Member Care Staff Resources
Australian Resources for Member Care Workers
South Pacific Member Care Network:
For more information contact the coordinator here. Karen is available to answer questions and help connect you to resources so feel free to drop her an email.
Biannual Conference with International speakers and workshops covering current issues.
South Pacific Member Care Network Newsletter – to be added to this email contact
Facebook group – this is a closed group available to those working in this area. It is a place to share what is happening, ask questions and get help.
Missions Interlink website
Information about the following member care events can be seen on this link.
MAST (Missions Interlink Advanced Security Training)
Missionary Re-entry retreats
Cross-cultural workers retreat
MK (TCK) camps
Transition gatherings
Helping professionals (if you need to send your people to a counsellor, psych etc) can be found here.
You will find qualified Christian psychologists, social workers, spiritual directors, counsellors, and other professionals who have been recommended for missionaries here.
The Red Sea Member Care and Counselling Centre
This centre exists to provide care and counselling for cross-cultural workers. As a newly established centre in Cairns, they can provide counselling and debriefing services. Other services will be added as the centre develops.
Member care networks also meet in various states. For details contact Karen here.
Other worthwhile courses include: Peace Wise Training
Global Resources to help in your Member Care journey
GMCN Facebook group is a private group which we would encourage all member care workers to join.
The YouTube channel is run by the GMCN coordinator Harry Hoffmann. This channel is created to help Member Care beginners around the world make sense of Member Care through easy-to-follow inputs.
On these pages, you will find resources, updates, links and people working in the realm of member care around the world.
Courses include a "Member Care Foundations 1" course that all those new to member care should do.
You will:
Receive a ‘Certificate of Completion” at the end, by Harry Hoffmann and by the Global Member Care Network.
Learn the basics of Member Care (over 7000 people went through this course already)
Be asked to process the content by filling out personal reflection questions after each lesson, to guarantee thorough online participation. Those will be checked by the Content Educators.
The Member Care Foundations Course includes:
Topics such as: What is Member Care / Forms of Sending / Contextualization / Member Care Models / Resilience / Spirituality and God / Self-Care / Friends and Family / Church / People Helpers / Professionals and more.
28 videos
28 worksheets
28 Processing questions
Certificate of completion
Workbook as one document.
Subscribe to the GMCN newsletter
Subscribe to the Member Care courses
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