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Five Best Practices For Your First Year on The Field

Written by Pioneers USA

Are you in the process of moving overseas? The first few months of arriving in your new culture are crucial and you never get them back. Our friends at Pioneers have some great resources to check out before you make the move.

They asked some of their veteran missionaries and asked them if they could go back how they would spend their first few months on the field.

Here are the top five best practices:

1.    Leave your home culture behind.

2.     Give yourself to language and culture learning.

3.     Learn from many mentors.

4.     Stay emotionally and spiritually healthy

5.     Take time to get away

Don't miss the rest of this helpful guide. Continue reading the full article here.

 

Check out some of Pioneers other great resources:

Before You Go: Five Pre-Field Practices Healthy Missionaries Cultivate 

Staying Healthy in Missions.