Re-entry: Making the Transition from Missions to Life at HomeYWAM Publishing, 1992 - 150 pages Essential teaching for every short- and long-term outreach participant & every church and mission agency that sends them. Peter Jordan's vital, insightful teaching on the challenges and opportunities that await returning missionaries makes this essential reading for everyone involved in missions. A missions "must-read"!"I'm really excited about this book and thank God for its important and vital message. It is thirty years overdue! Short-term missions without this emphasis and teaching can easily end up as a tragedy instead of a triumph."- George Verwer, International Dir., Operation Mobilization "Having counseled with hundreds of returning missionaries, Peter & Donna know from experience the re-entry challenges and opportunities that await missionaries worldwide. They have much to say on this vital subject of re-entry... and the authority to say it."- Loren Cunningham, Founder and President, Youth With a Mission Pages: 156 (paperback) |
Contents
1The Downwind | 25 |
2Checklist | 41 |
3Winding Down | 57 |
4Final Approach | 71 |
5Back to Your Church | 81 |
6Horror Stories | 101 |
7Families and ReEntry | 113 |
8A Return on Gods Investment | 125 |
Before You Go into MissionsA Checklist | 139 |
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