What is it about?
The article deals with the issue of how missionaries and Christian aid workers can adapt to cross-cultural challenges while working and serving abroad. The solution is not as simple as joining programs or short-term field experience, but a spiritual connection to the people and the location.
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Why is it important?
Many Post-Christendom missionaries experience their country of call to be an emotional graveyard. This happens when they struggle with psychological barriers to entering and even re-entering the foreign country and culture where they serve.
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This page is a summary of: Turangawaewae as the Means of Moving from Migrant to Mission Worker: Identification Strategies in Embracing the Context and the People, Mission Studies, May 2021, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341775.
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