionary Life
For the first time since we’ve been overseas, friends and family from the US are as desperate as I am to connect online. As I’ve been talking with ...
Change Your Brain and Resilience | Lehan Stemmet | TEDxManukauInstituteOfTechnology
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 ' ...