Missionary families

Missionary families
Author: Emily Manktelow
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526111527

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Missionary families were an integral component of the missionary enterprise, both as active agents on the global religious stage and as a force within the enterprise that shaped understandings and theories of mission itself. Taking the family as a legitimate unit of historical analysis in its own right for the first time, Missionary families traces changing familial policies and lived realities throughout the nineteenth century and powerfully argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the missionary enterprise informed by the complex interplay between the intimate, the personal and the professional. By looking at marriage, parenting and childhood; professionalism, vocation and domesticity; race, gender and generation, this first in-depth study of missionary families reveals their profound importance to the missionary enterprise, and concludes that mission history can no longer be written without attention to the personal, emotional and intimate aspects of missionary lives.

Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity

Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity
Author: John S. Benson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498504868

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Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity is a community history of members of nineteen Lutheran missionary families who served in Tanzania. Based on over ninety interviews and John Benson’s extensive knowledge of cultural geography, he compares the lives of the missionary generation who grew up in the United States and went to Tanzania as missionaries to those of their children who grew up in Africa but settled in the United States as adults. Benson blends his personal experiences as a child of missionaries in Tanzania to tell the story of both generations. Missionary Families is centered on the themes of connection to place and religious development and will appeal to scholars of geography, cultural studies and religion.

Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950

Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950
Author: Hugh Morrison
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2024-03-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526156776

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Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.

The Missionary Family

The Missionary Family
Author: Dwight P. Baker
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0878089349

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The title of this book points to a feature—the missionary family—often considered to be a distinctive of the Protestant missionary movement. Certainly the presence of missionary families in the field has been a central factor in enabling, configuring, and restricting Protestant missionary outreach. What special concerns does sending missionary families raise for the conduct of mission? What means are available for extending care and support to missionary families? These issues are the focus of the chapters in part 1 of this book. In recent years an increasing number of reports have surfaced of sexual abuse in mission settings. Some reports have been based on “recovered memories,” the assessment of which raises difficult questions. Clearly sexual abuse in mission settings and how to understand allegations of abuse based on recovered memories are matters of grave concern to mission agencies and mission supporters as well as to missionary families. Part 2 serves the mission community by scrutinizing such matters, offering legal, historical, and psychological perspectives on the topic. In a new feature, “Forum on Sexual Orientation and Mission: An Evangelical Discussion,” the Evangelical Missiological Society takes up a pressing issue of our day. Fourteen evangelical scholars participate in the discussion found in part 3. Far from being the final word, this forum is presented with the prayer that it will serve as an opening to and basis for ongoing missiological conversation about an urgent and timely topic.

Parents of Missionaries

Parents of Missionaries
Author: Cheryl Savageau
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830859292

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Whether you're the parent of a missionary recruit or a parent of an experienced missionary, this resource will help you thrive and stay connected with your children and grandchildren serving cross-culturally. Combining a counselor's professional insight and a parent's personal journey, the authors help you understand missionary life, grandparent long-distance and say good-bye well.

Missionary Stories with the Millers

Missionary Stories with the Millers
Author: Mildred A. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 205
Release: 1993
Genre: Missionaries
ISBN: 9780962764349

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Experience thrilling adventure as the Christian missionaries on these pages meet witch doctors, disease, drought, hate-filled guerillas, a Bible thief, and killer cats. Each story is based on actual happenings from the lives of real people.

Third Culture Kids 3rd Edition

Third Culture Kids 3rd Edition
Author: Ruth E. Van Reken
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-11-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1857884086

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The absolute authority on Third Culture Kids for nearly two decades! In this 3rd edition of the ground-breaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible." Emphasis is on the modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity and inclusion and transitions. Includes new advice for parents and others for how to support TCKs as they navigate work, relationships, social settings and their own personal development. New to this edition: · A second PolVan Cultural Identity diagram to support understanding of cultural identity · New models for identity formation · Updated explanation of unresolved grief · New material on "highly mobile communities" addressing the needs of people who stay put while a community around them moves rapidly · Revamped Section III so readers can more easily find what is relevant to them as Adult TCKs, parents, counselors, employers, spouses, administrators, etc. · New "stages and needs" tool that will help families and organizations identify and meet needs · Greater emphasis on tools for educators as they grapple with demographic shifts in the classroom

The Mission-Minded Family

The Mission-Minded Family
Author: Ann Dunagan
Publisher: IVP Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008-09-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830857050

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In a mission-minded family, there's a God-infused energy. There's a focus on God's worldwide purpose and there's a passion for the lost. There's a spiritual depth and hunger that reaches beyond the maintenance mode of cultural Christianity. A mission-minded family emphasizes leadership, calling and destiny. There's a prevailing attitude of self-sacrifice and an emphasis on total submission to God's will. There's an unmistakable and contagious joy. Dunagan, who wrote The Mission-Minded Child, brings the same perspective to what it means to be a mission-minded family. This book includes suggested activities for families to participate in together as well as resources to help families develop the desire to be more missions-focused. She discusses the need for families to balance and prioritize their everyday lives and delves into what a family's finances would look like if they were focused on missions. This practical book is the perfect companion to The Mission-Minded Child. Families who read and practice principles from this book will receive a rekindled closeness as they participate in ministry together.

Mission-Minded Families

Mission-Minded Families
Author: Jon & Ann Dunagan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre:
ISBN:

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Get equipped for the Gospel and God's Great Commission as you learn, "God's mission is for your family to expand His family!" This 480-page resource is packed with practical ideas and inspiration for mission-minded parenting, no matter where God has called you to live, for "Missions is not just for missionaries; God's call is for all.". In a mission-minded family, there's a God-infused energy. There's a focus on God's worldwide purpose and there's a passion for the lost. There's a spiritual depth and hunger that reaches beyond the maintenance mode of cultural Christianity. A mission-minded family emphasizes leadership, calling and destiny. There's a prevailing attitude of self-sacrifice, an emphasis on total submission to God's will, and an unmistakable and contagious joy. In this updated two-in-one resource (combining The Mission-Minded Child and The Mission-Minded Family), Christian parents will be encouraged to seek God's potential for their family, and to raise each child to fulfill God's specific mission. PART 1: Discovering the "Why" of world missions, while making disciples at home PART 2: Balancing the "How" of world missions, while prioritizing your family This special edition includes: practical teaching ideas, stories, poems, hymns and excerpts, mini-mission biographies, international holiday ideas, tips for travel and ministry with children, and helpful encouragement from decades of global experience. David Livingstone once said, "This generation can only reach this generation." The Dunagan's ask, "Will we raise our children to effectively reach their generation for Jesus Christ?" Jon & Ann Dunagan founded Harvest Ministry in 1987. They are international mission leaders, convention speakers, and veteran homeschooling parents of seven grown children (born in 1986 to 2000, with an increasing number of graduates, married-in-spouses and grandchildren). Collectively, the Dunagan's and their family have shared the love of Jesus in over 100 nations on every continent, including Antarctica - focused on winning souls, equipping nations, loving orphans, serving churches, and mobilizing Christian families for God's Great Commission. You can find the Dunagan's on: Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Facebook, and iTunes. HarvestMinistry.org MissionMindedWomen.org MissionMindedFamilies.org

Research Handbook of Global Families

Research Handbook of Global Families
Author: Yvonne Kallane
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2023-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788112873

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With research into the lives of global families becoming an increasing focus worldwide, this Research Handbook is a timely compendium of contemporary scholarship. It aptly describes the work-family interface, delving into the unique dimensions of global family life.