The Rock and the Hard Place Blog

A multi-chapter resource by Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, Esq. and Dr. Brent Lindquist about ensuring the optimal experience for children in the missions field.

Dr. Lindquist continues the dialogue with Theresa in how to best care for children on the mission field.

Dr. Lindquist introduces an approach to ensuring the optimal experience for children in the missions field, in anticipation of an upcoming fall seminar on the topic!

Theresa's response to Dr. Lindquist, including details on how missions organizations and families can work together to ensure the safest environment for children traveling into the mission field.

In a guest post by Scott Brawner, he lists several signs to look for when gauging whether to stay or to go when things get heated in another country– particularly as it relates to recent events in Nicaragua. 

If an employee has a mental health-related disability, when and how can an employer require medical examinations and how should the employer approach this problem? A recent case gives some insight.

If an employee has a mental health-related disability, when and how can an employer require medical examinations and how should the employer approach this problem? A recent case gives some insight.

A multi-chapter resource by Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, Esq. and Dr. Brent Lindquist about the issue of risk management and the vulnerability of missions for where their people are, and what they do.

Now that we've considered the theological implications, let's turn to some of the questions you raised, Brent.

You raise several questions. The only one I'm going to get to today relates to how to prepare missionaries to go overseas—what kind of vision statement or consent to danger and difficulty would we recommend? Perhaps the most practical approach would be to have a waiver more like the legal documents that we're familiar with, but have a paragraph in the waiver refer to the missionary's own vision statement and acceptance of risk as part of that vision statement. Then each missionary could explain what he or she hopes to accomplish, why he or she is called, and why (or whether) such a calling is worth encountering disease, violence, or other disasters.