Hopewell Asia Missions
Mission Training

This module consists of 4 video teaching sessions (total of about 5 session hours). Click on the session you would like to complete:

• Session #1: Self-Care & Sabbath
• Session #2: Transition & Resiliency (2 parts)
• Session #3: Safety & Crisis Management
• Session #4: Moral Purity

Additional reading assignments:

• Self-Care Practices - Click here
• Self-Care for Ministry - Click here
• Spiritual Disciplines - Click here
• Sabbath Ceasing - Click here

• Goodbyes: Managing Your Painful Lasts - Click here 
• What Cross-Cultural Workers Ought to Know about Expectations - Click here
• Expectations vs. Expectancy - Click here
• 5 Things First Year Missionaries are Too Quick to Do - Click here
• The Shaky Bridge of Transition - Click here
• Stages of Missionary Life Cycle - Click here
• Stages of Missionary Development - Click here
• Cultural Adjustment - Click here
• 5 Rude Things Honor-Shame Cultures Say - Click here
• 20 Things No One Told You About Moving Overseas - Click here
• Dotsie's Story: Culture Shock and Change - Click here
• Language and Culture Shock, and How to Cope - Click here
• Missionary Transitions - Click here

• Staying Under Spiritual Covering - Click here
• Surviving Year One and Beyond - Click here
• Toward a Biblical View of Suffering - Click here
• The Uninvited Companion - Click here 
• A Suggested Theology of Suffering - Click here
• What Missionaries Ought to Know about Grief - Click here