Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission - Softcover

Eenigenburg, Sue; Grumelot, Suzy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1645082164 ISBN 13: 9781645082163

Publisher: William Carey Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

In Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission we learn about how teams come together with varying expectations of what team life should be. The authors offer ideas and positive practices of valuing one another based on a survey from 289 missionaries, representing 12 mission agencies. These practices not only build unity and understanding of each other, but enable greater effectiveness in ministry. Read this and have your agency make moves to be better prepared for the increasingly single next generation of field workers and take action for team effectiveness now.

This book:

• Highlights 16 differences between the perspectives of married and single people.
• Offers helpful tools to address the challenges and enhance strengths.
• Asks applicational questions that would initiate dialogue among invested parties.
• Addresses the necessity of releasing physical family members to follow God's leading.
• Points out differences in organizational policies & practices based upon marital status.

About this title

About the Author

Sue Eenigenburg is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and Lancaster Bible College and Graduate School. She has been in cross-cultural ministry since 1986 and is currently Director of Women's Ministry for Christar. Sue is married to Don. Their clan include four children, their spouses and twelve grandchildren. She is the author of Screams in the Desert and More Screams, Different Deserts. Sue co-authored Expectations and Burnout: Women Surviving the Great Commission.

Suzy Grumelot's degrees are in bible and missions. She has served with World Team in urban church planting in France for the past 30+ years. In 2012, with French partners, a historic new church was birthed in central Paris. In addition to discipling women and overseeing Bible studies, Suzy is involved with networking, prayer, and mentoring of both new believers and new church planters. She also serves on the executive team of Shoulder-to-Shoulder. She enjoys reading, listening to music, long walks, deep fellowship, and time with her nieces and nephews.

Review

Suzy and Sue show us our divergent perspectives as single and married team members and ask us to carefully reflect on several powerful questions as we serve together. --Brent McHugh, international director, Christar International

Ministry team relationships are especially susceptible to the bruises and pains of "missing one another" when assumptions are made about others or expectations go unmet from the team. Suzy and Sue provide us with a framework for slowly addressing relational necessities. --David Riddell, international director, World Team

Singles and married people and their children are all critical partners in missions. There are inevitable tensions which must be dealt with biblically, sensitively, and regularly. --Steve Saint, founder of ITEC, author of three books, and son of Nate Saint

Edition details

• Publisher: William Carey Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1645082164
• ISBN 13: 9781645082163
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 210