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EMQ Volume 58 Issue 2Kurtis Amundson

EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly)

April–June 2022 | Volume 58 Issue 2

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Editorial

Member Care: Loving Those We’ve Sent

Member Care: Loving Those We’ve Sent

By Heather Pubols | How can organizations and churches adequately care for a globally based workforce? Around 30 men and women from more than 10 nations collaborated to write about a wide range of member care topics.

Articles

Towards a Whole-Bible Theological Framework for Staff Care and Wellbeing

Towards a Whole-Bible Theological Framework for Staff Care and Wellbeing

By Rosie Button | A comprehensive, or systematic theological approach is needed for staff care and wellbeing (otherwise known as member care).
The Local Church is the Foundation of Member Care

The Local Church is the Foundation of Member Care

By Jeremy and Anastasia Thomas with Mary Tindall | Many missionaries long for their home churches to offer more support, embracing a larger role in member care.
Beyond ‘Paying and Praying:’ Engaging the Church in Member Care

Beyond ‘Paying and Praying:’ Engaging the Church in Member Care

By Rene Rossouw | Many churches love to boast about their missionaries and their involvement in the nations, while they are actually neglecting the saints serving on their behalf.
Growing Your Church’s Capacity for Meaningful Member Care

Growing Your Church’s Capacity for Meaningful Member Care

By Ivan Liew | Building a church’s ability to provide member care to future and existing missionaries involves charting both organizational culture and policy.
Oikos Care: Caring for Our Missionaries by Caring Through Our Missionaries

Oikos Care: Caring for Our Missionaries by Caring Through Our Missionaries

By Pam Arlund, Mary Ho, and Peggy Spiers | What would member care look like if we, as senders and member care givers, see beyond the surface needs of our missionaries to care more holistically for them?
Best Practices for Church-Based Missionary Care

Best Practices for Church-Based Missionary Care

By Lori Rogers and David Wilson | Today, missionaries have unprecedented access to communications tools. And yet, missionaries experience more disconnect from their sending churches than ever before.
Building Team Love

Building Team Love

By Michel Hendricks | We would all agree that if missionaries loved each other well, many problems would either disappear or be resolved in healthy ways. The real question becomes: How do we learn to love like Jesus loves?
Supporting Today’s Global Workers Toward Missional Resilience

Supporting Today’s Global Workers Toward Missional Resilience

By Geoff and Kristina Whiteman | Global workers are also questioning their calling and leaving the field or switching organizations. Now is the time to intentionally foster resilience.
How to Make a Successful Missionary

How to Make a Successful Missionary

By Curtis McGown | I want to share with you what we have found to help you succeed whether you are the global worker, sending organization, sending church, or partner.
Do Your Members Really Want to Work for You?

Do Your Members Really Want to Work for You?

By Wendi Dykes McGehee | Mission leaders can work to set a tone that creates a working culture that inspires affective commitment to their organization.
Fostering Sexual Wholeness: Breaking Silence to Defeat Shame

Fostering Sexual Wholeness: Breaking Silence to Defeat Shame

By Dennis Martin | As missionaries, the fear of consequences for sexual brokenness, often labeled as moral failure, makes it unthinkable to ask for help.
Building and Leading Culturally Diverse Teams

Building and Leading Culturally Diverse Teams

By Galen Burkholder and Tefera Bekere | Here are four keys to building and leading a strong culturally diverse team to accomplish the Great Commission.
Towards Contextualization of Member Care

Towards Contextualization of Member Care

By Sampson Dorkunor | Care for the Lord’s workers is a challenge for missionary leaders around the world. Yet worker’s needs are different depending on the cultural context of each missionary.
Member Care from an Asian Perspective

Member Care from an Asian Perspective

By Belinda Ng | The specific and unique needs of workers in the Asian context continue to be challenging in the changing landscape of missions.
Missionary Care from a Latin American Perspective

Missionary Care from a Latin American Perspective

By Paulo Feniman | Missionary care (or member care) is frequently viewed in western cultures in the context of supervision. Whereas in Latin cultures, care is focused on the pastoral.
From Ministry Call to Home Call: The State of Member Care in India

From Ministry Call to Home Call: The State of Member Care in India

By Isac Soundararaja | In India the challenges and the unmet needs of over 60,000 Christian workers and their children are unique and need to be addressed holistically.
Safe Harbor: The Role of Hospitality in Member Care

Safe Harbor: The Role of Hospitality in Member Care

By Celeste Allen | When workers are overwhelmed and tired, they need someplace to get away and catch their breath. They need hospitality.
Missionary Conflict: Destructive or Constructive?

Missionary Conflict: Destructive or Constructive?

By David R. Dunaetz | Missionary conflict is inevitable and potentially dangerous if mismanaged. When workers seek to understand each other, creative solutions can be found.
Spiritual Miscarriage: The Death of a Vision

Spiritual Miscarriage: The Death of a Vision

By Brenda Bosch | Spiritual miscarriage occurs when a vision in your spirit that leads to much preparation and passion, does not materialize. It withers without ever flowering.
A Guide for Member Care Engagement

A Guide for Member Care Engagement

By Harry Hoffman | There are four different member care roles: the member care beginner, member care provider, member care facilitator, and member care trainer.

Web Exclusives

Member Care Toolbox Maintenance Strategies: Five Questions

Member Care Toolbox Maintenance Strategies: Five Questions

By Brent Lindquist and Larrie Gardner | Regular maintenance should be performed on the ways organizations provide member care and the resources they utilize for member care. Here are five questions to guide your review.
Member Care in Nigerian Missions

Member Care in Nigerian Missions

By Adegbite Olanihun | As the Nigerian Church wakes up to her global missions responsibility, addressing member care issues becomes more critical, and the Church is responding.
Crisis Planning and Response

Crisis Planning and Response

By Anna E. Hampton | Crises are an unavoidable part of global missions, yet their affects are not. Impact is dependent on our preparation and response.

Book Reviews

Rise of French Laïcité: French Secularism from the Reformation to the Twenty-first Century.

Rise of French Laïcité: French Secularism from the Reformation to the Twenty-first Century.

Peoples on the Move: Community Research for Ministry and Missions

Peoples on the Move: Community Research for Ministry and Missions

Understanding Faith Formation: Theological, Congregational, and Global Dimensions 

Understanding Faith Formation: Theological, Congregational, and Global Dimensions 

Knowing God to Make Him Known: Living Out the Attributes of God Cross-culturally.

Knowing God to Make Him Known: Living Out the Attributes of God Cross-culturally.

Attempt Great Things for God: Theological Education in Diaspora

Attempt Great Things for God: Theological Education in Diaspora

The Innovative Church: How Leaders and Their Congregations Can Adapt in an Ever-Changing World

The Innovative Church: How Leaders and Their Congregations Can Adapt in an Ever-Changing World

Institutional Intelligence: How to Build an Effective Organization

Institutional Intelligence: How to Build an Effective Organization

Empower: The 4 Keys to Leading a Volunteer Movement

Empower: The 4 Keys to Leading a Volunteer Movement

We Evangelicals and Our Mission

We Evangelicals and Our Mission

2020s Foresight: Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerating Change

2020s Foresight: Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerating Change

Advanced Missiology: How to Study Missions in Credible and Useful Ways

Advanced Missiology: How to Study Missions in Credible and Useful Ways

All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health

All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health

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