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Mindful of the growing range of issues and challenges confronting God’s workers in the Muslim world, Frontiers’ Member Care  staff is presenting its 2010 Member Care Symposium next spring in Phoenix, AZ.

With God’s blessing, this event will recognize and add value to the partnership that exists between Frontiers and sending churches.

You can count on a dynamic, interactive, sharing event … not just lectures.

Symposium Objectives

You and Frontiers share a vision of longevity and vitality for our precious field workers. The 2010 Member Care Symposium has been developed and will be presented to nurture and advance this vision through the following:

    * Nourishing partnerships between Frontiers and its sending churches
    * Better equipping sending churches for member care
    * Highlighting and sharing Frontiers’ distinctive member care “know-how”

Program - Summary

Choose from a number of multi-session tracks, designed to expand your awareness of Member Care and to enhance your Member Care skills.

PLENARY/GENERAL SESSIONS FOR ALL ATTENDEES
   Pastoral Coaching on Field Visits
   Christ in Muslims:  The Hope of Glory
   A Sending Church’s Vision and Practice of Member Care
   Life in Hard Places:  What Hurts? What Helps?
   Current Trends in the Church’s Mission to Muslim Peoples

PRACTICAL SKILL EQUIPPING PROGRAMS
   Pastoral Coaching
   Serving as Senders
   Healing Conflicts through Biblical Peacemaking
   Helping Field Workers Grow More Like Jesus
   Crisis Response Strategies

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
   Getting Family Ready – Caring for Field Worker Families
   Thriving on Teams – Personal Uniqueness
   Re-Entry and Debriefing – Deep and Wide Listening
   Kids in Focus – Understanding Third Culture Kids
   Healthy Sexuality – Fostering Wholeness
   Marriage under Fire – Building Hearts Together
   Good Grief – Processing Loss on the Field

More information about the program

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

As plans for the 2010 Member Care Symposium take shape, we are hoping, praying and expecting a level of participation and input from other senders that will cause those you’ve sent to rise up and call themselves blessed.

Block out the time now to join us in Phoenix next April 19-23!
frontiers.org/2010-member-care-symposium

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info(at)OneAnother.com

... We offer professional services to mission agencies, missionaries, churches and national church leaders in Europe and the surrounding regions.

... We do this through workshops and personal coaching.

Missionary Debriefing
Debriefing is a process of guided reflection of one’s experiences, focusing on the impact of those experiences as it relates to inner matters of the heart, and how God has been at work in these experiences. Effective debriefing allows one to process the past and the present for the purpose of moving into the future with a greater degree of effectiveness.

Because we are trained facilitators not affiliated with the mission agency, sending church, or ministry organization, Christian workers perceive us to be safe because we protect their confidentiality. We conduct debriefing sessions at our office, your office, or missionary conferences.

Personal Growth Conferences for Missionaries
Please click here here for details on this unique growth opportunity for missionaries. We conduct these at the retreat facility we use, or at your site.

Counseling
In addition to providing preventative care, we also offer restorative and problem solving care through our pastoral counseling services. This can be done at our office or yours, or at conferences you hold.

Missionary Care from Churches
The church plays a vital role in caring for missionaries and our goal is to serve as a resource in this important area. We do this through workshops, speaking to various church ministries, pulpit supply, coaching, and consultation. We also help missionaries in improving their relationships with their supporting churches.

Speaking
We are available to speak at conferences and workshops on many topics related to member/missionary care.

Missionary Marriages Seminar
We teach relational skills from a variety of sources to enhance missionary marriages. We come to your facility or conference for this training. All our seminar facilitators are certified Christian PAIRS instructors.

Strategic Planning
Would you occasionally like someone from the outside to bounce around ideas with concerning member care? When you are looking for guidance and suggestions to improve the care you provide your missionaries we are here to help.

It can be helpful to talk with someone from outside your organization in considering questions such as How do we organize our member care function? Who will be the people providing the care? What levels of care can and should we offer? How do we get supporting churches involved? Issues like these and many others are concerns we can help you think through

Why We Do What We Do

William D. Taylor writes in his classic book, Too Valuable to Lose – Exploring the Causes and Cures of Missionary Attrition, that over 5,400 missionaries leave the mission field every year for what he calls "preventable reasons." We help prevent the preventable through the member care services and programs we offer.

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We are blessed to offer your MKs and families the following dates
and venues:

a. Biola University: July 11 - 23

b. Seattle Pacific University: July 18 - 30

c. Cedarville University: July 18-30

These transition seminars are designed for graduating seniors who have lived
overseas and are transitioning back to North America to either attend
college or work. Information for these seminars can be found at
http://barnabas.org/reentry/who.php. Here you can find out things like,
"Who it is for?"; "What's it all about?"; "When & Where?"; "How much does
it cost?" and also how to SIGN UP! Information about our new online
registration sign up process can be found at this link:
http://barnabas.org/reentry/signup.php. Space is limited.so if you want any
of your high school seniors to attend.they need to register ASAP.as spaces
will fill out quickly.

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The
planning committee is working hard on the conference and will be getting
more information out to you all soon.but they wanted me to pass on the
dates, so you'll mark your calendars. Donna Messenger will be your contact
person. Donna is a member of Barnabas International, she is on the planning
team and will be coordinating the registration information. Donna will be
in touch with you all soon, but if you have questions about the MKCC 2010,
please feel free to contact Donna at messengerd@barnabas.org. I've copied
Donna on this message as well. Please feel free to share this information
with others in the MK care ministry. So mark your calendars...we'd love to
see you there this year!

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It is a global listing of professional mental health therapists who are familiar with the TCK and international expatriate experience.

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 They offer a pre-field education planning seminar and a transitions seminar for TCK’s going back to their passport country, as well as many other services, seminars, and resources.

 

Link:     http://www.tckinteract.net/

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We are a non-profit counseling service offering mental health services to Christian workers living in Europe, Russia and Central Asia.  Our primary work is short-term intensive counseling for adults and couples seeking help for themselves.  Depression, trauma, anxiety, marriage conflict and burnout are among the more common concerns that bring people to the Care Center seeking help.  The Care Center staff also provides training on understanding how personal and family problems develop, training on how to help others and seminars on marriage and family relationships.  Services and training are provided in English and Hungarian and are offered free of charge.  

... Papers and books can be downloaded free, including a manual on ?psychological first aid?.

... Ehrenreich (2001) entitled ?Coping with disaster: Aguidebook to psychosocial intervention?. (In Spanish or English). This sitealso contains a useful bibliography of resources on managing stress inhumanitarian, health care, and human rights workers.

 

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charge.  Nine books on a variety of topics are available to download as
Word or PDF documents.  More than 60 brochures in three series, including
one on missionary marriage issues, are also available free of charge for
viewing or downloading.  Finally, you can search a database of more than
850 published articles, chapters, and books about member care.  This
database can be searched on-line for references relevant to more than 100
topics, or you can download the database and do your own search.