Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission, Paperback

In Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission we learn about how teams come together with varying expectations of what team life should be. The authors offer ideas and positive practices of valuing one another based on a survey from 289 missionaries, representing 12 mission agencies. These practices not only build unity and understanding of each other, but enable greater effectiveness in ministry. Read this and have your agency make moves to be better prepared for the increasingly single next generation of field workers and take action for team effectiveness now.

This book:

• Highlights 16 differences between the perspectives of married and single people.
• Offers helpful tools to address the challenges and enhance strengths.
• Asks applicational questions that would initiate dialogue among invested parties.
• Addresses the necessity of releasing physical family members to follow God's leading.
• Points out differences in organizational policies & practices based upon marital status.

About author(s):Sue Eenigenburg is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and Lancaster Bible College and Graduate School. She has been in cross-cultural ministry since 1986 and is currently Director of Women's Ministry for Christar. Sue is married to Don. Their clan include four children, their spouses and twelve grandchildren. She is the author of Screams in the Desert and More Screams, Different Deserts. Sue co-authored Expectations and Burnout: Women Surviving the Great Commission.

Suzy Grumelot's degrees are in bible and missions. She has served with World Team in urban church planting in France for the past 30 years. In 2012, with French partners, a historic new church was birthed in central Paris. In addition to discipling women and overseeing Bible studies, Suzy is involved with networking, prayer, and mentoring of both new believers and new church planters. She also serves on the executive team of Shoulder-to-Shoulder. She enjoys reading, listening to music, long walks, deep fellowship, and time with her nieces and nephews.