Special Resources

TCKlife is a resource based website for Third Culture Kids, parents and those working with TCKs.

Barnabas International is committed to providing encouragement to God's global servants through...

• Going: We travel to the fields of service to provide an "on sight" ministry of presence.

• Listening: We ask questions, taking time to listen to the servant's story.

• Speaking: We minister the Word of God through preaching and teaching as pastoral care providers.

• Giving: We believe that encouragement is fundamentally a gift of grace.

The Budapest Care Center is committed to reducing the number of Christian workers that return to their home country due to preventable problems, increase the effectiveness of Christian workers that are now only marginally effective, and strengthen leaders exhausted and overwhelmed from living in a foreign culture. We work to train others to ensure that the work we carry out will be duplicated by national pastors and leaders within other Christian service organizations.

The Global Member Care Network is a representative, well-connected global member care network that identifies and addresses global member care needs and facilitates the development, coordination and delivery of resources. The desire is to utilize member care networks and connections in the most synergistic ways, in order to effectively serve and facilitate member care to the Mission Movements around the world, on the whole range between an organizational executive level to the individual missionary.

Member Care Associates Global Portal for Good Practice

Member Caravan This site offers materials to support those who are interested/involved in member care and international work in the health care fields. It is especially oriented towards graduate students and others receiving/offering training in member care-related areas. We encourage people to form special groups to "travel together " for mutual support and growth.

Link Care facebook page
 
Global Vault - Great site for Member Care resources for missionaries

Core Member Care Reflections and Resources for Good Pracrtice

YWAM Knowledge Base - Pastoral Care

Member Care Europe is committed to working together on behalf of the missions’ cross-cultural Christian community by helping to provide and develop member care resources within/from Europe. It is a network of national associations and networks who are committed to working together within the European context.

Link Care Center is more than just an address in Fresno, California! We are a group of people made up of Staff, Board, and supporters who are concerned about helping those who come for care and training achieve effectiveness in their living, witnessing, and working. We come from counseling, pastoral, administrative, and business professions, as well as over 10 historic, evangelically based denominational affiliations.

Mobile Member Care Team (MMCT) is a non-profit organization providing training, consultation, counseling, and crisis response for missionaries on the field. We exist to strengthen the mission community in West Africa for healthy, loving service in the midst of challenge, change, and crisis.

Heartstream Resources Heartstream Resources was formed in 1992 by a group of professionals who have worked in the care of cross-cultural workers for about three decades. They are multi-disciplinary, including medicine, psychology, pastoral care, personnel, candidate selection and training, administration and leadership training. They teach at the graduate level in leadership and cross-cultural training.

Mission Training International (MTI) MTI's passion is to see cross-cultural messengers of God’s grace and their families experience effectiveness, longevity and a deep sense of satisfaction in their calling. For this reason, MTI provides character development training and debriefing on the issues that are very practical and highly relevant to thriving in missions. MTI believes that in order for training to be effective and long-lasting that it must be memorable, address character development and include the whole family. For this reason our program philosophy is uniquely community enhanced, family-friendly and strongly experiential – focusing on the heart issues that make or break those in missions.

InTransit is an institution for psychological help and services to expatriates and their sending agencies. InTransit, which was founded in 1995 as ITMP, combines psychological and crosscultural experience and knowledge. Specialised psychologists integrate their own foreign experiences in their work. Expatriates are guided and supported in their transition process and adjustment to a new culture.

Barnabas Zentrum is especially designed to strengthen the lives of Christian workers who are serving in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. While not being a facility to treat mental illness per se, the facility serves as an interdenominational personal and marital retreat center for pastors, missionaries and others in church and Para church staff positions. Without the confining elements of the clinical setting, the relaxed atmosphere of Barnabas Zentrum provides a place of solitude and confidentiality in which such issues as marital crisis, stress, burnout, staff/team relations, and interpersonal or vocational conflicts may be worked through. Therefore, the Barnabas program functions as a preventative for chronic problems whose occurrence would require long-term treatment. Barnabas Zentrum is strongly committed to the importance of maintaining the strength and stability of Christian workers and their families in order that they may more effectively minister to others.

Le Rucher Ministries are actively seeking to integrate member care, community development and ethnic reconciliation for mutual support and greater effectiveness.LeRucher Ministries are committed to developing and providing resources on behalf of personnel in frontier/community development settings. We focus on those living and working with the least evangelized, highly traumatized, least developed, and/or complex humanitarian emergencies. As part of the discipleship process, we are committed to developing competencies and character in people to enable them to respond to suffering and poverty and to lift human dignity in their communities. LeRucher Ministries is a community of colleagues where the presence and peace of Jesus is practiced and experienced. We endeavor to be a visible and viable ministry that can offer a broad range of resources to the mission community.

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Online Articles

Links to websites and downloadable articles/books

Missionary Care - has developed a series of brochures, a database, and eight e-books: four on re-entry, one titled What Missionaries Ought to Know (freshly revised and combining the series of brochures of the same name), one on TCKs, one on adolescence, and one on marriage issues. Follow this link for more information on the e-books.

Mobile Member Care Team (MMCT) - is a non-profit organization providing training, consultation, counseling, and crisis response for missionaries on the field. Check out their link on debriefing handouts and other helpful resources.

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International Member Care Resources

www.oscar.org.uk/ – If you're involved or interested in missionary or Christian work overseas, OSCAR, the UK information service for world mission, is your gateway to useful UK related information, advice and resources. 

www.singlevisioninternational.com - “Single Vision” is a  Member Care renewal retreat that focuses on ministering to the multi-national missions community to enhance spiritual growth, cross-cultural integration skills, emotional health, physical exercise and personal connection with others.

www.missionarycare.com - Dr. Ron Koteskey is a Member Care Consultant for GO InterNational. Ron and his wife, Bonnie have developed a series of brochures, a database, and eight e-books: four on re-entry, one titled What Missionaries Ought to Know (freshly revised and combining the series of brochures of the same name), one on TCKs, one on adolescence, and one on marriage issues. Follow this link for more information on the e-books.

www.membercareradio.com - Utilizing media resources to encourage and enhance expatriate Christian workers, to better enable them to fulfill the Great Commission – this online “radio station” has daily recordings and archives on subjects ranging from emotional health to TCK and culture shock!

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Books

Many of these books are available through www.mti.org/books_membercare.htm

"Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and Practises from around the World" by Kelly O’Donnell, William Carey Library.

"Missionary Care: Counting the Cost for World Evangelisation" by Kelly O'Donnell, Willilam Carey Library.

"Too Valuable to Lose - Exploring the Causes and Cures of Missionary Attrition" - by William D. Taylor, World Evangelical Fellowship.

"Enhancing Missionary Vitality" - by John R. Powell and Joyce M. Bowers

"Pastoral Manual" - by Barry Austin - YWAM Leadership Development Course - a great downloadable manual.

"Building Strong Workplaces" - by Barry Austin - YWAM Leadership Development Course - a great downloadable resource.

"Resources for Small Groups & Team Building" - by Barry Austin & Stephe Mayer - YWAM Leadership Development Course - link to the booklet.

"Honourably Wounded - Stress Among Christian Workers" - by Marjory F. Foyle

"The Reentry Team - Caring for Your Returning Missionaries" - by Neal Pirolo

"On Being a Missionary" by Thomas Hale, Jnr., William Carey Library. A great member care book from the perspective of the missionary themselves rather than the member care person.

"Leadership Coaching" by Tony Stoltzfus , Booksurge Llc.

"Strategic Pastoral Counselling" by David Benner, Baker Academic.  

"Families in Ministry – How To Thrive, Not Just Survive" - by Andreas and Angela Fresz, YWAM Publishing. Available through www.ywampublishing.org.

"Global Member Care: The Pearls and Perils of Good Practice" by Kelly O'Donnell is now available. This book is Volume One of the new Global Member Care series. You can order it directly from the publisher for substantial savings: William Carey Library. For more information about the book, including endorsements, summary, and contents, visit the special web site for the Global Member Care series at: MCA Global

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