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Encountering missionary life and work : preparing for intercultural ministry / Tom Steffen and Lois McKinney Douglas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Encountering missionPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, [2008]Copyright date: â„—â™­2008Description: xxi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801026591
  • 0801026598
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 266 STE
LOC classification:
  • BV2061.3 .S75 2008
  • BV2061.3 .S75 2008
Contents:
The changing scene -- Remembering the past -- Understanding key ideas and terms -- Home-front preparations -- Decision making and the will of God -- Spiritual formation -- Personal readiness -- Ministry readiness -- Avenues to cross-cultural ministries -- Finding your niche -- Getting going -- On-field preparations -- What is culture? -- At home in the culture -- Culture and language acquisition -- Missionaries and their lives -- Women in missions -- Missionary families -- Crises in missions -- Reentry -- What's next?
Summary: This new volume in the award-winning Encountering Mission series is for current and future missionaries. It provides practical guidance regarding getting ready for the mission field and the realities of life on the field. The authors are well qualified to write such a manual, each having served as a missionary for more than twenty years and each having taught missions in seminary.
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Books GRACE BIBLE COLLEGE Ministry & Mission 266 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available 015364

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-378) and indexes.

The changing scene -- Remembering the past -- Understanding key ideas and terms -- Home-front preparations -- Decision making and the will of God -- Spiritual formation -- Personal readiness -- Ministry readiness -- Avenues to cross-cultural ministries -- Finding your niche -- Getting going -- On-field preparations -- What is culture? -- At home in the culture -- Culture and language acquisition -- Missionaries and their lives -- Women in missions -- Missionary families -- Crises in missions -- Reentry -- What's next?

This new volume in the award-winning Encountering Mission series is for current and future missionaries. It provides practical guidance regarding getting ready for the mission field and the realities of life on the field. The authors are well qualified to write such a manual, each having served as a missionary for more than twenty years and each having taught missions in seminary.

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