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Advocate teams should provide ongoing presence and intentional care to their missionaries as well as be a voice for them to the church as a whole and to church leaders, says Nathan Sloan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read Advocate Teams, the Local Church Caring for Missionaries<\/a> (Mission Frontiers). This edition includes other articles on missionary-care topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPrayer is supplying missionaries with essentials for their survival… I\u2019ve found that there are some simple prayer requests that are always applicable and always needed,\u201d says Elliot Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read Prayer Will Win the Nations<\/a> (Desiring God).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poverty. War. Famine. Disease. These are incredibly complex issues to understand as an adult, let alone for a child. But this era of social media and instant news means our kids are more exposed to these global realities than ever before. How do we tackle these tough conversations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read Tips for Talking With Your Kids About Poverty and Other Tough Stuff<\/a> (World Vision).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rebecca Hopkins says she now measures her worst nights of sleep against nights flying with kids. But she made a list of tips from friends and her own experience that can help you with those long-haul flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read Flying With Kids Internationally: 25 Tips<\/a> (Go.Serve.Love.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are duffling and metapacking? Have you ever suffered from the fortnightlies or bait and glitch, or been seated behind the passenger of imminent domain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read Because There Just Aren\u2019t Enough Words to Describe the Overseas Experience, Here Are a Few More for Your Lexicon<\/a> (A Life Overseas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sources: Various Missionary Advocate Teams for Local Churches Advocate teams should provide ongoing presence and intentional care to their missionaries as well as be a voice for them to the church as a whole and to church leaders, says Nathan Sloan. Read Advocate Teams, the Local Church Caring for Missionaries (Mission Frontiers). This edition includes … Continue reading Short Takes: Found Around the Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11242,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Three Ways to Pray for Missionaries<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Talking With Kids About Poverty<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Flying With Kids Internationally<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Finally, on the Lighter Side…<\/h4>\n\n\n\n