Missionaries
(Inter-cultural or international religious workers)
This page is designed to be a resource for missionaries concerning various issues in their ministry. In no way is this page intended to be an exhaustive reference, but it offers some general helps that we are aware of here at the USCWM.
- Support raising
- Serving as Senders by Neal Pirolo. Emmaus Road, International.
- Phone: 858-292-7020. E-mail: Emmaus_Road@eri.org
- Emotional, psychological, health and family relations
- The Task Force for Member Care (MemCa): It is under the auspices of the Mission Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF)
- LinkCare Center: A support agency that offers counseling and other services to missionaries
ALONGSIDE Inc: A counseling center for Christian workers - U. S. Government Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Interaction International: To provide and contribute to the ongoing flow of care that meets the needs of third-culture kids and international mobile families.
- MarriagePartnership.com: A service of Christianity Today
- Books on missionary adjustment
- Psychology of Missionary Adjustment by Merge Jones.
- Raising Resistant MK's by Joyce Bowers (Editor)
- Re-entry: Making the Transition from Missions to Life at Home by Peter Jones.
- These are available from William Carey Library
- Education of one's missionary children
- Children's Education and Resource Center of the IMB.
- a. Home schooling
- Christian home school forum
- b. Association of missionary schools
- Association of Christian Schools International
- Education for ministry work
- World Christian Foundations program: 1539 E. Howard St., Pasadena, CA 91104
- Phone: (626) 398-2106. E-mail: wcf@uscwm.org
- Publications
- International Journal of Frontier Missions
- Mission Frontiers
EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly)
- Mission Network News On-Line
- Issues of money - with the people one is working with
- a. Dependency
- Articles from Mission Frontiers concerning dependency
- World Mission Associates, Dependency among Mission-Established Institutions
- Glen Schwartz Phone: 1-800-30-5265. E-mail wmausa@msn.com. Web: www.wmausa.org
- Articles from Mission Frontiers concerning dependency
- b. Micro businesses/loans - Micro-enterprise
- World Vision Inc. Phone: 253-815-1000. Fax: 253-815-3343
- arms International Inc. Phone: 218-834-2676
- Music - Sources of music that emphasize missions
- Ethnomusicology - music relevant to the culture. worship-arts-network
- Ethnomusicology - music relevant to the culture. worship-arts-network
- Assistance in acquiring resources and supplies for the mission
- Businesses that serve in missions. http://www.christianmissions.net/biz/index.html
- Businesses that serve in missions. http://www.christianmissions.net/biz/index.html
- Sources of humanitarian aid for times of disaster
- World Vision Inc. Phone: 253-815-1000. Fax: 253-815-3343
- Food for Hungry
- Medical Ambassadors International
