What Email Lists or Newsletters Distribute Information about Missionary Member Care?
Short & Simple Summary
As is the case in many situations, there are periodic communications regarding missionary member care to which interested people can subscribe. This chapter has some ranging from those which include news from around the world to those that include only information about one organization. Here are the communications described in this chapter.
Global Member Care Network Newsletter (GMCN)
Resources for Good Practice Update
The Well Member Care Center Newsletter
Mobile Member Care Team Communiqué
Member Care and Counseling Resources
Resource Tool for Personnel Workers
Africa Member Care Network
Member Care Southern Africa
Brigada Today
If you want more detail and links to other sources, read on.
**********************
People involved in missionary member care may like finding email in their inboxes periodically. Here are some things you can subscribe to. Most of them are archived so that you can read those sent months or years ago. Included are links to subscribe to them or visit the archives.
Global Member Care Network Newsletter (GMCN)
Sponsored by the World Evangelical Alliance mission committee, this monthly newsletter has the following usual contents:
· Sponsor
· Editorial
· Surveys
· Global Map
· Resources
Past newsletters are available at http://www.globalmembercare.org/index.php?id=26.
Subscriptions are available at
http://www.globalmembercare.org/newsletter/user/subscribe.php .
Resources for Good Practice Update
Sponsored by Member Care Associates and aimed at member care workers in missions as well as cross-cultural aid workers, this monthly newsletter has a different theme each month.
Past Newsletters are available at
http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125.
Subscriptions are available at
The Well Member Care Center Newsletter
Sponsored by the Well in Chiang Mai, Thailand, this monthly newsletter has the following usual contents:
· Spiritual Formation/Retreats
· Marriage
· Children and Families
· Transition and Cross-Cultural Training
· Training and Conferences
· The Last Word…
Past newsletters available at
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=93ed99d9b6c8479d135b01b96&id=ee1513775d&e=25f63328eb.
Subscriptions are available at
http://thewellcm.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=93ed99d9b6c8479d135b01b96&id=42f9450e8c.
Mobile Member Care Team Communiqué
Sponsored by the Mobile Member Care Team, this quarterly newsletter has a different theme every three months. The communiqué has been rather erratic recently, but the archives are still valuable.
Past Communiqués are available at
http://www.mmct.org/#/resources/communiqu.
Subscriptions are available at mmct@mmcct.org.
Member Care and Counseling Resources
This monthly email is sent by John Leverington, Director of Olive Tree Counseling Center. It covers different subject matter each month, but it is not archived at this point. It is primarily links to websites that have information useful to people in member care, in counseling and in schools regarding organizational leadership, family, and mental health issues. To subscribe, contact John.Leverington at john.leverington@gmail.com.
Resource Tool for Personnel Workers
This monthly "resource tool" is designed to provide encouragement for “personnel workers” in ministry-related areas. It is a source of encouragement for people providing missionary member care rather than information for them to use in helping others. It is written by Ken Royer on staff at Link Care. People wanting to be added to the list email Ken at kenroyer@linkcare.org or kenroyer@aol.com.
The above newsletters have been around for several years and are for English speaking missionary member care workers, primarily those from North America and the United Kingdom. As member care spreads to other continents and other countries, such newsletters are beginning to appear for them as well. Here are some examples.
Africa Member Care Network
This network has been sending bimonthly newsletters since 2011 at
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=895d43ef69926eab7812e0395&id=72bb7e4778.
Member Care Southern Africa
This network has been sending out newsletters since 2012 at
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=407209516f9457da095ea4268&id=1f412d120a&e=673b949319.
The final newsletter listed below is not primarily about missionary member care, but it does have some good member care information along with other valuable information. It has been in existence since 1994, and it has thousands of subscribers.
Brigada Today
Brigada is a growing collection of web- and email-based resources staged from the offices of Team Expansion at Emerald Hills in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Brigada Today is a web journal offering resources, strategy tips, tools & “hacks” to Great Commission Christians. It is edited by Doug Lucas at Team Expansion.
Each weekly email contains about a dozen items that range across the missionary spectrum. To view the current one go to http://www.brigada.org/ . If you want to sign up to get it via email each week, you can sign up on that page. If you want to look at its archives, you can go to the archives tab.
Note to the reader: If you have suggestions about other things that would better answer this chapter’s question, please email those to me at ron@missionarycare.com. In that email please tell me three things: (1) what you believe needs to be included, (2) links to relevant websites if available, and (3) how it better answers the question “What email lists or newsletters distribute information about missionary member care?” I plan to periodically update and expand the book with these suggestions.