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Tag Archives: Missionary Care
Healthy at Home: Healthy Minds Part 1—Debriefing
“Personal debriefing allows time for sharing the paradoxes of the field experience. To be seen, heard, and understood in a safe space is invaluable to a global worker’s health. This vital process allows them to learn, grow, and look forward … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy teams, debrief, equip, Global Workers, Go Global Care, Houstons First Baptist Church, Missionary Care, reentry
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Healthy at Home
My first article in a series on how local churches can care for global workers – http://www.upstreamcollective.org https://www.theupstreamcollective.org/post/healthy-at-home-providing-holistic-care-for-returned-global-workers Healthy at Home: Five Ways to Provide Holistic Care for Returned Global Workers “If you haven’t experienced exile, if you haven’t at … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocacy Team, Houstons First Baptist Church, Missionary Care, Missions, Sent Ones
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Caring for Missionaries through Connection: The Three C’s
A perfect illustration of “out of sight, out of mind” is that of the missionary serving overseas. We have heard this refrain many times in our conversations with missionaries in our church’s care ministry. The Cambridge Dictionary describes it this … Continue reading
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Tagged Global Worker, Go Global Care, Houstons First Baptist Church, Missionary Care, Missions
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Are You a Returned Global Worker? The Struggle to Re-engage is Real
“Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread. Through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, we’ll wander back to home and bed…” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, Missionary Care, Missions, Returned Global Workers, Reverse Culture Shock
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Where Do Returned Global Workers Find Community?
Missionary Care: Providing a Place for Returned Missionaries to Gather
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Tagged Christianity, Faith, Missionary Care, relationships, Reverse Culture Shock
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