membercare

Across the Bridge

ATB's ministry is to support and encourage Christian leaders and churches overseas, through prayer, pastoral support and prophetic ministry.
Website: www.acrossthebridge.org.uk
Email:
Tel: 0786 069 2053

Barnabas International

A US based organization with a well established reputation of providing encouragement, care and personal development for Christian leaders and missionaries worldwide.
Website: www.barnabas.org
Email: Barnabas@Barnabas.org
Tel: ++ 1 815 395 1335 (USA)

Bethel Retreat Centre, Kenya

Bethel Retreat Center provides rest, encouragement and restoration through physical, emotional and spiritual care. Based in Kerugoya town, we are committed to supporting Christians serving with churches, missions and other agencies in Africa.
Email:
Tel: ++ 254 202032370 (KENYA)

Clarendon Consultancy

This ministry of Andrew & Madeleine McClintock offers on-the-field assistance to missionaries and Christian NGOs by providing management training and consultancy, lessons in English (TESOL) and general support (including pastoral care & counselling).
Email:
Tel: 0114 258 3707

The Dwelling, Thailand

Located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, The Dwelling is a private and comfortable retreat home for missionaries serving in Asia.  In partnership with The Well Member Care Center and Cornerstone Counseling, its purpose is to help provide spiritual, emotional, physical, and relational care to missionaries teams and families.  Our goal is to promote refreshment, growth, and unity so that workers remain strong and healthy, reaching the world with the Good News.  For those receiving Member Care during their stay, the home is provided for FREE.
Website: www.TheDwelling.info
Email:
Tel: ++ 66 89 829 4823 (THAILAND)

Encourage International

The main purpose of EI is to support and encourage Christian workers across Europe. EI works on building relationships with specific families and individuals and coordinate efforts to find solutions to circumstantial problems - whether financial, material, spiritual or motivational resources. EI works in partnership with other established mission organisations to maximise resources and effectiveness to solve problems. 
Website: www.encourage-international.co.uk
Email: info@encourage-international.co.uk

Global Member Care Network

The Global Member Care Network (GMCN) exists to resource, equip and connect internationally all Christian practitioners of member care at any level. It is a professional community in which mutual learning, training and sharing can take place. It is committed to developing the member care profession by setting high standards, advancing the kingdom of God and glorifying His name.
Website: www.globalmembercare.com
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Godspeed Services

Based in the USA, Godspeed Services strives to provide services to missionaries, individualized to the particular circumstance and location.They have experience in providing on-site medical, counseling, and pastoral support services to missionaries serving in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, South Africa, Mozambique, Spain, Colombia, and India. There is no charge for any professional service. Mission agency responsibility for travel expenses will be negotiated as God leads and provides funding. Whenever possible, they prefer to visit the missionary on the field, bringing a team capable of providing a spectrum of medical, counseling, and pastoral care. However, each request for service is considered individually as regards needs and the availability of specific personnel.
Website: www.missionarycare.org
Tel: ++1 803 788 9141 (USA)

The Juniper Tree, Thailand

Since 1977, The Juniper Tree has been offering rest and refreshment for Christian workers in Asia, working in situations outside of their own culture. They are an evangelical, non-denominational, charitable foundation, set up to provide places where individuals, couples or families can come to find physical and spiritual refreshment to enable them to return to their sphere of service.
We are not a guest house or hotel, but rather our aim is to provide a home away from home, for Christian workers on a low budget to come and enjoy the peaceful environment.
The Juniper Tree has 2 different locations, one at Hua Hin, on the Gulf of Thailand, south-west of Bangkok and the other in Chiang Mai, Thailand’s bustling second city, in the north of the country.
Website: http://juniper-tree.org
Email:
Tel: ++ 66 53 140914 (THAILAND)

Le Rucher Ministries

Le Rucher Ministries offers various Member Care services, including Debriefing (group retreats and individual) and training in Basic Debriefing and Crisis & Trauma Peer Response for member care providers, both at their centre in France and on the field.
Website: www.lerucher.org
Email:
Tel: ++33 970 40 52 89 (FRANCE)

MemCare by Radio

This is a ministry of Trans World Radio that provides a daily 15 minute program that is designed for Christians working in isolated or restricted situations. Areas covered include Central Asia, S. Europe, N. Africa and the Middle East. Current information, including frequencies, are available on their website.
Website: www.membercareradio.com
Email:

Missionary Care: Missions and Mental Health

These web pages are put together by Ron and Bonnie Koteskey. Having completed a career in teaching at Asbury College in the U.S., Dr. Ron Koteskey is a Member Care Consultant for New Hope International Ministries. Through New Hope, Ron and his wife, Bonnie, offer on-field help to independent missionaries, to missionaries whose agencies have no one designated for missionary care, and to missionaries who would prefer talking with someone outside their agencies. Their website also has many good materials for missionaries about pastoral issues including several ebooks that you can download.
Website: www.missionarycare.com
Email:
Tel: ++ 1 859 858 3436 (USA)

Missionary Outreach Support Services

MOSS provide support and resources to Christian families throughout the world engaged in ministry. This is accomplished through their web site, which discusses common psychological struggles, provides private email consultations for missionaries and their families, and links to other relevant agencies or information.
Website: www.missionaryoutreach.net

Mission Encouragement Trust

MET offer on-the-field encouragement to missionaries through visits and retreats. At every retreat a loving atmosphere is created to encourage and inspire spiritual revitalisation and replenishment. Each missionary will enjoy the rich fellowship and encouragement of fellow missionaries as well as precious personal times of seeking God’s face. Each one is assured of a personal and warm welcome. The quality of personal service and comfort, together with the restful surroundings, ensures each returns to their location of service both renewed and refreshed in body, mind, soul and spirit. Under the leadership of Jan Rowland and Mintie Nel, Directors of MET, an excellent seasoned staff will daily facilitate times of Biblical meditation, prayer, teaching and worship song. Every afternoon MET offers personal relaxation time with the option of benefiting from one to one debriefing and / or counselling.
Website: http://met-uk.btck.co.uk
Email:
Tel: 01903 500464

Mobile Member Care Team

Mobile Member Care Team (MMCT) is a cooperative, inter-mission ministry that provides training, consultation, referral and direct crisis response for missionaries on the field. 
MMCT exists to strengthen the mission community for healthy, loving service in the midst of challenge, change and crisis through a ministry of equipping, preserving and restoring missionaries.
MMCT-WA was launched in May 2000 and was located in Abidjan , Côte d'Ivoire from that time until December 2002 when the civil war forced them to relocate. They are now centrally located in Accra, Ghana and serve the 14 countries from Senegal to Nigeria .
The team also responds to crises by providing early intervention, assessment, referral and consultation to peer responders and mission leaders.
Website: www.mmct.org
Tel: ++ 233 21 77 48 82 or 233 24 77 93 36 (GHANA)

MTW Europe Member Care

Links to Member Care resources.
Website: http://mtwemc.wordpress.com

Narramore Christian Foundation

NCF is a US based non-profit Christian organization serving people throughout the world. It is dedicated to the prevention and solution of human problems through literature, radio, the world-wide web, training seminars and counseling. The Foundation sends Christian psychologists overseas to conduct seminars and provide intensive short-term counseling for missionaries who have recently undergone a severe crisis or trauma.
Website: www.ncfliving.org
Tel: ++ 1 626 821 8400 (USA)

Nephesh Care

Ernst & Lisbeth Hunziker offer various membercare services to missionaries and mission agencies. They are both trained counsellors and can offer pastoral care, marriage counselling, debriefing, on-line counselling, coaching, mentoring, mediation and help in re-entry.
Website: www.nepheshcare.ch
Email:
Tel: ++ 79 257 60 37 (SWITZERLAND)

RESAM (Réseau de Soutien au Ministère), France

RESAM (Réseau de Soutien au Ministère = Ministry Support Network) is a relatively new initiative developed by the Swiss and French Evangelical Alliance. It is for workers serving in French-speaking Europe. Its purpose is to help missionaries and pastors access a variety of providers and resources such as retreat houses, centres for debriefing, counsellors, mediators, organisational consultants, etc.
Website: www.resam.fr 

Services in Member Care

Services in Member Care is available to meet needs and facilitate people in cross-cultural ministry.  The main focus is on providing help to small missions groups, churches and individuals with selection and screening of candidates, training for small groups and debriefing those returning from ministry either on home assignment or at the end of an assignment. Please contact Susan Chalmers for further details.
Website: www.servicesinmemcare.org
Email:
Tel: 01777 707054

The Well, Thailand

The Well is a Christian Member Care Center which promotes the well-being and effectiveness of Christian workers and organizations, as well as other Member Care providers in Chiang Mai and Asia. The Well’s services include debriefing, counseling and pastoral care, leadership and organizational consultation, conflict resolution, and teambuilding. The Well also offers seminars and workshops related to these topics.
Website: http://thewellcm.com
Email:
Tel: ++ 66 53 246 801 (THAILAND)

WITS International

Walking In Their Shoes (WITS) ministry, based in the USA, began in early 1999 to provide on-site care for Christians working overseas. This includes tent makers and independent workers as well as those sent by agencies or denominations. They are available to all without charge and will meet with them at their request wherever they are in the world. Services include providing confidential psychological and spiritual counseling and support.
Website: www.witsinternational.com
Email: info@witsinternational.com
Tel: ++ 1 616 844 3360 (USA)

Bridge Builders

Bridge Builders offers training and consultancy on areas such as: handling conflict, running meetings, decision-making, team-building and mediation skills.  Bridge Builders provides mediation services and coordinates a network of Christian mediators, for all Christian churches and denominations in Britain.  Bridge Builders serves in the ministry of peacemaking and reconciliation, seeking to transform life within the church, and is a programme of the London Mennonite Centre.
Website: www.menno.org.uk/BB
Email:
Tel: 0845 4500 214 or 020 8340 8775

Claybury International

Claybury International serves the Church by offering encouragement, healing and resources designed to positively benefit Christian leaders in their own lives and relationships. Services include training, consultancy, counselling and resourcing.
Website: www.claybury.org
Email:
Tel: 0845 4340021

Eaglesrest

Eaglesrest seeks to provide a safe retreat center for ASIAN Pastors and their families. (While western missionaries have many resources, there is very little provided for native pastoral workers in Asia). They provide respite, counseling, medical/dental clinics and child care/programs.
Email: alafam_eaglesrest@fastmail.com.au

Good News Family Care

GNFC believe that the steady erosion of our 'quality of life' is a direct consequence of the breakdown of Family Life and the abandonment of traditional family values. Evidence for this can be seen everywhere: Domestic violence, Dysfunctional Families, Abuse, Drug and Alcohol dependency, Anti-social Behaviour and Homelessness. GNFC want to see this trend reversed. Their stated aims are: (1) to encourage a return to Christian family values, and (2) to provide a 'safety net' for families in distress. They provide supported accommodation for mothers and children, and support and counselling for the whole family. They also have a small Recovery Unit where mothers with drug or alcohol related problems can stay with their children as they address their problems.
Website: www.gnfc.org.uk
Email:
Tel: 01298 24761

Mission Mentoring

Are you an emerging leader in mission who would value a mentoring partnership ? Are you an experienced leader who could mentor a newer mission leader ?  Panahpur trust are running an exciting mission mentoring scheme to grow leaders in mission and are looking for leaders to be volunteer mentors and more recent leaders who would value being mentored. Hear what some of our pilot participants said about the scheme ‘Very helpful for me personally and professionally, I would highly recommend it’ Valuable and insightful’ ‘Excellent’ Comprehensive on line training and resources are provided as well as central support from a professional leadership coach.
Website: www.missionmentoring.org
Email:

The Way ... Addiction Support

The Way seeks to provide support, training and advice to people suffering the effects of addiction/obsessive behaviour. They can give one off training sessions to organizations developing awareness around addiction; or substances commonly used in addiction; or training and support to organizations developing policies at work, for instance alcohol at work policies. Whatever the addiction or reason for visiting this site they are available to discuss your individual requirements and can tailor their services and costs to meet them.
Website: www.theway.uk.com
Email:

2-in-2-1

This is a site all about Marriage. There is information on courses, advice and articles about all aspects of marriage, whether you're needing help in some areas or just interested in keeping your marriage 'alive' and 'on track'.
Website: www.2-in-2-1.co.uk