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Jonathan Trotter. Serving Well
Serving Well
Table of Contents
Permissions
Foreword
Introduction
Why Are We Here? An Important Question We Must Ask and Keep Asking
How to Transition to the Foreign Field and Not Croak
Living Well Abroad: Four Areas to Consider
The Journey to Feel Starts Small
One Question You Should Get Used to Asking
The Gaping Hole in Modern Missions
Develop Deeper Emotional Intelligence
Remember the Ten Reasons You Should Be a Missionary
When I Was a Trailing Spouse
How to Deal with Trailing Spouse Issues
How Moving Abroad is Like Giving Birth
Ten Ways to Survive Your First Year Overseas
A Sorrow Sandwich
How Do You Write Your Name in the Land?
Remember that Humor Is a Spiritual Discipline
Our First Month Abroad: the Journal Entries
Romance, Science Fiction, and Missions
My Search for Rootedness and the Temporary Intimacy of the Expat Life
Culture Days
A Good Day
C’est la Vie
When Friends Do the Next Right Thing
Outlawed Grief
When Grief Bleeds
C. S. Lewis, Sadness, and What Eternal Hope Looks Like
For the Times When You Hold Back the Tears
When You Just Want to Go Home
Grief on a Spindle
The Gift of Grief and the Thing I Heard in Portland
Naming the Missing Pieces of Our Souls
Two Words for the One Who’s Far from Home
Worthless
When Missionaries Starve
Go to the Small Places
Jesus Loves Me This I Sometimes Know
Learn Your Triangle: A Tool for Discipleship (for You and Others)
Distractions and the Voice of Jesus
Please Stop Running
Margin: The Wasted Space We Desperately Need
Let Me Tell You About Kassiah Jones
Anger Abroad
Angry, Mean, and Redeemed
How to Avoid Burnout
My Low-Pressure Approach to Cultivating Intimacy with God
Surviving the Field as an Introvert
The Art of Pressing on in Our Rhythms
Three Ways to Care for the Heart of Your Wife
The Purpose of Marriage is NOT to Make You Holy
Our Journey to Finding Joy in Marriage, and the Things We Lost Along the Way
When Ministry and Marriage Collide
Intensity and Intentionality
What Christians Can Learn from a New York Times Article about Sleeping with Married Men
Women Have Desire Too: The Thing We Overlook When We Talk about the Billy Graham Rule
I’m a Proverbs 31 Failure
The Proverbs 32 Man
Three Ways to Care for the Heart of Your Third Culture Kid
Three Ways to Care for the Heart of Your Missionary Kid
A Prayer for My Third Culture Kids
Failing at Fatherhood (How Moving Abroad Ruined My Parenting)
What I Want to Give My Third Culture Kids
Particle Physics Finally Explains Third Culture Kids
Two Challenges Homeschooling Families Face on the Field
The Little Word That Frees Us (Lies, Part 1)
“I’m Not Supposed to Have Needs” (Lies, Part 2)
“I Can’t Trust Anyone” (Lies, Part 3)
“God Is Disappointed with Me” (Lies, Part 4)
I Was Sexually Abused: Here’s What I Want All Parents to Do if Their Child Tells Them That They Were Abused Too
Dealing with Conflict on the Field, or Not
Run Away! Run Away! (and Other Conflict Styles)
Conflict and Our Dustlikeness
A Letter to Singles
Making Friends with Short-Term Workers
On Not Being the Casserole Lady
That Time Paul Talked about Breastfeeding
Missionary Mommy Wars
What to Do about Women’s Roles
Misogyny in Missions
Four Tools of Spiritual Manipulators
What Jesus Has to Say about Dealing with Rejection
How Buddhism Taught Me to Love My Neighbors Better
Anticipating Well
The Idolatry of Missions
“God Bless America!” and Other Dangerous Prayers
Before You Cry “Demon!”
It’s Not All about War: Balancing Our Kingdom Rhetoric
Why I Can’t Care about Every Crisis (the Challenge of Living in Two Worlds)
Sometimes Missionaries Get Sick
Revolving Door, Revolving Heart
“But I’ve Done All These Good Things”
Three Spheres of Offense: What We Get Terribly Wrong in Our Response to Abuse and How to Make it Better
Recalculating Well
When the Straight and Narrow Isn’t
Did God Really Say That?
Navigating the Night: Three Things to Do When You Have No Idea What to Do
What If I Fall Apart on the Mission Field?
Demon and Divine
Darkness and Doubt
When Your Exotic Overseas Life Feels Ordinary
A Letter for the One Who’s Waiting
Something No One Told Me Might Happen
For the Times When You Ask, “What Good is That?”
If Your Year Has Been a Flop
What an Open Sewer Taught Me about Resurrection
How to Communicate so People Will Care
Facebook Lies and Other Truths: On Learning How to Curate Stories
A Letter to Christians Living in America from a Christian Living Abroad
When the Lights Go Out
Leaving (and Arriving) Well
When a Country is Etched Into Your Soul
Here’s My heart, O Take and Seal It
The Far Side of Somewhere
To the Returning Missionary
Seven Tips for Goers and Stayers
To the Ones Who Think They Failed
A Blessing for the Road Ahead
About Us
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