Missionaries are people. That may sound like an all-too-simple statement, but more often than not churches, care providers, and mission committees can treat or, at the very least, conceive of their missionaries as caricatures, not people.
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Friends and former teammates Archie Chankin and Andy Johnson share about the ways that teammates can provide soul care for one another.
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Our guest writer shares thoughts on how workers and churches can understand each other better.
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This conversation takes a look at anxiety and the worker, and offers some important perspectives on how to help your worker stay healthy.
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This conversation is focused on the impact of trauma on cross-cultural workers, and how to provide a safe and non-anxious presence to those you support when they face it.
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This is the first of a three-month series on mental health issues in worker care. Missy Gray from MRN and Jeff Holland from Pioneer Bible Institute will be talking about burnout, trauma, and anxiety, and how we can be a supportive, non-anxious presence to the cross-cultural workers we support.
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As we wrap up six months of getting to know cross-cultural servants better through the Messenger, Andy Johnson, MRN’s director of care, helps us consider some of the unique stressors facing global workers as well as offers brief counsel on how to begin addressing them.
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In recent years we have been fortunate to be exposed to a growing wealth of information concerning Third Culture Kids (TCKs – what we formerly called ‘missionary kids’) and the blessings and challenges that arise from living and working abroad for the sake of the gospel.
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Often those who are dedicating their lives to global sharing of the gospel are family units with children. So, the children also say their goodbyes, pack their belongings, and as they hold their parents’ hands their beautiful little feet scamper, skip, hop, and run across unknown and confusing countries. With wide eyes and laughter, which can frequently dissolve to tears, these young hearts deal with loss, grief, and identity confusion, just as their parents do, as they learn to adapt to cultures, people, values, and unique ways of living.
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While the missionary is called to go, the sending church is called to care for those sent. For the sake of the mission, it is vital that senders understand what their global worker faces in each stage of their life cycle.
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Everything – whether it’s a new car, a new phone, or a new coffee maker – has a life cycle to it. How it performs and what its needs are change depending upon when you stumble upon it. While missionaries are a bit more complicated than a coffee maker, how they function and what their needs are change depending upon what part of their life cycle they are in.
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If you are anything like me, you’ve already got a reading list longer than 2022 will allow. As I sit to write, I actually have 14 inches of reading material waiting for me on my bedside table (if anyone’s counting – which I evidently am).
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