Questions about Daily Life Overseas!

What can you expect when it comes to daily life as a missionary overseas? What is it really like? Obviously that depends on whether you are in the jungle or a big city, but here are some great comments by those living there now!

Language and Culture Learning

Why is it valuable to learn the language and the culture together?

What is the best way for me to learn a language for ministry?

What is it like to learn another language?

Can I become a missionary if I don’t want to learn another language?

Culture Shock and Stress

How do missionaries living in remote areas or who have few team members deal with loneliness and isolation?

How do I learn to prevent burnout when I become a missionary?

How do I learn how to deal with culture shock?

Communication With Supporters

How do I write newsletters?

How much time and energy should a missionary expect to put into communication with people back home?

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Expectations

When it comes to interpersonal relationships with fellow missionaries, what should I expect? Will we get along?

What is hard about life as a missionary?

What does day-to-day life look like on the field? What is a typical day for a missionary?

What do missionaries wish they had known before they first went?

Sticky Issues

How does a missionary deal with having to leave the mission field and the relationships he or she has developed with people along the way when their time has come to an end?

How do missionaries respond to the many requests by nationals to help them get to the US? Especially when you have doubts about their intentions and motives for going?

What do missionaries think about bribery and how do they respond when they are expected to pay bribes and “special fees?

Questions about Daily Life Overseas!

Language and Culture Learning

Why is it valuable to learn the language and the culture together?

What is the best way for me to learn a language for ministry?

What is it like to learn another language?

Can I become a missionary if I don’t want to learn another language?

Culture Shock and Stress

How do missionaries living in remote areas or who have few team members deal with loneliness and isolation?

How do I learn to prevent burnout when I become a missionary?

How do I learn how to deal with culture shock?

Communication With Supporters

How do I write newsletters?

How much time and energy should a missionary expect to put into communication with people back home?

Expectations

When it comes to interpersonal relationships with fellow missionaries, what should I expect? Will we get along?

What is hard about life as a missionary?

What does day-to-day life look like on the field? What is a typical day for a missionary?

What do missionaries wish they had known before they first went?

Sticky Issues

How does a missionary deal with having to leave the mission field and the relationships he or she has developed with people along the way when their time has come to an end?

How do missionaries respond to the many requests by nationals to help them get to the US? Especially when you have doubts about their intentions and motives for going?

What do missionaries think about bribery and how do they respond when they are expected to pay bribes and “special fees?

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Questions about Daily Life Overseas!

Language and Culture Learning

Culture Shock and Stress

Communication With Supporters

Expectations

Sticky Issues​

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Sticky Issues