Stress Busters for Missionaries: Tools to Balance Your Life and Reclaim Your Peace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781796684841)

From the daily hassles to the catastrophic events, this book will empower you to successfully de-stress your life and recover your sanity. This book will empower you to successfully de-stress your life and recover your sanity. You'll discover easy -to-use skills enabling you to gain greater freedom from life's ups and down. In today's fast-paced, overworked world, stress is all around us: the economy, finances, raising children, health, job, school, family or lack of it, elderly parents, divorce, tragedy, debt, death, and conflict. This is not an ordinary book about stress. This unique workbook contains practical, biblical tools for attaining spiritual, emotional, physical, and interpersonal balance. It is filled with powerful personal stories to illustrate principles, thought-provoking questions for individual or group study., Bible studies, self-assessments, and easy-to-apply strategies to develop a balanced lifestyle. As you explore the timeless connection between the biblical principles and this practical, life-enhancing approach, you'll gain valuable solution to cope with your own stress, as well as help friends and family.The Toolbox for Effective Missionaries equips missionaries to change lives for the Kingdom.Missionaries face unique challenges. The powerful biblical strategies in this series have been proven worldwide for over 40 years with more than 40,000 believers in 80 countries. Stress-from daily hassles to catastrophic events-is an inevitable part of the missionary experience. This practical workbook will empower you to gain greater freedom from life's ups and downs, using easy-to-apply strategies."This book is like cool water to thirsty souls " -Dr. Kelly O'Donnell, Consulting Psychologist, Member Care Associates, Inc."Solidly based on God's Word... helps readers maintain a healthy perspective even facing cross-cultural stressors." -Kenneth Royer, D.Min, Director of Missionary Care, Pastoral Counselor, Link Care"Profoundly useful for the mission's community." -Laura Mae Gardner, D.Min, International Training Consultant, Wycliffe Bible TranslatorsThese powerful strategies have been proven worldwide. Ken and Gaylyn first tested them in their own lives and continue to use them on a regular basis. Rather than writing from a clinical perspective-although Dr. Williams, with his PhD in Human Behavior, could do that-they honestly share their personal experiences having each dealt with numerous major and minor stresses. They have trained people in Christian organizations in these methods for twenty-five years. Now they are available to you.Dr. Ken Williams is an expert in dealing with issues related to stress and its impact on our lives. He draws from a deep well as he writes having spent years as a Wycliffe missionary himself, and then as a counselor to missionaries. He combines his life experience, professional training, and academic credentials to co-author a book full of solid advice. He and daughter, Gaylyn, have teamed up to provide an excellent resource for believers who want to de-stress their lives through the application of God's Word mixed with healthy therapeutic principles. --- Bob Creson, President and CEO, Wycliffe Bible Translators USA, Inc.I recommend you take the time to read this important book. Stress can ruin your life, but Jesus offers a better way. The Biblical solutions and personal truths in this book can set your heart, mind and soul free. This book is a timely remedy for a culture consumed with pressure, over-scheduling, impossible deadlines and sleepless nights full of anxiety. Read and be restored to the life God intended. --- Gary Wilkerson, President of World ChallengeThis book was published for a general audience as All Stressed Up and Everywhere to Go The principles came from Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills. Also available as an online course or live workshop, at www.RelationshipResources.org. Contact author for quantity discounts.

Author: Ken Williams Phd, Gaylyn R. Williams
ISBN-10: 1796684848
ISBN-13: 9781796684841
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2019
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d