This course aims to:

 

• Give participants a broad notion that it becomes the Comprehensive Missionary Care and stimulate their hearts to practice it.

• Share the heart of God in relation to this theme so important to do missions in the manner of God.

• Deliver practical tools of what to do with the CIM, being able to adapt to the reality of each base, agency or mission field.

• Generate preventive actions regarding the missionary life cycle.

• To contribute so that both the one sent and the missionary are effective in fulfilling their task.

 

Some topics we see in this course are:

 

• Overview of the CIM or Biblical Base of the CiM or Pastoral Qualities.

• 7 areas of the CIM or 7 structures that define and compose the integral care that each worker needs

• Management of stress and crisis o Given the rising tide of difficult situations, it is essential to manage stress and crisis in the cross-cultural context as an agency and missionary.

• Lifting support team o We will discuss how to build a team that not only provides financial support, but also covers other areas of missionary life.

• Singles and families on missions o The mission is treated from the perspective of singles and family giving a broad notion of what each reality means.

• Missionary life cycle: o This cycle is composed of three stages that will be addressed in the course: 1. Preparation 2. Field 3. Return

• Trauma Debriefing: o This tool gives us notions of how to accompany a crisis process of both an individual or a group during the first hours of the crisis.  Shock and cultural stress o Tool is given how to handle these inherent stages in the work of a missionary.

• Reentry and return o Here we discuss the importance of preparing to enter or return to a new or own culture.

• And others ...