Trauma Part 1

Trauma Trauma is all around us here in East Africa. We may suffer one ourselves or be called upon to assist others caught up in one. So it pays to be prepared. Traumata are events that overwhelm a person’s ability to cope. Traumatic events can be sudden and unexpected...

Moment by Moment

Frank C. Laubach wrote many letters to his father during his missionary years in the Philippines. Excerpts have been gathered into a little, but powerful, book – Letters by a Modern Mystic. Dallas Willard writes in the foreword, “You hold in your hands a...

Dealing with Grief & Loss

Dealing with Grief & Loss Tumaini Tidbits #8 DEALING WITH GRIEF AND LOSS When there is a death in a family or a death of a close friend or fellow worker, there are healthy ways of dealing with grief so that one can get through the sadness and continue on with a...

New Years Resolution

New Years Resolution Tumaini Tidbits #7 Have you made your New Year’s Resolution yet? I must confess that I usually don’t do that anymore because I don’t want to set myself up to be disappointed. The trouble with New Year’s Resolutions is that a year is a very long...

Anger

Anger Tumaini Articles #5 I’m sure most everyone would agree that anger is undisputedly the most difficult emotion to deal with. Different cultures deal with it in different ways. I spent 19 years in Japan, where anger is seldom expressed, and I was raised in New...

Missionary Kids

Missionary Kids Tumaini Articles #4 At Tumaini we often help missionary families who are dealing with some kind of crisis, trauma, or tensions. So Missionary Kid’s (MKs) are often the focus of our help just because they are part of the family. Missionary kids or TCKs...