Encountering Missionary Life and Work
by Steffen, Tom A.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-06-01
Publisher(s): Baker Academic
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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. The authors begin by examining the contemporary context for missions, including the recognition that the world's mission fields are in constant and often rapid change. They then discuss aspects of preparing oneself for the mission field, beginning with home-front preparations and moving to on-the-field preparations. The final section deals with practical issues and challenges of missionary life.
Author Biography
Tom Steffen (DMiss, Biola University) is professor of intercultural studies at Biola University and director of the doctor of missiology program. He served as a missionary for twenty years in Southeast Asia. Lois McKinney Douglas (PhD, Michigan State University) is professor emerita of mission at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She served as a missionary for twenty-three years with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| The Changing Scene | |
| Remembering the Past | p. 3 |
| Understanding Key Ideas and Terms | p. 30 |
| Home-Front Preparations | |
| Decision Making and the Will of God | p. 47 |
| Spiritual Formation | p. 62 |
| Personal Readiness | p. 85 |
| Ministry Readiness | p. 102 |
| Avenues to Cross-Cultural Ministries | p. 122 |
| Finding Your Niche | p. 139 |
| Getting Going | p. 159 |
| On-Field Preparations | |
| What Is Culture? | p. 181 |
| At Home in the Culture | p. 201 |
| Culture and Language Acquisition | p. 224 |
| Missionaries and Their Lives | |
| Women in Missions | p. 253 |
| Missionary Families | p. 276 |
| Crises in Missions | p. 295 |
| Reentry | p. 320 |
| What's Next? | p. 343 |
| Helpful Web Sites | p. 359 |
| Reference List | p. 365 |
| Scripture Index | p. 379 |
| Subject Index | p. 383 |
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