1. Good Shepherding Promotes Resilience for Missionaries & Their Families
Brian Aho
Developing & Shepherding International

2. Stewardship of the Laborer

3. Incarnational Presence

4. Staying Power:
Resilience

5. What are We Stewarding?
The Message
The Messenger

6. Psalm 23

7. The Lord, as Our Shepherd

8. Shepherding Implications

9. Resilience
Webster’s Dictionary: the capacity of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused by compressive stress

10. Stresses & Strains
Singles
Young Couples
Families
Veterans
Returnees

11. Windows of Opportunity
Singles
Young Couples
Families
Veterans
Returnees

12. Lessons from a Sheep Farm
Eleanor & Gordon

13. Leads

14. Protects

15. Feeds

16. Cares

17. Tends the Young

18. Disciplines

19. Prevents Overgrazing

20. Duties of a Shepherd Leads Protects Feeds Cares Tends Disciplines
Prevents

21. Going After the Sheep, Especially in Times of Great Need

22. A Shepherd’s Heart vs. A Position or A Program

23. You Can’t Pay Someone to Have a Shepherd’s Heart
Not a Hired Hand:
You Can’t Pay Someone to Have a Shepherd’s Heart

24. Consistent & Ongoing Commitment

25. Misconceptions

26. Resilience is Cultivated

27. Remember: Sheep Multiply
Take Care of the Lambs

28. Feed My Sheep

29. Mark 12:28-31 NIV
28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

30. Principle of Over Flow

31. Charge: Imitate God Imitate a Shepherd Look like a Shepherd
Think like a Shepherd
Have a Shepherd’s Heart