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10 Funny Videos to Help Explain Missionary Life

10 Funny Videos to Help Explain Missionary Life

Are you ready to laugh and see some funny videos to help explain missionary life and overseas life? You know when you see something funny and it really strikes you as true for some circumstance in your life? That’s how this list came to be. You see the video clip and you laugh and laugh …

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How to Communicate Effectively With Workers Living Overseas

How to Communicate with Missionaries

Learning how to communicate effectively with people who live and work overseas is a complicated thing. For you and for them. Numerous email accounts. Social Media accounts. Newsletters. Communicate, communicate, communicate. That is a major part of what is required from overseas workers. With the insertion of technology on the missions front, the fishbowl has …

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Prayer for Missionaries - New Ways to Pray for Missionaries and Families

New Ways to Pray for Missionaries

Over the past years, we’ve taken you along on a journey. This is a journey past the five minute window at your church, behind the prayer card in your Bible and directly into the life of workers overseas. The real life. Not just the cut and paste happy moments that make their way into a …

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Missionary Care Packages - Sending a Care Package Overseas

Sending A Care Package Overseas

This is NOT a plea for care packages OR a complaint of the packages we have already received. I’ll just lay that out there at the front end of this post so we are all on the same page. This is NOT a secret way of asking anyone to send us anything! Or in writing …

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Things I would not say to a new missionary

Things I Would NOT Say to a New Overseas Worker

I already have a list of things I would not say to an overseas mom… Well, I thought of another list for things not to say to a new overseas worker. Because that’s us. Ok… we started back in 2012… I KNOW. It takes forever and we’re STILL new. The newness is a long, long, …

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A Gift Giving Guide for Travelers

Creative Gift Ideas for Travelers

You are looking for gift ideas for travelers. You need a giving guide with fun things to choose from that would be a blessing to someone working overseas. You want to buy a gift for a missionary family and you feel lost about what to send. You have no idea what to get them. You …

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Impact of Social Media on Missions and Missionary Life

The Impact of Social Media on Overseas Life

“Jeremy, should I post this?” We had just settled in our seats, on our way to a much needed ENGLISH speaking break in London. I’d taken a picture of the very cool dining car on the train, but the question remained… to post or not to post? #thatisALWAYSthequestion {even for this post… I’ve edited it …

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As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey... Genesis 24:27

When An Expat Misses Home

It was late. Everyone was hungry. We were trying to find something to eat in Paris. Something that shouldn’t be too hard is actually quite difficult. Either the restaurant is closed. The prices are too high. There isn’t a place to sit. and on and on… But this night, Jeremy found a place called FrogBurger …

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Missionary Family - The Family of a Missionary Who Is Left At Home

The Family Left at Home

I’m not even sure how to write this post about the missionary family left at home. I actually started to write it around the holidays but I couldn’t continue. Thinking about our family back home around the holidays is one of those bitter sweet things of life. I know they are there… right in the …

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