Long-Term Missionary Care
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Long-Term Missionary Care
How Can the Sending Church and Organization Work Together in Missionary Care?
A Practical Way to Structure Your Church’s Missionary Care
Serving Sent Ones in Hard Places
Sending Does Not Mean Letting Go
Post-Field Care: Plan, Presence, and Pathways to Reengagement
On-Field Care: Prayer Is Not Just the Means to Do the Work—It Is the Work
Pre-Field Care: The Oft-Forgotten Element of Missionary Care
Connecting with Kids on the Field
Caring for Sent Ones in the First Year
Annual Evaluations With Sent Ones: What They Should and Shouldn’t Be
A Case for Missionaries Taking a Sabbatical
The Five Love Languages of Missionary Care
Upcoming Upstream Book: Holding the Rope
Sending Well: It Takes a Community
10 Things You Should Think About before Planting a Church
Missionary Prayer Is Missionary Care
Helping Sent Ones Work through Culture Shock
The Impact of the Heart Debrief
Supporting Single Missionaries in the Wake of Covid