Serving as Senders is formatted for individual and group study. The eight study sessions have sections on:

Serving as Senders is also available as a six-hour live seminar. Contact Emmaus Road, international, 7150 Tanner Court, San Diego CA 92111 USA. (619) 292-7020

Scripture quotations are paraphrases by the author.

The opening stories in Chapters Four and Five are adapted from In Other Words January 1977 and October 1990 issues respectively and are used by permission from Wycliffe Bible Translators. The opening story in Chapter Eight is adapted from an article by the pastor of Lake Murray Evangelical Free Church and is used by permission.

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Printed in the United States of America ISBN 1-880185-00-8

Dedication

To the many cross-cultural workers and their support teams out of whose experiences come the pages of this book.

Acknowledgements

Who would have thought such a little book would bring such la-bor? Yet who would have thought of the joy it also brings? The coaching team was great! The first acknowledgement must go to the Holy Spirit, our inspiration and comfort. Second, to my wife Yvonne who often critiqued and rewrote so forcefully that I tried to get her namee on the cover. To my brother Paul who didn’t laugh when he read through the first draft and used his editing skills to meticulously comb through the final manuscript To Alice Lovers who coordinated and wrote much of the Sacramento church’s case study. To the friends of El Adobe Trust who funded the first printing. And even to our kids, for, as our son Hymn pointed out, our experiences in raising them have built into us what it took to stay with this project to its completion)

And finally and foremost. `unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think: unto Him be glory throughout all ages" (Ephesians 3:20).