Bøker av Don Mingo

2024 3rd addition - How does one find health? Have you ever considered your soul? Your soul's spiritual condition may cause you to struggle with many other issues in life.Your soul is the real you.The author shares conversations and experiences about the soul within a dozen cultures, exploring unique aspects of the soul from a personal worldview.Son Risings explores soulcare in the shadows of the Bible and other holy writings, offering helpful advice toward better soul health. Is there anything more important than your soul?

A Christian's Mental Health Guide: For Missionaries, Pastors, and Other Christians, Too is my personal health guide. I developed it over years of learning to deal with my own mental health. Challenges that arose from abuse during my childhood years, then witnessing horrendous atrocities during a twenty-two-year missionary career in Africa, added to my PTSD struggles. A moderate brain injury and recent diagnosis of FSHD-Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy makes mental health a constant challenge. In this book, I share how therapy, spirituality, family, friends and Scripture help me learn to cope with my mental health encounters.

The Cross-cultural Worker's Spiritual Survival Guide results from collaborating with dozens of cross-cultural member care workers through the Global Member Care Network. I asked these Missionary Care Providers who serve thousands of missionaries worldwide this one question: "What is the greatest spiritual neglect of missionaries that come to you for help?"The response was overwhelming. This, along with my own years of service as a missionary among the Zulu people in South Africa, and interacting with hundreds of missionaries over the years, led me to write this book.Scattered across the shores of missionary service lay ruined lives of missionaries who succumbed to the pressures, traps, and temptations that missionary life often brings. Here, I offer 14 Spiritual Survival Tips that will encourage you to serve longer, stronger, and live a spiritually healthier life. These tips may save your ministry, and perhaps your life too. This book will help you navigate the spiritual challenges that missionary life most certainly brings. As the Zulu people say, "It will help you go well, and stay well."

Missionary life is a rich experience and calling. So You Want to Be a Missionary? Essential Considerations, is the result of decades of missionary service in Africa and to missionaries. The book offers essential considerations from choosing your field of service, entering your field of service, raising children on the field, managing conflict, understanding cultures, language acquisition, and re-entry, returning home to one'spassport country. There's life-changing missionary topics covered in the book. Helpful exercises at the end of most chapters will help the reader process insights and challenges offered. So You Want to Be a Missionary? Essential Considerations seeks to better equip missionaries for the rigors and challenges workers find themselves unprepared to face during their tenures on the field. Don served with his wife Kathy for twenty-two years as missionaries in South Africa. He pastored two churches in Minnesota. Don currently serves in Member Care with Baptist Bible Fellowship to missionaries around the world. He holds an MDiv and DMin from Luther Rice University, is a trained life coach, and carries several certifications in Fire/EMS/Police Chaplaincy, Critical Incident Stress Management, Depression Recovery and Line of Duty Death.

Updated Edition - 2024 - To Hell, Back, and Beyond describes my account of being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and trying to balance that with my Christian Faith. How can a person of faith have a mental illness? After the shock of the diagnosis, through therapy and in-depth study of P.T.S.D., I developed a personal approach during therapy to managing my P.T.S.D. I use it every day and believe it will benefit others.Our traumatic experiences need not define us. They can instead propel us toward greater purpose and fulfillment.