Facilitators: Carl Kresge, Ken Guenther
In the first few sessions, we will emphasize the importance of the participant's walk with God as a missionary, or maintaining and nurturing an ever deepening intimacy with God while serving as a missionary. Then we will spend several sessions practicing different spiritual disciplines that can become a regular part of your daily “Quiet Time” with God and help you to focus your attention and hear what God is saying to you. These sessions conclude with a Day Alone with God scheduled during the second week - an opportunity to practice more intensely what you have been learning during these sessions.

1. Remind participants of how critical their walk with God is to their success and fruitfulness as missionaries and have them do a self-evaluation.
2. Motivate participants to commit to making intimacy with Christ their number one priority, to resolve to be like Mary (rather than Martha), and to develop a plan for how they will do so.
3. Provide participants with practical suggestions for how to nurture intimacy with Christ on a daily basis.
4. Practice some of the spiritual disciplines, particularly Bible reading, journaling and prayer.
5. Help participants prepare for a meaningful Day Alone with God.

• Helps for Day Alone with God (pdf)
• Helps for Day Alone with God (Word)
• My plan for my Day Alone with God (Google Docs)
• My plan for my Day Alone with God (Word)
• SOAP method
• FAQ about the SOAP method of journalling
• Spiritual Formation handout (Ken)
• Carl's PowerPoint Presentation

• Who feeds the missionary? a blog series on the SEND U blog by Ken Guenther. You can find it as a single document starting with the first article here.
• Godly Servants: Discipleship and Spiritual Formation for Missionaries > Amazon link to book by David Teague. You can read Ken's review on Amazon.com
• The Divine Mentor: Growing your Faith as you sit at the Feet of the Saviour > Amazon link to book by Wayne Cordeiro, the author of the Life Journal.
• Online journal of SOAP journal
• Life Journal Bible Reading Plan
• Five Ways to Flourish in Journaling > article recommended by Chris Jones

• Piper, A Hunger for God
• Priorities of a Missionary
• Piper, A Hunger for God excerpts from chapters 1-3
• Pray for One Another
• Piper, When I Don't Desire God
• Suggestions for Nurturing Intimacy with Christ

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