Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Google Jackets
Image from OpenLibrary

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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Encountering missionPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, ©2008. Description: xxi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801026591 (pbk.)
  • 0801026598 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV2061 .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.
Item type: Book
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction BV2061 .S75 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 064627
Total holds: 0
Browsing Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) shelves, Shelving location: General Circulation, Collection: Non-fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
Share