
Missionary Care
Giving missionaries space to be honest and receive the care they need to create ministry longevity and for them to experience gospel renewal.
The life of a missionary is one that is filled with unique stressors. These stressors are compounded by the fear of being honest about them.
Missions is not easy. We would be the first to tell you that! In addition to the normal difficulties of ministry, missionaries also experience things such as team conflict, visa issues, threats of death, political turmoil, language learning and re-learning, sickness and poor medical systems, providing education for their children, raising and maintaining support, helping their kids navigate the challenges of being a third culture kid, evacuations, culture shock, and so forth.
It also well documented that those who serve on the field experience higher levels of stress and encounter a higher number of traumatic events.
The pressures missionaries face is enormous but, unfortunately, many suffer in silence and feel they have to edit themselves.
We desire to give them a space to be honest and receive the care they need. We want missionaries to find an identity as a son or daughter of God first and as a missionary second. We want to come alongside each one of our missionaries, personally and proactively with the tangible support they need—so they can focus on the work God has called them to do.
We offer:
Counseling
Debriefing
Crisis and Trauma Interventions
Conflict Resolution
Re-entry Care
Field Visits
Training

“It is possible that Christians may remain lonely in spite of daily worship together, prayer together, and all their community through service—that the final breakthrough to community does not occur precisely because they enjoy community with one another as pious believers, but not with one another as those lacking piety, as sinners. For the pious community permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners!”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer