This is essential reading by everyone with a heart for missions. There are a lot of issues and oftentimes its not something others can understand. Its a place to be mentored by the lives of those who have learned to thrive in this life. Distress in reentering crosscultural missionary workers and the. It is important to ask these questions and more important to answer them. Judging from the book, it seems that the two big problems for returning missionaries is that a few people have. The reentry transition 10 served the lord with great humility v. Coming homereentry book 1 devotional bible studies. Its a place to crack open our hearts and let the stories flow. The book shares a vital key to successbeing bold, but not overbearing. Its time to start thinking about reentry programs for mkslike reboot. For the misunderstood street preacher, the short term missionary or the long term ambassador for christ, this book has helpful insights in what we are. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. A member of our facebook group asked for reentry repatriationreverse culture shock book recommendations, so i decided to make a master list.
Missions and mental health resources from ron and bonnie koteskey and new hope international ministries. Books and reading concerning reentry and homeassignment issues for missionaries. Link and information for missionary reentry resources. Consider taking a course or reading a book about the reentry process missionaries walk through or ask a former missionary about his or her reentry experience. Books about reverse culture shock and missionary reentry.
Best missionary books score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. They are still planning to host their programs this summer, lord wiling. It can also be an encouraging book for missionaries to read as well. It addresses all the key questions that people have regarding missions and all the major issues that come up on the mission field that you need to be prepared for. Coming home reentry transition book missionary care. We will start when he was first mentioned in the book of acts and follow him through his first missionary journey. Its high time we stopped letting stigma prevent us from thriving and faced the truth about missionaries and depression. Join us for a fourday debriefing retreat designed especially for global servants engaged in crosscultural ministry.
We desire each worker to thrive wherever they have been planted. Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. In each module there is a video, questions and action steps so you can take the time to sit with jesus and allow him to lead you in your reentry back home. Im really excited about this book and thank god for.
Coming home is probably the hardest thing youve done in your years of service, harder than moving overseas in the first place. Reentry making the transition from missions to life at home by peter jordan. Understanding stress stress and singleness stress and missionary marriages missionary stress and children adolescents and stress selection and missionary stress culture shock stress and interpersonal relationships reentry stress missionary resources. This rocky reentry blog was created to help global workers transition back to their home country. This book is the key in helping every person involved in missions to come face to face with the key issues of reenty. This was an excellent introduction to reentry experiences but i was looking for more depth than this book offered. Liz schandorff is with us once again to share how her reentry is going. Please give this book to your missions pastor or mission agency you support and save the time, energy, money and embarrassment of. The participants as well as family and friends need to understand that one good way for people to process what happened to them is to tell and retell their mission trip stories.
Caring for your returning missionaries 9781880185070 by neal pirolo. When returning to their passport countries, many missionaries have difficulty reentering the culture in which they. If you only want to get one book about being a missionary get this one. When jonah finally obeyed god and went to nineveh, he was there only a few weeks. Give to velvet ashes support kingdom builders across the world. They are about boarding school,about being back in north america, about high school, about. The position may also be used for other sexual activity, such as anal sex. Reentry retreats and resources mennonite central committee. We will study the life and ministry of the apostle paul. For anyone who is sending a missionary, caring for a missionary on the field, or preparing to minister to a missionary who moving off the field, this book is a must. This site features a searchable database of missionary care resources, articles, and books as well as brochures and e books related to missionary wellbeing and related mental health issues.
A comparative study to determine the perspective of. Definition reentry stress is like culture stress also called culture shock in many ways only in reverse. Reentry making the transition from missions to life at home. Good debriefing and reentry preparation will ensure that mission trip participants understand that a shortterm mission experience is not just a dot on the timeline. In 1980 from mission to mission was formed to offer support to returning missioners and volunteers as. Reentry, making the transition from missions to life at home jordan, peter ywam publishing. Making the transition from missions to life at home my great desire in writing this book is to help people safely navigate the transition from the mission field to home. The reentry for a missionary is hard, no matter how great you think someones handling it. It also paints a very clear picture of what you can expect things to be like when youre on the mission. The inbetween is a totally foreign and completely exhilarating experience. It is his hearts desire to see our missionaries better cared for. Every year hundreds of missioners and volunteers return home after having lived and served in another culture for an extended period of time.
These ministries are funded through a special offering taken at the kentucky wmu annual meeting and other wmu events. It would be a great remembrance and keepsake of their mission. Reentry after shortterm missionary service 7 jonah the first shortterm crosscultural missionary recorded in the bible, a rather reluctant one, was jonah. As i look back at my own life, i realize that i could have benefited much from the information contained in this book. Missions resources reentry making the transition from missions to life at home. A lodging place cyprus is located 30 minutes from the larnaca international airport in a village called kalavasos. While culture stress is associated with a sense of disorientation brought on by a new and unfamiliar environment, reentry stress is precipitated by returning to a setting you presume to. Im really excited about this book and thank god for its important and vital message. Velvet ashes is here to connect the hearts of women who are separated by geography but bound together by the life of serving overseas. Going on a stm outreach can be like going into outer space.
This book is divided into two sections around the space travel metaphor. Making the transition from missions to life at home introduces the concept of burnout after coming home from the mission field. This is when its very important to be closer to god than ever. Ill update this list as i find new reentry books and articles. Books about reverse culture shock, repatriation, and missionary reentry issues. For a variety of reasons, many find this transition called reentry transition to be challenging. Velvet ashes is a place for us to gather, to belong. Here 10 tips to follow for healthy reentry whether you re a missionary or expat.
Reentry after shortterm missionary service missionary care. Making the transition from missions to life at home 9780927545402 by peter jordan. Its practical wisdom and touchingly truetolife stories will, without condemnation, assist the church in receiving back the ones they have sent out. What every missionary needs to know about reentry sarita hartz. Contact us to arrange on in your church or ministry. For missionaries and mission agencies alike this book can be a fantastic supplementary resource to a good debriefing experience for returnees.
The author was a child in a missionary family and this book is a series of letters that were never written. A comparative study to determine the perspective of missionary children on reentry prior to reentering the united states for college and to draw some conclusions to aid the development of reentry programs for missionary children. This site features a searchable database of missionary care resources, articles, and books as well as brochures and ebooks related to missionary wellbeing and related mental health issues. For anyone who is sending a missionary, caring for a missionary on the field, or preparing to minister to a missionary who moving off the field, this book is a mustread. The reentry team rather talks to the team that is going to help the missionary through those five steps we mentioned earlier. This book could have rescued some people i know who fell into the pitfalls the author mentions concerning reentry.
List of resources for families making the transition back to their. In 2006, the program was relaunched as drexel physician refresherreentry program and redesigned using the colleges excellence in education, instructional technology resources and national expertise in reentry to include onsite and distance learning modules. Best missionary books score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. You may give to this ministry throughout the year by clicking the donate button. Back then, missionaries were simply coming home on furlough. These three books talk to the missionary and give them insight into what they can expect as they prepare to come home. The missionary position or manontop position is a sex position in which, generally, a woman lies on her back and a man lies on top of her while they face each other and engage in vaginal intercourse. His first day there, he preached that within 40 days god would destroy the city. Your missionary memories book is a compilation of your weekly emails, pictures and other chosen content. Making the transition from missions to life at home, said about the book. Ministries to missionaries kentucky womans missionary. While talking with the elders of the ephesian church, he mentioned the following things acts 20. Paul, the guy who was the terrorist becomes one of the greatest teachers in the history of the church.
Having sensed that reentry support was the most neglected, yet greatly needed, he has given us this throughtful study on how to care for returning missionaries. The reentry team is a must read for church leaders and laymen alike. When your missionary returns home, and youve posted the final entry on their missionary blog site, think about how great it would be to have all of those letters and pictures together in a nice hardbound book. Here 10 tips to follow for healthy reentry whether youre a missionary or expat. It is commonly associated with heterosexual sexual activity, but is also used by samesex couples. And help your missionary friend have a good reentry. That was my reentry process after 6 years living overseas. Making the transition from missions to life at home. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author. Although i have written several books about reentry for people to use during different phases of their return and for different people, none are for those returning. A quick and easy, sometimes even entertaining, read. The septemberoctober 2000 edition of physician magazine reported that 80 percent of pastors and 84 percent of their spouses are discouraged or dealing with depression. Missionary reentry resources world christian resources. The author uses his years of experience in the missionary program to help the reader reach.
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