A self-assessment tool for helping missionaries achieve and maintain personal health in key areas of life and ministry

We believe that this document will encourage you to stay healthy by pointing toward some of the most basic cornerstones of effective and sustainable life and ministry. With an integrated self-check chart, we also hope to give you a tool (like a mirror) which will help you to immediately recognize “warning signs” in your life, to identify areas that are not healthy, and to reveal issues that need support or correction.

Here you can download the document: MARKS OF EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE LIFE AND MINISTRY

These resources are intended to help us grow and become more like Jesus. If you know more helpful resources, please tell us: mailto:HealthyMarks@gmx.net

• Bible Study Tools: Growing deeper in the Word
• S.O.A.P.: Bible reading and journalling
• Spiritual Gifts Test: to help you find out what your spiritual gifts are
• Helps for Day Alone with God: a guide developed for the Member Orientation Program
• Broken-Down House: book by Paul Tripp
• A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble: by Paul Tripp
• Personal Growth: SEND U wiki resources

• The Daniel Plan: offers practical solutions to improve your health physically, spiritually, relationally, and emotionally
• Nutrition Action Guide: objective research on modern trends in food with information on fast foods, prepared foods, diets, etc.
• Carnivora: 17 essential nutrients in their natural state working synergistically to support the natural healing process

• ProQOL: is the most commonly used measure of the negative and positive effects of helping others who experience suffering and trauma. The ProQOL has sub-scales for compassion satisfaction, burnout and compassion fatigue.
• CHOPS: grid/chart to help address and deal with stress
• Missionary Training International: debriefing & renewal retreat
• Missionary Care: resources for missions and mental health
• Member Care: SEND U wiki resources

• Couple Checkup: a scientifically-based assessment that identifies relationship strengths and weaknesses across key relationship areas
• SHARE: an organization committed to helping with educational and developmental needs for expatriate families
• Marriage & MKs: SEND U wiki resources

• Cupid is a Procrastinator: Making Sense of the Unexpected Single Life by Kate Hurley

• Team building page on SEND U wiki: lots of team resources
• Organizational trust survey: to be done by an entire team, concerning team leadership
• Self-trust survey: to be done by individuals to gauge how they are influencing the health environment of their team

• Free Aptitude Test for Strengths and Weaknesses
• StrengthsFinder 2.0: Strengths assessment
• Managing Those Called.docx: short story (fiction) written by Dr. Ken Harder about a mission leader who discovers the value of intrinsic motivation
• Employee Passion: article by the Ken Blanchard Companies on their research into what makes a person committed to his work
• The Three Signs of a Miserable Job - Q&A with Patrick Lencioni.: Lencioni talks about his book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
• Intrinsic Motivation at Work: What Really Drives Employee Engagement: book by Kenneth Thomas
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us: book by Dan Pink, see also Ted Talk by Dan Pink

• SEND U wiki: provides a place and a forum for sharing resources, training opportunities, and ideas broadly within SEND
• IGP: instructions for developing an Individual Growth Plan
• L&O: specific helps in the area of language and orientation
• Biblical training: world-class online Christian education courses on a broad range of theological and practical topics

• I've Got Your Back: Biblical Principles for Leading and Following Well (Leadership Parables) by James Galvin.
• Handouts from the SEND U workshop on Becoming an Effective Leader of a Team
• Situational Leadership by Hersey and Blanchard
• DiSC profile assessment: Understand and appreciate the styles of the people you work with.
• Leadership resources: SEND U wiki resources

• SEND U wiki: partner development page
• Donor Manager: Windows-based program for tracking donor information
• TntMPD: Windows/Mac-based program for tracking donor information
• Media tools to raise awareness: blogs (Wordpress, Blogspot), Twitter, Facebook