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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 recent diagnosis of FSHD—Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy makes mental health a constant challenge. In this book, I share how therapy, spirituality, family, friends and Scripture help ...

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 ...

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 ...