So You Want to Be a Missionary?: Essential Considerations

Missionary life is a rich experience and calling. So You Want to Be a Missionary? Essential Considerations, is the result of decades of missionary service in Africa and to missionaries. The book offers essential considerations from choosing your field of service, entering your field of service, raising children on the field, managing conflict, understanding cultures, language acquisition, and re-entry, returning home to one'spassport country. There's life-changing missionary topics covered in the book. Helpful exercises at the end of most chapters will help the reader process insights and challenges offered. So You Want to Be a Missionary? Essential Considerations seeks to better equip missionaries for the rigors and challenges workers find themselves unprepared to face during their tenures on the field.

Don served with his wife Kathy for twenty-two years as missionaries in South Africa. He pastored two churches in Minnesota. Don currently serves in Member Care with Baptist Bible Fellowship to missionaries around the world. He holds an MDiv and DMin from Luther Rice University, is a trained life coach, and carries several certifications in Fire/EMS/Police Chaplaincy, Critical Incident Stress Management, Depression Recovery and Line of Duty Death.