Middle East MemberCare Conference 2010
Theme: Wounded Healers - Helping workers deal with addictions,  bruised backgrounds, marriage stress, and other.

Critical Incident Stress Management Training in KL, Malaysia.
See attachment for more info

Building Skills for Member Care with Excellence, USA
Jan. 10-14, 2011 (M-F)
Conference Theme: Member Care in the THICK of IT: Responding to Traumatic Situations on the Mission field
Link Care strives to provide training and insight into the difficult situations you face in providing Member Care.  Our focus this year is on two specific areas of difficulty.

The Highlands Ability Battery, Thailand
September 16- September 18, 2010
For more information contact  Dave Wickstrom at dwick328(at)lexcominc.net
and check the attachment.

Africa Member Care Network July 2010 see attachment

To Our Colleagues in Personnel… This monthly “resource tool” is on resources for those living with depressed males

My name is Heidi Sand-Hart and I am a missionary kid who grew up in India, England and Norway.
I have recently written a book about being a missionary kid and it is getting published in America by McDougal Publishing. Ruth E. Van Reken has written a great foreword for the book and it will be released in mid-July.

Conference in the Philippines. See attachment

Where: Payap Univeristy in Chiang Mai, Thailand
When: Monday and Tuesday, November 8-9 – 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Summary:  Most often the conflicts arising in groups are due to the cultural differences.  Once these differences are understood, and ways of adjusting to a different culture are implemented, often the conflicts are resolved.  Sarah Lanier, author of Foreign to Familiar, will facilitate understanding through interactive examples of how to deal with multicultural situations.

Where: Kijkandee Foundation- The Well - Chiang Mai, Thailand
When: Monday through Friday, November 1-5 – 9:00 AM-4:30 PM (Half-day on Friday)
Summary: "Sarah Lanier, author of 'Foreign to Familiar' and Dr. Erik Spruyt, founder and director of Le Rucher Ministries in France, will lead a skills focused basic debriefing workshop for leaders, mental health professionals and seasoned member care workers.  Le Rucher is internationally known for its debriefing of career field workers, with a five day, Christ center model of professionally trained debriefers. Both theory and practical application will be offered, as well as key resources for leaders of agencies and therapists alike.

The following websites are set up by
mission organisations and are aimed at
informing about and involving children in
mission.

MET offer on-the-field encouragement to missionaries through visits and retreats.
They are also involved in helping
missionaries re-evaluate and renew
effective partnership with their mission,
home church and supporters.

The main purpose of EI is to support and
encourage Christian workers across
Europe.  
Website: www.encourage-international.co.uk

A classic among Member Care Articles.
A Guest in Their World by Karen Carr, Mobile Member Care Team
storage.cloversites.com/mmctmobilemembercareteam/documents/A%20Guest%20In%20Their%20World.pdf

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The MMCT COMMUNIQUÉ is a colorful, periodic digest of member care resources and events delivered to your agency or personal e-mail.  Click on the links below to view, print or download past issues. More...

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Past Issues
Transition Resources - June 2007
Crisis Care - September 2007
Counseling Issues - January 2008
Third Culture Kids (TCKs) - May 2008
Cross-Cultural Couples - July 2008 More...

Today’s Voice for Third Culture Kids and Internationally Mobile Families
http://www.interactionintl.org/home.asp
Interaction’s focus is . . More...

A wonderful option for families in the Middle East to take a holiday in the cool mountains of Cyprus this summer.  You need to book soon.  
www.troodoscampsite.org

CHARIS TRAINING will be holding a retreat for full-time workers at Pulai Springs resort, near Johor Baru (Malaysia) 27-30 October 2010.