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Serving Well: Help for the Wannabe, Newbie, or Weary Cross-cultural Christian Worker<\/em>, by Elizabeth and Jonathan Trotter (Resource Publications, 2019). 378 pages.<\/p>\n Serving cross-culturally or planning to? You\u2019ve got to read this book!<\/p>\n With more than 100 chapters, it covers everything from how prepare well to how to return well, with reflections and insight on moving overseas; taking care of your heart, marriage, and children; relationships, communication, pitfalls, and what to do when things don\u2019t go as planned.<\/p>\n An emphasis on cultivating self-knowledge and emotional awareness comes through strong.<\/p>\n The book is comprehensive, funny, deep, and well written. I think it would be a good one to read or even read aloud with a spouse, friend, or teammate. You could use chapters to stimulate team discussion. Pastors and member-care types might want to read it, too, and use it as a resource to share with others.<\/p>\n The Trotters serve in Cambodia. Both write for the great collaborative missions blog A Life Overseas<\/a>. Elizabeth is the editor-in-chief. Jonathan spends his days as a pastoral counselor.<\/p>\n \u00bb Learn more or purchase this book from Amazon<\/a>. The Kindle edition is going for US$9.99. Want the paperback?<\/a> Wipf and Stock is selling it for US$20, a 20% discount on the cover price.<\/p>\n \u00bb Another new missions book is making a strong debut. The title suggests a quite different tone. See A Company of Heroes: Portraits from the Gospel\u2019s Global Advance<\/a>, by Tim Keesee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock) Serving Well: Help for the Wannabe, Newbie, or Weary Cross-cultural Christian Worker, by Elizabeth and Jonathan Trotter (Resource Publications, 2019). 378 pages. Serving cross-culturally or planning to? You\u2019ve got to read this book! With more than 100 chapters, it covers everything from how prepare well to how to return … Continue reading BOOK: Serving Well<\/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-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","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=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}