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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. Choosing your field of service, first entry into the country, raising children on the field, managing conflict, understanding cultures, the importance of ...

Slaying the Dragon Within is a Discipleship approach to help Christians get out of porn. The book focuses on the dangers facing individuals struggling with porn in the digital world. Here, a clear path is laid out for living above the ruining compulsions often found in digital media viewing. For anyone struggling with sexual hyperstimulation that the dark net offers, this book is for you. Through a five-step process — Boundaries, Accountability, Confession, Knowledge, and Sorrow — B.A.C.K.S.® lies your freedom. BACKS is a spiritual mind-renewing discipleship process to help Christians ...

The Cross-cultural Worker’s Spiritual Survival Guide results from collaborating with dozens of cross-cultural member care workers through the Global Member Care Network. I asked these Missionary Care Providers who serve thousands of missionaries worldwide this one question: “What is the greatest spiritual neglect of missionaries that come to you for help?”The response was overwhelming. This, along with my own years of service as a missionary among the Zulu people in South Africa, and interacting with hundreds of missionaries over the years, led me to write this book.Scattered across ...

In this updated edition - 9/01/2020 - To Hell, Back, and Beyond describes my account of living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. During therapy I developed a personal approach to managing my PTSD – an approach I use every day and believe will be of benefit to others. I transparently share my struggles dealing with years of trauma as a child growing up in Minnesota, and as a missionary living in Africa for over 20 years. How does one coexist cumulative trauma? Understanding and living with PTSD challenged every aspect of my faith and being. My Boundaries, Accountability, Confession, ...

In this 2025 update, A Christian's Mental Health Guide: For Missionaries, Pastors, and Other Christians, Too is my personal mental health guide. I developed it over years of learning to deal with my own mental health. Challenges that arose from abuse during my childhood years, then witnessing horrendous atrocities during a twenty-two-year missionary career in Africa, added to my PTSD struggles. A moderate brain injury and a recent diagnosis of FSHD—Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy makes mental health a constant challenge. In this book, I share how therapy, spirituality, family, ...

A single female missionary suggested, “You know, Don, you should write a book called Behind the Missionary Smile.” She continued, “When missionaries stand before potential supporters, report to current financial contributors, or give reports to mission agencies, family, and friends, they often do so behind a smile that says, 'Everything is wonderful. I’m at the top of my game, and the ministry is going great! All is okay. I’m okay. My ministry is worth your support.’” Yeah, right. Many times, we hide what’s really taking place in our lives behind a smile. So You Want to be a...

Health, fulfillment, and happiness? How does one find it? Perhaps, in a place rarely discussed. Your soul. Yes, your soul. The only part of you that lasts forever. You are your soul. Your soul is you. Talk a walk with me through my own soul journey, and maybe you'll discover your soul too. Raised a Catholic in Minnesota and served as a Baptist Missionary in South Africa for over twenty-years, Don conversed with Hindus, Muslims, and Africans about their soul. The author shares many personal experiences from Africa, particularly among the Zulu people, and the many cultures in Southern Africa....

I believe faith is imprinted upon our souls. Every place I’ve traveled discovered people with faith. Faith in a culture. Faith in a family. Faith in honor. Faith in a deity. Faith in a person. Faith in material surroundings. Faith in a cause. Or, faith that tomorrow will perhaps end better than today. Faith is common. So too, is people’s frustration with it. God perceivably fails you. A friend betrays. A relationship ends. When a person, job or cause lets you down. Faith often carries both hope and despair. The Faith Principle talks about faith’s frustrations when faith doesn’t ...