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Caring for Your Missionaries

How should local churches care for those they send out on world mission?

Adrian Reynolds , Eddie Arthur · 19 May 2022

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In this bonus episode of In:Dependence, Adrian Reynolds discusses how to care for missionaries sent from your church - before they go, when they're there, and when they're back.

00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - Before they go
02:41 - When they're there
05:22 - Missionary furlough
06:46 - Caring for missionary kids
08:25 - When they come home

In:Dependence is FIEC’s official podcast, where you’ll hear teaching and resources for church leaders from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests from FIEC churches and partners.

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Adrian Reynolds

Adrian is FIEC's Head of National Ministries. He previously served as Associate Minister of East London Tabernacle Baptist Church and is currently an elder at Christchurch Harborough.

Dr Eddie Arthur has worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators since the mid 1980s. His current role involves research, writing and advising churches and mission agencies about trends in the world church and mission.

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