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Perspectives and Vision for Member Care in Missions - Coggle Diagram
Perspectives and Vision for Member Care in Missions
Member care is the ongoing commitment of resources and potential resources by missions agency, sending churches, etc for the development of missionary personnel (O’Donnell, p.10)
Five facets of member care : structured program, philosophy of ministry, ethical necessity, inter-disciplinary field, a movement (O’Donnell, p.11)
Signs of member care : crisis counseling, career guidance pre-field and reentry orientation seminars, personnel development departments, support groups, attitude, posture and value (O’Donnell, p.11)
Questions about member care; much of the concern seems to center not on the need for staff care, but on its possible overemphasis (O’Donnell, p.13)
Who is responsible for member care? Everyone (O’Donnell, p.17)
Cross-cultural member care is always a challenge (O’Donnell, p.17)
Member care strategies (O’Donnell, p.14)
Staff development; charcter development, spiritual maturation, skill aquisition and competence in cross-cultural living (O’Donnell, p.14)
Life span emphasis; long-term care of staff over th ecourse of their lives (O’Donnell, p.15)
Proactive interventions: going into the community, action research, needs and resource assessment, identifying groups at risk, advocacy (O’Donnell, p.14)
Avenues for staff to provide and receive member care (O’Donnell, p.18)
Enhancing spiritual life (O’Donnell, p.18)
Children’s ministry (O’Donnell, p.18)
Increasing the sense of community (O’Donnell, p.18)
General supportive services (O’Donnell, p.18)
Training opportunities (O’Donnell, p.18)
Benefits of member care; reduced attrition, increased retention, increase morale, enhance production, boost recruitment, cost effective, protection, prevention (Gardner, p.15)
The biblical basis for member care (Gardner, p.16)
Jesus’ example (Gardner, p.16)
How much did Jesus care? (Gardner, p.17)
Bible illustrates care for the Christian worker (Gardner, p.17)
The example of the Body of Christ (Gardner, p.17)
One-another commandments in the NT (Gardner, p.17)
Jesus gave the model for Christian leaders to be a shepherd (Gardner, p.18)
One of God’s greatest chastisements is towards uncaring shepherds (Gardner, p.18)
Mission work involves many dangers (Gardner, p.19)
Spiritual battle (Gardner, p.19)
Administrators don’t have time (Gardner, p.19)
We need help from one another (Gardner, p.19)
More wounded people are entering the mission field (Gardner, p.20)
Cross-cultural relationships are hard to make (Gardner, p.20)
Political instability, violence (Gardner, p.20)
Temptations are strong (Gardner, p.20)
Epidemic of lonliness (Gardner, p.20)