Mission Bite #13 Challenges
Channel: Didasko Missions Academy
Date: 2024-02-21

**** Challenges - Mission Bites #13
I’m a firm believer in our need to learn from others.
So are our friends at an organization called FieldPartner (fieldpartner.org).

They recently did a survey of a hundred and thirty-seven [137] missionaries with experience in forty countries, and they gained some valuable insights from this.

The missionaries reported that some of the greatest personal challenges they faced were from these factors:

- stress and overwork,
- cultural and language barriers,
- and unexpectedly slow progress in their work.

When asked whether more training would have helped overcome these challenges, the vast majority (82%) of these missionaries responded that the training they had received for the field was either inadequate or barely adequate.

Therefore, I’d like to encourage you:
Get as much training as you can before you go to the field, and continue training once you’re on the field. It really makes a difference to how long you’ll remain there, and how effective you’ll be.

At Didasko Missions Academy we feel God has called us to develop more effective Kingdom workers. We do this by offering high-quality missions courses that are taught by experts. And by the grace of God we are able to bring these courses to you free of charge. You can do them before you leave for the field, and continue once you're on the field. We don’t want there to be any obstacles for anyone to get good training.

You can enrol for our free missionary courses at: https://www.dasko.org

https://fieldpartner.org/crossing-cultures-survey-results/