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Deliverable #3: Shepherding
Posted by
Bob Fetherlin
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16 April 2008
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Shepherding, or pastoral care, is another key deliverable provided through our C&MA missionary sending structure. Some of the many delivery channels / methods are pastoral care couples from US churches who help care for a specific field team, a developmental assessment process designed to help missionaries in their personal growth and development, and professional caregivers who provide specialized help in response to specific needs. The US C&MA seeks to care well for its missionaries!
A Member Care Team helps oversee the shepherding of US Alliance missionaries. This team has put together a paper describing a helpful model of member care, and is working to improve the quality of this care for missionary personnel.
Through a member care audit, more than twenty specific elements of current member care were identified. Many people in the US and around the world contribute to the provision of these various expressions of member care.
Each year member care specialists gather for a "Mental Health and Missions" Conference involving many US-based mission agencies. The C&MA participates in this event. Papers are presented, ideas are shared, and networking is done at this event with the goal of improving the quality and delivery of member care.
How can we best come aside personnel in their personal growth and development journey? What do we do when a missionary encounters serious personal or relational problems? What does gracious intervention look like when a missionary is struggling with effectiveness? These and many other issues are a part of the shepherding equation. May God help us shepherd missionaries well . . . they're too valuable to lose!
A Member Care Team helps oversee the shepherding of US Alliance missionaries. This team has put together a paper describing a helpful model of member care, and is working to improve the quality of this care for missionary personnel.
Through a member care audit, more than twenty specific elements of current member care were identified. Many people in the US and around the world contribute to the provision of these various expressions of member care.
Each year member care specialists gather for a "Mental Health and Missions" Conference involving many US-based mission agencies. The C&MA participates in this event. Papers are presented, ideas are shared, and networking is done at this event with the goal of improving the quality and delivery of member care.
How can we best come aside personnel in their personal growth and development journey? What do we do when a missionary encounters serious personal or relational problems? What does gracious intervention look like when a missionary is struggling with effectiveness? These and many other issues are a part of the shepherding equation. May God help us shepherd missionaries well . . . they're too valuable to lose!
