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Missionary
Care...
Because we
don't
separate the Great Commission from the Great Commandment
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Having completed a career in teaching at Asbury College, Dr. Ron Koteskey is a Member Care Consultant for New Hope International Ministries.
Through New Hope, Ron and his wife, Bonnie, offer on-field help to
independent missionaries, to missionaries whose agencies have no one
designated for missionary care, and to missionaries who would prefer
talking with someone outside their agencies.
As part of this
ministry they have developed a series of brochures,
a database, and six e-books:
one on re-entry, one titled What Missionaries Ought to Know
(freshly revised and combining the series of brochures of the same
name), one on TCKs, and one on adolescence. In early 2007 Ron and
Bonnie wrote a reentry book for children 6-12 years of age and an
accompanying one for their parents. Follow this
link for more information on the e-books.
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Resources available
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Written for missionaries, these brochures contain practical
information about various topics related to missions and mental health.
They are written in a short, simple, question-answer format and are
available on this web site in pdf format so that they may be distributed
to others via email. They are free and may be freely shared.
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Several e-books are available for download here, or for reading
online. These books are also free and may be freely shared.
There are e-book copies of the entire "What Missionaries Ought to
Know" series, the Reentry book, Coming Home, Understanding
Adolescence, and Third Culture Kids and Adolescence: Cultural
Creations.
In March 2007 Ron and Bonnie
completed both We’re Going Home and I Don’t want to Go Home for
parents and children returning to their passport cultures.
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Developed for those involved in member care, this database contains
information about missionary care. Potentially useful for missionaries in
general, this database contains information about more than 800 articles
and books. It can be used to produce lists of publications or annotated
bibliographies with information on more than 100 topics relevant to
member care.
Database home
Resources by Topic
Resources by Author
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When returning to their passport country, many missionaries have
difficulty reentering the culture in which they grew up. They may
find it difficult to close the chapter on their time in the host culture
and begin the new chapter in their “home” culture.
As a result of their experience in facilitating more than twenty
reentry retreats, Ron and Bonnie have prepared a guide which can be
effectively used in a group / retreat setting, or by individuals.
See also the 2007 reentry e-books for
elementary children and their parents
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Ron developed his thoughts relating to TCKs (Third Culture Kids) in
his e-book titled: Third Culture Kids and Adolescence: Cultural
Creations
See also the 2007 e-book for
children 6-12 years old reentering their passport culture as well as the
book for their parents.
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"Are you interested in what people want to know about missionary
care? In what questions they are asking? In what topics they click on?
Follow this link to read Ron's paper about activity on this website.
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Ron and Bonnie are available for member care consultations. Follow
this link to read about various options here for individuals,
organizations, and multi-agency groups in a geographical area.
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We are happy to refer you to other web sites containing information
relevant to missionary care.
If you are looking for www.missionarycare.org
by Godspeed Missionary Care Corporation, this link will take you to that
excellent site full of additional missionary care resources by Barney and
Karen Davis.
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