Dr. Hale’s practical wisdom is here freely offered to the missionary-to-be and others interested in missions–wisdom hard-earned in Nepal on everything from calling to raising a missionary family to cross-cultural communication. Now revised to include perspectives on the realities of the changing missionary force and the challenges of bonding with a new culture in an increasingly globalized and technologically connected world, this edition of On Being a Missionary addresses current issues while maintaining the wit and warmth of the man who first challenged us with his perspectives on being a missionary.
                                                                                      522 pages

Table of Contents

Preface from Thomas Hale
Preface from Gene Daniels

    1. Why Missionaries?
    2. The Call
    3. Preparation
    4. Into the New World
    5. Making the Transcultural Connection
    6. Nepal 1, Visitors 0
    7. Kings, Cooks, Beggars, Saints
    8. A Palace or a Mud Hut?
    9. Thoughts for New Missionaries— and old ones
    10. Sin and Interpersonal Conflict
    11. Resolving Interpersonal Conflict
    12. Fitting into the Team
    13. Keeping the Focus
    14. The Major Mission Ministries
    15. More Recent Developments
    16. Stress
    17. Prayer and the Holy Spirit
    18. Singles and Doubles
    19. Missionary Children
    20. Home Assignment

Afterword
Bibliography


Biography
In 1970, Thomas Hale and his wife, Cynthia, went to Nepal to work for their first twelve years at a rural mission hospital in the village of Amp Pipal. Subsequently they moved to Kathmandu, Nepal's capital city, where they have continued their work with the mission. Recently Cynthia took a position as an associate professor at Nepal's only medical school, and Tom has written a one-volume commentary on the New Testament, first in Nepali and subsequently in English for translation into other languages.