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Adventure of Working
Abroad |
| Joyce Saulters Osland |
| Through
the stories of 35 international workers, you can gain valuable
insights into the joys and challenges of living and working
in a “foreign” setting. This book won’t describe
what you have to pack or how to find the train station, but
it will provide a pragmatic framework for understanding—and
mastering—the predictable challenges of each stage in
the expatriate journey. |
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the art of coming home |
| Craig Storti |
| Are you expecting
that home will be the way it was when you left? Are you shocked
to discover that both you and home have changed? The four stages
of the reentry process and the challenges you will face each
step of the way will help transform the reentry experience from
a struggle to an art. |
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the art of crossing cultures |
| Craig Storti |
| Adjusting
to a new culture and getting along with the local people challenge
everyone who lives and works abroad. This one-of-a-kind guidebook
to bridging the cultural divide focuses special attention on
how to deal with country and culture shock and includes a model
of cultural adjustment. |
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Coming Home |
| Howard & Bonnie Lisech |
| Reentry devotional Bible study book which helps those returning from Overseas service as they encounter Reentry Stress. Often people get blind-sided by disconnected feelings, anger, and frustration when they arrive home. Specific Reentry questions will help missionaries identify and deal with the Reentry Stress issue. |
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Crossing Cultures |
| Margaret Burt & Peter
Farthing |
| How do you
manage the stress of re-entry? It is a shock to re-enter a culture
which is radically different – even if it is “home”.
And because serving in another culture has changed us, it isn’t
easy to fit back into the old surroundings. Crossing Cultures
brings together the insights of people who have been through
re-entry and survived. |
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families on the move |
Marion Knell |
A guide for families that are growing up overseas -- and loving it! This book contains helps for preparing yourself and your children, building bridges with ‘home’, living in a non-Western culture, and making right educational choices. |
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Home Away From Home |
| Beverly D. Roman |
| Personal
and professional advice for international relocation challenges.
Over 60 Internet resources, valuable check lists, and pliable
pouches to store relocation records. Addresses how to organize
a move, home sales and purchases, financial, insurance and medical
concerns, elder care issues, schools, etc. |
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Moving Your family overseas |
| Rosalind C. Kalb |
Look at the basic steps involved in moving overseas: deciding to go, preparing to leave, arriving and settling in, working through culture shock and adaptation, and returning home. Here are practical helps for your family to work through the major issues of informing the children and assisting them in adapting, keeping the family functioning as an effective unit, and coping with reentry upon returning home. |
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re-entry |
| Peter Jordan |
| Making the
transition from missions to life at home can be challenging
and even painful. This is essential reading by everyone with
a heart for missions; those who send, those who are sent and
especially those on the welcome committee when they return! |
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The Re-Entry Team |
| Neal Pirolo |
| An excellent
book on re-entry by the author of Prepare for Battle that will
help you minister to your missionaries when they return. A realistic
study that is a tremendous expression of what is actually happening
on the mission field. The result will be that the church will
be blessed and built up and world missions will go forward. |
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Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes |
| William Bridges |
This essential guide takes readers step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced. Every transition begins with an ending, has a neutral zone, and then a new beginning. It gives strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life. |
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