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adrenaline and stress |
| Dr. Archibald D Hart |
| An eye-opening
book that teaches how to monitor your own adrenaline arousal,
relax, change Type-A behavior, cooperate with your body’s
need for more sleep, enhance creativity, and prevent stress-induced
diseases. |
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$12.99 |
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All stressed up and everywhere to go! |
| Gaylyn Williams and Ken Williams, Ph.D. |
An essential key to missionary success is the ability to effectively handle stress and avoid burnout. From the daily hassles to the catastrophic events, this book empowers readers to successfully de-stress their lives. This unique skills-based workbook contains practical, biblical tools for maintaining spiritual, emotional and physical health in the midst of stress. It is filled with powerful personal stories to illustrate principles, thought-provoking questions for individual or group study, Bible studies, self-assessments, and easy-to-apply strategies. |
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$14.97 |
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burnout: the cost of caring |
| Christina Maslach |
Are you in the position of taking care of, teaching, helping or ministering to others? Do you feel that all your caring, all your efforts to make things right take too much out of you? How do you recognize, prevent, and cure the burnout syndrome for those who care about people? This book will help you understand burnout and show you how to beat it. |
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$19.99 |
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Can It Be Me? |
| Marjory Foyle |
This is an autobiography of an internationally known expert on the nature of stress and how it affects Christians working in cross-cultural situations. Marjory spent over 30 years as a medical missionary in India and Nepal, specialized in psychiatry and has an itinerant ministry among missionaries in 40 countries. |
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$17.99 |
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Compendium of Presentations |
| Edited by John Powell and Dave Wickstrom |
A collection of papers from the 1998 & 1999 Mental Health & Missions Annual Conferences. The themes of the two conferences are Preventative Approaches to Mental Health in Missions and Integrating the Spiritual and Psychological in Mental Health Services to Missionaries. |
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$12.00 |
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Doing Member Care
Well |
| Kelly O’Donnell |
| This book
explores how member care is being practiced around the world.
There are guidelines, personal accounts, case studies, program
descriptions, worksheets, and lots of practical advice by over
60 international colleagues and edited by Kelly O’Donnell.
A must for all involved in missions member care. |
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$24.99 |
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Enhancing Missionary
Vitality: Mental Health Professions Serving Global Mission |
| Dr. John R. Powell and
Joyce M. Bowers |
A compilation
of research, theological insights, models, and case studies
gleaned from over two decades of Mental Health and Missions
conferences. It addresses some of the most perplexing challenges
faced by the international missions community from the unique
perspective of Christian mental health professionals
It deals with the current context of mental health and missions,
characteristics of cross-cultural service which impact mental
health, problems for which mental health professionals are consulted,
innovative models for providing care, ethics and professional
standards, and research. |
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$24.95 |
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Embracing a concrete desert |
| Lynne E. Chandler |
| This is the story of an unfinished journey -- a journey that finds a path through struggle and difficulty to acceptance and peace of mind. It is the story of one woman choosing to seek serenity in the midst of struggles to adapt to a very different life, and discovering how, in the driest of desert places, God can reveal fresh water springs for the soul. It is a story shared through lyrical journal relections and poems sparked by the ups and downs of life in a teeming Middle Eastern metropolis. |
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$11.99 |
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Growing Through
Stress |
| Kath Donovan |
| This book
sweeps away the misconceptions about stress. Without underestimating
the pain it can cause, she explains that stress is a God-given
response designed to equip us for living successfully and is
only our enemy when it gets out of control. Handled creatively,
it can help us grow and enrich our lives. |
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$15.95 |
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Honourably Wounded: Stress Among
Christian Workers |
| Marjory F. Foyle, M.D. |
| Stress is
a natural part of even a healthy life. Living in alien, often
hostile cultures, typically without normal support networks,
missionaries are especially vulnerable to disabling stress.
Issues addressed by this missionary psychiatrist include: marriage,
singleness, interpersonal relationships, children, culture shock,
burnout and mental health. |
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$14.95 |
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missionary care |
| Kelly O'Donnell |
| A handbook
for developing healthy and effective missionary personnel with
articles from 20 authors. It provides a wealth of practical
advice, case illustrations and innovative strategies to encourage
and equip missionary personnel in their work. |
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$16.99 |
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parents of missionaries |
| Cheryl Savageau & Diane Stortz |
| Parents of Missionaries is a valuable tool for parents of missionaries, missions mobilizers and educators. It presents a comprehesive plan for understanding missionary life, navigating the holidays, grandparenting long-distnace, and saying good-bye well. It equips you with the understanding, attitudes, and skills you need to forge a vibrant new identity as a Parent of a Missionary. |
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$16.99 |
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The pressure's off |
| Larry Crabb |
There are two basic approaches to life – two pathways. One creates pressure and leaves us feeling distant from God. The other provides freedom and refreshment as we tap into the power to draw closer to God in a personal way. |
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$14.99 |
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the safest place on earth |
| Larry Crabb |
There are many paths through life but only one leads to the safest place on earth where people connect and are forever changed. Move to a deeper level of intimacy with God and others. You can be a part of a family of believers who are changing into the likeness of Christ. |
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$19.99 |
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self-help for your nerves |
| Dr. Claire Weekes |
| This book has comprehensive advice for coping with nervous stress by illustrating how simply nervous illness can begin and then developing a practical program for its cure. |
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$20.00 |
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Serving as Senders |
| Neal &
Yvonne Pirolo |
| Those who
go and those who serve as senders are like two units on the
same cross-cultural outreach team. This book makes the point
that mobilizers or senders are crucial to missions. |
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$7.99 |
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tomorrow can be different |
| H. Norman Wright |
| No matter what negative messages you carry from your [past, no matter what frustrations you face today, tomorrow can be different. You can grab hold of God’s love and forgiveness, receive fresh vision fro your life, test your dreams and bring them in line with God’s plans for you, overcome daily struggles and experience what it means to love God and enjoy him forever. |
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$5.99 |
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Weary Warriors |
| Carrie Sydnor Coffman |
| A book about
how to charge off into battle with vigor without killing the
horse that carries you there. This book brings the weary warrior
tremendous insight through personal experience, practical, wise
advice and real-life stories. |
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$12.00 |
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What Missionaries
Need to Know About Burnout and Depression |
| Esther Schubert |
| This book
provides a depth of detail on the symptoms, causes and consequences
of missionary stress, burn-out, and depression. It is a tremendous
value to mission leaders and anyone concerned with the care
of missionaries themselves. |
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$5.50 |
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Worth Keeping: Global Perspectives on Best Practice in Missionary Retention |
| Rob Hay, Valerie Lim, Detlef Blöcher, Jaap Ketelaar, and Sarah Hay |
Worth Keeping is a comprehensive and user-friendly tool filled with practical information that every mission leader, church or agency needs. If we put into practice its recommendations we will see more effective missionaries who feel valued as servants of the living God. |
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$24.99 |
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| Questions? Need more information?
Contact resources@mti.org |
