For the Joy: 21 Missionary Mother Stories of Real Life & Faith
Ebook
Fear, Faith, & Figuring It Out
Every child is different, but mothers are very much the same around the world—the same worries and fears, guilt, and joys. Dive in to For the Joy and laugh and cry with 21 Australian missionary mothers as they share stories of raising kids in both remote far-flung places and some of the most populated cities in the world. These inspiring stories will resonate in the heart of the reader as fear, faith, and figuring it out come together in page-turning reality.
Stories include:
• home-schooling while living in a bus
• navigating the toddler years as a “third culture mum”
• raising a child with special needs
• recovering from anxiety on the field
• giving birth in a foreign hospital
• the grief of losing your family to persecution ... and more!
Honestly written, raw in emotion, sad and joyful in equal measure, this collection of stories offers insight into the complexities of parenting children while serving God no matter where you call home.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1 Adventures in Arnhem Land
2 Press Close
3 Missional Living as a Mum
4 Covered by Love
5 My Journey through Anxiety
6 Cracked Jars of Clay
7 The Most Ordinary Job in the World
8 Third Culture Mum
9 Confessions from an Imperfect Missionary Mum
10 No Place Like Home
11 Lost and Found
12 The Llama Ate My Homework
13 France Beyond the Postcards
14 Living with Racism
15 When a Seed Falls
16 Rabuna Saidu Tanina: God Help Us
17 Living in a Sensory Jungle
18 Giving Birth on the Mission Field
19 Raising Hunters in the Bush
20 The Boarding Life
21 Re-entry
Author Biographies
I found myself enormously challenged while reading this collection of missionary mums’ stories. I am grateful for the opportunity, through this book, to engage with my heavenly Father about my commitment to His mission to take the good news of Jesus to a lost world—no matter the risk, the hardship, the suffering, the tears. I am also thankful that I now have a much greater understanding of what the missionary mums that I regularly partner with in prayer are experiencing on the field.
-Lesley Ramsey, editor of What Women Really Need
Whenever I visit Bible colleges where missionaries train, women want to know what it is like to be a mother on the mission field … this is a set of stories that need to be told.
-Evelyn Hibbert, Author of Leading Multicultural Teams
For the Joy is a powerful compilation of honest hearts. Be prepared to cry some, to be comforted, affirmed in your calling and challenged to continue on in Great Commission living. I highly commend it to you.
-Robynn Bliss, author of Expectations and Burnout: Women Surviving the Great Commission
- Title: For the Joy: 21 Missionary Mother Stories of Real Life & Faith
- Authors: S. L. Russell, Miriam Chan
- Publisher: William Carey Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781645082231, 9781645082200, 1645082202, 1645082237
- Resource ID: LLS:9781645082231
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-20T01:48:59Z
Miriam Chan is a returned missionary mother and remains passionate about missions and being a mother to her two elementary-aged children. Since returning to Sydney, Australia, she has worked with a mission agency in preparing others to serve cross-culturally. She enjoys wearing multiple hats during the week as a university counsellor, ministry wife, cavoodle-lover, and Sunday School teacher.
Sophia Russell has been helping other people tell their stories, both personally and professionally, for most of her adult life. Living in Sydney with her husband and two children, she works as a freelance content writer and journalist. She loves books, good coffee, great conversations, and serving with her local church.