Thriving in Difficult Places : Member Care for Yourself and Others is more than a handbook or manual – it is rather a practical tool. You will probably not sit down and read the whole book at once. The section headings, the bullet headings and the activated Table of Contents can help you to easily navigate through the book to find exactly what it is that you need now.

However, you need a chapter or paragraph in order to help yourself or a missionary or aid worker, or to teach and train, it is readily available as a tool on and off the field. It is a self-help and “help others” tool to encourage, counsel, understand and train.

The book is a practical tool for daily use. It is a missionary care handbook that will help missionaries (and even pastors) to look after themselves. Every chapter discusses a stressor of missionaries, including a down-to-earth section on how to practically help themselves and another section on how to help others on the field. Four chapters discuss in detail a way of helping. It will thus also assist Missionary Care Providers, leaders, trainers, churches, supporters, family and friends to understand the stressors and needs of missionaries, helping them to practically look after their missionary in order to thrive on the field and at home.

“I have never come across a book on this topic so well laid out, so easy to navigate and so full of practical wisdom. I recommend this tool for every sender, leader, trainer and Missionary Care Provider, and every local church serious about caring for their missionaries.” – Floyd McClung, Founder and Director: All Nations, Cape Town, South Africa; author of “Father Heart of God” and various other books.