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Manual for today's missionary : from recruitment to retirement / Marjorie A. Collins.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Missionary candidate aid seriesPublisher: Pasadena, California : W. Carey Library, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986Description: x, 390 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0878082042
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 266.0023 Collins
Contents:
Section I: Entering the race: preparation -- 1. Considering the mission field -- 2. Facing the challenge -- 3. The changing missionary image -- 4. Personal considerations -- 5. Preparation for service following acceptance -- 6. Continuing education and life-long learning -- 7. Developing financial and prayer support -- 8. Preparing for and presenting your meetings -- 9. Form letters -- 10. Prayer cards -- 11. Preparing a display -- 12. Outfit and equipment -- 13. Financial matters -- 14. Medical, dental, and legal matters -- 15. Ordination, dedicationg and/or commissioning service -- 16. Relationships to your mission board, your home church, and your other supporters -- 17. Home missionaries and workers in mission offices -- 18. Short term and summer workers -- 19. Women and missions -- 20. The single candidate -- 21. Marriage and the mission field -- 22. Children of accepted candidates -- 23. Bon voyage.
50. Prayer cards -- 51. Legal, medical and dental matters -- 52. Records, reports and financial affairs -- 53. Seeking new workers -- 54. Additional studies -- 55. Return outfit allowance and purchases -- 56. Packing and shipping -- 57. Extended furlough and leave of absence -- 58. Changing missions duirng furlough -- 59. Suppose your field closes during furlough -- 60. Resignation -- 61. Return to the field -- Section IV: Finishing the race: retirement -- 62. Thinking ahead to retirement.
Section III: Continuing the race: furlough -- 35. Reasons for and length of a furlough -- 36. Preparations from the field -- 37. Furlough housing -- 38. Reverse culture shock -- 39. Rest and rehabilitation -- 40. Ask yourself some questions -- 41. Living within your budget -- 42. Speaking engagements -- 43. Using slides and movies in your meetings -- 44. Use of other audio-visual aids -- 45. Question and answer sessions -- 46. Missionary conferences -- 47. Honesty in presentations -- 48. Courtesy and gratitude -- 49. Communication with the field.
Section II: Running the race: field experience -- 24. Arrival at last! -- 25. Language study -- 26. Spiritual food / worship -- 27. The work of the ministry -- 28. A wife's involvement in missionary work -- 29. Cross-cultural communications and relationships with nationals -- 30. Schooling for missionary children -- 31. Servants -- 32. Medical concerns -- 33. Rest and recreation -- 34. Loneliness and loss.
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Bibliography: pages 378-390.

Section I: Entering the race: preparation -- 1. Considering the mission field -- 2. Facing the challenge -- 3. The changing missionary image -- 4. Personal considerations -- 5. Preparation for service following acceptance -- 6. Continuing education and life-long learning -- 7. Developing financial and prayer support -- 8. Preparing for and presenting your meetings -- 9. Form letters -- 10. Prayer cards -- 11. Preparing a display -- 12. Outfit and equipment -- 13. Financial matters -- 14. Medical, dental, and legal matters -- 15. Ordination, dedicationg and/or commissioning service -- 16. Relationships to your mission board, your home church, and your other supporters -- 17. Home missionaries and workers in mission offices -- 18. Short term and summer workers -- 19. Women and missions -- 20. The single candidate -- 21. Marriage and the mission field -- 22. Children of accepted candidates -- 23. Bon voyage.

50. Prayer cards -- 51. Legal, medical and dental matters -- 52. Records, reports and financial affairs -- 53. Seeking new workers -- 54. Additional studies -- 55. Return outfit allowance and purchases -- 56. Packing and shipping -- 57. Extended furlough and leave of absence -- 58. Changing missions duirng furlough -- 59. Suppose your field closes during furlough -- 60. Resignation -- 61. Return to the field -- Section IV: Finishing the race: retirement -- 62. Thinking ahead to retirement.

Section III: Continuing the race: furlough -- 35. Reasons for and length of a furlough -- 36. Preparations from the field -- 37. Furlough housing -- 38. Reverse culture shock -- 39. Rest and rehabilitation -- 40. Ask yourself some questions -- 41. Living within your budget -- 42. Speaking engagements -- 43. Using slides and movies in your meetings -- 44. Use of other audio-visual aids -- 45. Question and answer sessions -- 46. Missionary conferences -- 47. Honesty in presentations -- 48. Courtesy and gratitude -- 49. Communication with the field.

Section II: Running the race: field experience -- 24. Arrival at last! -- 25. Language study -- 26. Spiritual food / worship -- 27. The work of the ministry -- 28. A wife's involvement in missionary work -- 29. Cross-cultural communications and relationships with nationals -- 30. Schooling for missionary children -- 31. Servants -- 32. Medical concerns -- 33. Rest and recreation -- 34. Loneliness and loss.

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