Tom Shaw was kind enough to put the Grady Toland concert held at Cedarville University (nee College) back in the 1980s onto YouTube. Grady was not a music professional. He was a missionary who was invited to do a bit of a music show at Cedarville. That may have been the first and last time …
Category: member care
Rethinking Member Care “Models”
Maybe three years ago, I did some work on member care models after going through an online training course with Harry Hoffmann. It was great, but I was not fully sold on the "Pyramid Model" he used. But recently I have had a change of heart and agree that model is great. His model is: …
Greetings to 6th Triennial Congress: Mobiliation for Global Missions (2025)
This relates to the congress we joined a couple of weeks ago. More on that gathering by clicking on https://munsonmissions.org/2025/08/13/at-the-6th-triennial-congress-for-global-missions/
Missionary Member Care Presentation
The video Celia and I did on missionary member care (a very light, scratching the surface). Feel free to view it. https://player.vimeo.com/video/847201937?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479
Member Care Support System
There are different ways of showing the levels of support in Missionary Member Care. Harry Hoffmann has a nice way of showing it--- The Pyramid of Care. I like this way of showing care. I did suggest a slight modification from a pyramid to an octohedron. The only reason for doing it is to show …
Missionary Burnout
I hope I don't have to tell you which is better and which is worst in terms of self-care when one has already reached a state of psychospiritual burnout. But if you need help, one side is better than the other and the other side is worse.
The Missionary’s Two Homes
Sometimes as Christians we talk about the idea that this world is not our real home--- heaven is our real home. One of my favorite gospel songs as a youth spoke of this. The first verse said, "This wold is not my my home, I'm a just a passin' through. If heaven's not my home, …
Member Care and the Mission Agency
I am teaching Missionary Member Care this 1st Semester. I have taught it before, and have had some formal training--- in seminary, in retreat, and online. I have been in missions for 16-1/2 years so I feel like I know a bit about the topic. The week area I have is with mission agencies. I …
Unfriendly Media as God’s Instrument
For years it was happening to THEM. THEY were in the spotlight, not US. But things change... and it is about time. For years the Catholic Church has taken a lot of hits for cases of priests taking sexual advantage of parishioners... especially (but not exclusively) young ones. I must be honest that I have …