A study analyses how culture influences the burnout experience and implications for member care.

Burnout among mission workers is on the rise. The repercussions are far costlier to the team, family, marriage, and ministry, and negatively impact the gospel witness.

Far too often in the mission world, we mistake burnout as the height of service to God, but effective service cannot be done by a burnt out, shrivelled body, mind, or soul.

Opportunities for complaint can also be opportunities to bear good witness and improve our relationships with those around us.

We should be realistic about contributing factors of burnout, sensitive to underlying stressors, and proactive in our care for one another.

Despair, distraction and compromise are three of them.

Every 40 seconds, one person commits suicide worldwide, the WHO reports. Christian psychiatrist Pablo Martínez analyses this difficult issue.

Church planter Ed Doepel on the meaning of success in ministry according to the Bible.

Church leaders are usually “at the limit of their emotional and spiritual resources”, says José Hutter, theologian and pastor in Spain. A national seminar will address the challenges of Christian leadership. 

Doctor Henryk Wieja defines stress and burnout, and gives a biblical perspective to cope with it when it is harmful.