Free 500-page PDF on missionary kids for parents, teachers and caregivers

Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and Joyce Bowers have graciously given permission to post this book online for people to download free of charge because the book is out of print. This 500-page book contains the collected wisdom of 38 authors who wrote the 56 chapters. It was the collaborative effort of ACSI, Interaction, Inc., and Mission Training International (MTI) and provides resources for people who have responsibility for MKs and other TCKs. (From www.missionarycare.com)

Chapters include: Preparing Children for Missionary Life; Preparing Our MKs for College; Making Career Choices; Bruising: When Things Go Wrong; Family Dynamics That Affect the MK; The Importance of Fathers in MK Development

Download as a pdf file (1.68 mb)

Download as a Word .doc file (1.53 mb)

Download as a .zip archive (469 kb)

Download as a .mobi for the Kindle (5.8 mb)

Other available resources from www.missionarycare.com and www.crossculturalworkers.com:

• What Missionaries Ought to Know
• Missionary Marriage Issues
• Psychology for Missionaries
  
• Understanding Adolescence
• Cultural Creations: Third Culture Kids and Adolescence
• Coming Home: The Reentry Transition
• Before You Come "Home": Preparing for Reentry
• We're Going Home - Reentry for Elementary School Children
• I Don't Want to Go Home: Parents Guide for Reentry for Elementary School Children
• Reentry After Short Term Missionary Service

Why do so few people take the Gospel to the unevangelized?

“The Great Omission, A Biblical Basis for World Evangelism”, by J. Robertson McQuilkin (read from Google Books or download PDF)

McQuilkin is the President Emeritus of Columbia International University and spent 12 years as a missionary in Japan. He resigned as president to care for his wife, Muriel when she reached the stage of Alzheimer’s disease in which she needed full-time care (listen to his moving resignation speech.)

During one lecture before several hundred college students, McQuilkin was asked, “How is it, with so many unreached peoples, there are so few Christians going?” In this book, he provides five major answers:

We don’t care that much.

We don’t see very well.

We think there must be some other way.

Our prayer is peripheral.

Someone isn’t listening.