Hundreds of missionaries go home each year due to stress affecting themselves and/or their families. Hundreds of others remain on the field but struggle with reduced effectiveness from bearing the burden of stress. The Missionary Family: Managing Stress Effectively provides sound biblical and practical principles to help missionaries and their family members manage stress and become more effective in ministry. An integrated approach, these principles touch causes, effects, and management techniques in each part of the human being—spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral.Dr. Jere Phillips has over forty years of ministry, including experience as a state-based missions administrator, pastor, and extensive overseas service on six continents. He is also a stress survivor. Motivated by two life-threatening illnesses, he began an intense study of stress management, which he has assimilated with over twenty years of interaction with missionaries in North America and internationally. One missionary writes, "This book might just save a marriage, a career, or a person's calling."