215: Supporting our mission workers during re-entry
Oct 3, 2023
Today’s episode explores how we can support our missions workers as they return to their culture of origin. As a returning missionary himself, Bradley Bell shares with us his experience coming home, the challenges he faced, and how we as a community at home can receive our mission workers in an intentional, loving way.
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Bradley Bell is a former missionary who serves as lead pastor at Antioch Church and senior editor for The Upstream Collective. He is the author of The Sending Church Defined and his writing is compiled at BrokenMissiology.org. He lives among the diverse community of south Louisville, Kentucky with his wife, Katie, and daughters Elisabeth, Charlotte, Anneliese, and Madeleine.
Show Notes:
Antioch church
The Upstream Collective
Broken Missiology
A Pocket guide to talking to missionaries
Ep 121: 3 Principles for Growing a Healthy Sending Church by Bradley Bell
Ep 100: Returning Well: A Guide to Thriving After Serving Cross-Culturally by Melissa Chaplin
The Sending Church Defined – Second Edition
Returning well by Melissa Chaplin
Returning Well
Receiving Sent Ones During Reentry by Zach Bradley, Susan McCrary, Rodney Calfee, Andy Jansen
The Re-entry Team by Neal Pirolo
Holding the Rope by Ryan Martin
Re-entry by Peter Jordan
Burn up or Splash Down by Marion Knell
The Art of Coming Home by Craig Storti
On Being a Missionary by Thomas Hale and Gene Daniels
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds by David Pollock, Ruth Van Reken and Michael Pollock
Ep 27: How to Care for Returning Missionaries by Neal Pirolo
Ep 203: How Local Churches Can Care for Missionaries at Every Stage by Ryan Martin
bradley@upstreamcollective.org
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A Pocket Guide for Talking to Missionaries
