I. Women in Leadership This content was co-written with my friend LB who previously served as a team leader in East Asia and is currently serving in member care. In the previous post, I shared about my leadership journey and the unique internal tension I felt about being a woman leader in ministry and on […]
Author: Jenn Chang
One of the topics that I’m most passionate about is empowering women towards leadership in missions. Half of the people among the unreached are women, and in many contexts, women are both the early adopters of the gospel and the ones who pass faith and discipleship onto their families. Currently, women make up ⅔ of […]
In our experience as team leaders, the number one characteristic that we look for in goers and missions leaders is humility. Without humility towards God and towards fellow workers and national partners, we will never be able to persevere, succeed, or to find joy in our calling as team leaders. Main Resource: Humility: The Journey […]
One of the prevailing messages many of us are taught growing up is that emotions are a bad thing. For those of us who grew up in the West, emotions are often seen as illogical or considered a weakness. However, the Bible is filled with emotional language because God himself feels emotions! He can be […]
One of the main reasons why we started this blog to pass on lessons to missions leaders was that this past season of cancer made us realize that our time is limited. In this post, I want to share about my experience of finding out I had cancer, the ways that God met us in […]
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“i am running into a new year”
Cancer, more than anything, transformed our lives into “before” and “after.” At the end of 2021, while going through cancer treatment, I stumbled across this poem by Lucille Clifton. Its message reflected the bittersweet experiences Steven and I were facing as God used suffering to refine and transform us into who He wanted us to […]
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Team Conflict
Team conflict on the field is a fact of life. Many studies of missionary field teams have found that “disagreements with other missionaries” is one of the top reasons for preventable missionary attrition. Because team leaders bear the responsibility for the health and thriving of their team, we need to be prepared to face and […]
We started this blog to provide tools, insights, and resources for leaders in the missions world. And there are so many great resources that we have learned from that we want to point you towards! We’ll regularly have these “Quick Reads” posts to provide some of the best articles, books, quotes, videos, and miscellaneous things […]
For missionaries launching to the field, the checklist of tasks to accomplish can feel unending – visas, housing, schooling – the list goes on and on. Not only that, we have learned from experience that cross cultural stress and transition tends to bring out the worst in ourselves. Leaving behind every comfort, support, and relationship […]