Veteran mission professionals Steve Hoke and Bill Taylor offer a practical guide for preparing for intercultural missions. They provide resources for personal spiritual preparation as well as crosscultural skills and hands - on missionary training.

OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.

After the initial excitement of homecoming wears off, adjusting to life at home is tough for returned missionaries and their parents! This guide helps returned missionaries focus on eternal principles and apply lessons learned on the mission to overcome challenges. Missionaries also need their parents' help to adjust, and each chapter includes specific suggestions for parents. Working together as a team, missionaries and their parents can make the transfer home an uplifting and faith-promoting experience.

Thousands of Christians are fascinated by Mission work and so many have become actively involved in different fields of the world, as one type of Missionary or the other but many do not know exactly the dynamics of missions. This handbook sets out to equip intending Missionaries, experienced Missionaries and Mission Managers with practical strategies that have been put to profitable use for more than two decades, across five Continents. Preparatory, technical, spiritual, operational, tactical and strategic issues relating to Missions and Missionaries are discussed with great insight.Every Christian, every fellowship, every Church, every Christian organisation, every Ministry, and every Missiologist should have this handbook in their libraries. It's about time to get missions right.