Contents

Preface

 

Part I: The Author’s Story

 

1.   Before I Was Born

 

2.   Childhood and Adolescence

 

3.   Called to Preach

 

4.   Called to Teach

 

5.   Called to Care

 

6.   Caring for Missionaries

 

7.   In Their Own Words

 

Part II: The Story of the Websites

 

8: The Beginning: Before 1998

 

9: The First Five Years: 1998-2003

 

10: The Second Five Years: 2003-2008

 

11: The Third Five Years:  2008-2013

 

12: The Fourth Five Years: 2013-2018

 

Other E-books by the Author

 

 

 

Preface

 

 

            I did not sit down to write this book.  It is a compilation of several short items I had written just for myself so that I would not forget what had happened.  Some of the events occurred many years before I was born, and the last chapter is still incomplete.   I plan to update the book (complete that chapter) in a couple years and then continue updating it every five years after that as long as I am able.  I wrote this book for myself, but I believe it may be of interest to others serving in member care.

Part 1 of the book is about events that happened to me and my actions and reactions.  This part of the book is based on my memories, journal entries, information from books, information from periodicals, information from the Internet, and so forth.  Much of this is subjective and not well documented.

Part 2 of this book is facts about the websites www.missionarycare.com and www.crossculturalworkers.com .   It is based on statistics gathered automatically by stat packages that come with the hosting service, emails about when books or brochures were posted, when the database was updated, and so forth.  These are well documented facts.  I taught statistics for 35 years, often twice a year, so gathering this information was second nature for me.

As with everything I write, I owe much to the editing skills of Art Nonneman and Yvonne Moulton.  They add information, correct grammar, and make my writing look better than it really is.