So You Want to Be a Missionary?

Essential Considerations

Missionary life is rich in experience and calling. So You Want to Be a Missionary?: Essential Considerations is a result of the author’s decades of missionary service in Africa and to missionaries.

The book offers essential considerations of every phase of missionary life. From the very first steps towards missionary service to the retiring missionary, heartfelt information unfolds, offering encouragement, reflection, and challenge. This book covers several life-changing topics, including choosing your field of service, making your first entry into the country, raising children on the field, managing conflict, understanding cultures, the importance of language acquisition, and how to leave the field and return home well.

So You Want to Be a Missionary?: Essential Considerations seeks to better equip missionaries for the rigors and challenges many missionaries 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 through the Baptist Bible Fellowship for missionaries around the world. He holds an MDiv and DMin from Luther Rice University, a PhD in Christian Counseling from Louisiana Baptist University, and is a trained life coach; additionally, he has several certifications in Fire/EMS/Police Chaplaincy, Critical Incident Stress Management, Depression Recovery, and Line of Duty Death.

The book is fantastic. The audiobook is awful

for the love of all that is good in this world please change where he says underscore to just have him say the word (blank). it really does feel like you people just chucked it into an AI algorithm and didn't even bother giving it a listen. OH WAIT, that's exactly what you did...