From Mission to Mission

"I would strongly suggest that a returning       missioner make this workshop. The program  itself is developmental and progressive and the opportunity to share with other returning       missioners helps to lessen some of the 'alienation' one feels on returning home."

"I spent 28 years as a missionary in Tanzania.  Returning here was not easy.  I felt like a stranger.  I attended the FROM MISSION TO MISSION workshop.  It helped me connect with other returning missionaries and helped me to see how I could continue being a missioner here in the USA, making the connection between mission there and mission here."


"It is priceless to have the opportunity to share and discuss these experiences with other people that actually understand you in some special way; that most people back home will not relate to you in."

"August was especially difficult as my companion sisters boarded an airplane to return to Sierra Leone where I had lived for the past five years.  If I was no longer in Africa, was I still a missioner?  My FROM MISSION TO MISSION workshop helped me know that the richness I had experienced on the continent of Africa was a gift to whatever ministry I pursued in the States."   

I feel the support system and process has helped me put things in a realistic focus. This has been the best self-starter - in a caring environment."


"… the FROM--Mission to Mission workshop experience was a time of special blessing… After returning from Ghana in Africa. I too had many dark days and even doubts about where the Lord might be, or better, where he wanted me! …. The workshop helped me to integrate my foreign missionary experience with my present reality…. I would strongly encourage anyone who has spent time in another culture, to take the time to participate in a FROM--Mission to Mission workshop…."

"I did appreciate it [the workshop] very much.  After I returned here I was rereading some of my notes.  I felt as though I had many x-rays taken during that time.  Then all through the program they were hung up in front of the light for all to read my problems.  I would have never opened up like I did if I hadn't know that most of the people there were suffering like I was.  I thanked my Community for giving me the chance to attend this.  I spoke very highly of the whole thing."

"This workshop helped me face up to reality and helped me acknowledge a lot of emotions that I didn't know were there. It made me hopeful about letting the experience grow with me. It helped me to be more focused on my new mission here."

"I go out from here further along in the process than I was when I arrived - and that feels good. I have met wonderful people I did not know before and I feel supported by them.  I feel assured that I am normal. Now I know that it is OK that I am still in process.  Now I know that it is alright that I don't feel I fit in the fast lane, active, rush-about American way of life."

"I will still miss Bolivia, but I now have Bolivia as a happy place in my heart."