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(Not) Home For the Holidays {The Grove: Letters from Home}

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Are you or a family member out of the states for the holidays? Or even just across the country? Read this article written by Emily Hilkemann about the holidays ...
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30 Years of Connections: Mapping and Missions

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Images capture our imagination. GMI began 30 years ago because of this realization. When GMI started its work, there was limited data about the task of global e...
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5 Lessons Learned While Living on Mission

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This article was taken from Global Frontier Missions and focuses on what missionaries have learned while they are in their place of mission. The article is good...
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Authority

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Spiritual Warfare – the Super and the Natural gives you tools for faithful participation in spiritual battle. This reading is one element from the CIT Next on...
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Brazil: An Emerging Force in Global Mission

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The world is talking about Brazil. Whether it is their economic growth, the socio-economic challenges they are facing or their hosting of events like the World ...
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Bribery and the Bible

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Originally published in 1991 by Campus Crusade Asia Limited in Singapore, this book gives a Biblical perspective on bribery and extortion and applies that persp...
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Charting the Path for Future Global Workers

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Charting the Path for Future Global Workers was originally taken from Send International. Churches and potential missionaries should walk the path together towa...
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Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility

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Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility by Duane Elmer is about how missionaries can go into their new culture and be servants rat...
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Culture’s Color, God’s Light

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We spend a lot of time trying to understand the differences between cultures. But what is the end-game? The more we learn about other cultures, the better we ca...
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Fruitful Practices #5- Build a Good Reputation

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More than any other time in history, we are seeing God move in various regions all across the Muslim world. Research has shown that common threads can be traced...
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Fruitful Practices #7 and #8 – Intentional Reproduction and Courageous Witness

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More than any other time in history, we are seeing God move in various regions all across the Muslim world. Research has shown that common threads can be traced...
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God’s Mission Has an Enemy

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Spiritual Warfare – the Super and the Natural gives you tools for faithful participation in spiritual battle. This article is one element from the CIT Next on...
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Going the Distance: Missionary Retention

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The paradigms around sending a cross-cultural missionary for the long haul are changing dramatically. Now more than ever it is important to understand how to re...
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Honor and Shame: Unlocking the Door

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Honor and Shame: Unlocking the Door by Ronald Mueller is a $5 e-booklet that introduces the differences between guilt, shame and fear-based cultures, along with...
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How to grow missionaries from your congregation(s)

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How to grow missionaries from your congregation(s) by Lois Thorpe, former SEND missionary to Ukraine. This article is good for those looking to send missionarie...
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Identifying Cross-Cultural Gifting

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Identifying Cross-Cultural Gifting - Who is God tapping for missions service?  was originally taken from Send International. God uses specific people for miss...
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Measure Church Missions Potential

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Measure Church Missions Potential was originally taken from Send International. Ten indicators of how ready a church is for global involvement, including whethe...
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Migrant Myths – How Have We Mistaken Our Mission Partners for Mission Objects

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This article was taken from Global Frontier Missions' blog. This article is about myths of migrants and how we can overcome those myths. This article is good fo...
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Missio Nexus EMQ

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The Evangelical Missions Quarterly is the newest resource of Missio Nexus. With this first issue of 2018, it began its 55th year as a professional journal ser...
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Mission Motives

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As you read this brief report, the facts will testify to themselves: God calls and His people respond. With worldly wisdom this simply is difficult to understan...
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Missionaries and Bribes

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Missionaries often face situations in which bribes seem to be expected, and they are confused about to do and may feel guilty whether they pay or not. This book...
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Missionary Marriage Issues: Computer Sex or Me

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Why write a book about issues in missionary marriages when so many books about marriage are available? The reason is because married couples living in cultures ...
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Missionary Marriage Issues: FUNd Raising Isn’t FUN!

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Why write a book about issues in missionary marriages when so many books about marriage are available? The reason is because married couples living in cultures ...
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Missionary Marriage Issues: I’m Just a Trailing Spouse

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Why write a book about issues in missionary marriages when so many books about marriage are available? The reason is because married couples living in cultures ...
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Missionary Marriage Issues: Marriage or Ministry?

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Why write a book about issues in missionary marriages when so many books about marriage are available? The reason is because married couples living in cultures ...
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Missionary Marriage Issues: Not Called, But Willing

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Why write a book about issues in missionary marriages when so many books about marriage are available? The reason is because married couples living in cultures ...
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Missionary Marriage Issues: This is no Honeymoon!

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Why write a book about issues in missionary marriages when so many books about marriage are available? The reason is because married couples living in cultures ...
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Missionary Single Issues: Matchmakers

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These booklets cover those issues which are unique to or heightened by those individuals who live in a culture other than their passport culture. The author wro...
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Missionary Transitions

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Missionaries go through major transitions when they move from their passport cultures to their host cultures and when they return "home." Of course, these trans...
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Muslim Ministry Infographic

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Muslim Ministry Infographic was originally taken from Send International. There are 1.7 billion Muslims in the world. This infographic shows us a little bit of ...
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Principalities and Powers

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Spiritual Warfare – the Super and the Natural gives you tools for faithful participation in spiritual battle. This reading is one element from the CIT Next on...
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Psychology for Missionaries

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Ron taught psychology in Christian colleges for 35 years. In this book he places psychology in a Christian perspective and considers practical implications for ...
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Stewardship of Self for Christian Worker: Stress

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Brochures in this series contain self-help information for missionaries. Each brochure emphasizes practical things missionaries may do for specific problems in ...
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The Olympic Dream and the Human Race

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The Olympics is an amazing opportunity to engage the entire globe in a powerful way. Few other global events have the same impact. Are you looking at the Olympi...
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Understanding Adolescence

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Since the “Adolescence” brochure is the one opened most frequently, Ron has updated his book, Understanding Adolescence, published by Victor Books in 1987....
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What Missionaries Ought to Know About Anger

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but rather what missionaries themselves a...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Debriefing

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but rather what missionaries themselves a...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Depression

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but rather what missionaries themselves a...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Guilt

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but that missionaries themselves asked ab...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Healing of Memories

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but that missionaries themselves asked ab...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Maintaining Mental (and Physical) Health

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but that missionaries themselves asked ab...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Panic Attacks

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but rather what missionaries themselves a...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Re-Entry

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but rather what missionaries themselves a...
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What Missionaries Ought to Know about Saying Goodbye

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What Missionaries Ought to know… does not mean that the author sat down and decided what missionaries ought to know, but rather what missionaries themselves a...
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Won’t this Cause You to Lose Face?

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This article was written by Jackson Wu and focuses on "face" in East Asian cultures. This short article is recommended for anyone who is involved, or is looking...
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What is Participant Observation?

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When immersing yourself into a new culture, the best way to learn about that culture is through participant observation. This resource focuses specifically on h...
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