Product Description
How to Manage the Stress of Re-entry
- Edited Margaret Burt & Peter Farthing
- 144 pages.
- Published 1996
"Why do I feel so depressed? I should be happy to be back with my family."
"I don't fit in anymore. This doesn't feel like home."
"No one wants to listen. They are nice, but they are all so busy, and no one wants to listen to my story."
Comments like these typify the difficulties experienced when Christian workers return from overseas service. Re-entry is seldom easy.
It is, after all a grief to leave people we have shared our lives with. It is a shock to re-enter a culture which is radically different ﾡﾪ even if it is "home". And because serving in another culture which is radically different ﾡﾪ even if it is "home". And because serving in another culture has changed us, it isn't easy to fit back into the old surroundings.
How then can we best manage re-entry?
Crossing Cultures brings together the insights of seventeen people who have been through re-entry ﾡﾪ and survived. In easy to read chapters and brief personal stories, they share their insights and offer practical suggestions which will help you to cross cultures.
"Reading through this down to earth handbook...will prove a healing and helpful experience for anyone who has shared the adventure of serving cross-culturally." General Paul A. Rader
