Living Uprooted Companion Workbook

By Mari Eygabroad

Living Uprooted: Encouragement for the Missionary Spouse is a missionary manual for women who want to grow in their relationship with God so they can best support their spouses on the mission field and serve others overseas well. It's the book Mari wishes she had a decade earlier, written to prepare the next missionary wife for her uniq

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cross and Lion Books
• Release date: Apr 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798988191513

Mari Eygabroad

Mari Eygabroad and her family live in Lesotho, Southern Africa. A former massage therapist, personal trainer, and physical therapist assistant, Mari planned to use these skills while serving as a missionary wife in Africa with her pilot/mechanic husband. God had a different calling. After feeling unequipped to handle many hardships her family faced in their first years overseas, she wrote Living Uprooted to better prepare other women stepping into missions. Having served ten years with Mission Aviation Fellowship, Mari and her husband use Living Uprooted and this companion workbook to help prepare new missionary women for service overseas.

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Copyright © 2023 by Mari Eygabroad. All rights reserved.

Living Uprooted Companion Workbook published by Cross and Lion Books, Federal Way, WA. 2023

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ISBN: 979-8-9881915-0-6 (Paperback)

979-8-9881915-1-3 (ePub)

Dedicated to the Lord,

to my husband, Bryan,

to our children Matthias and Isabella,

and our children in heaven, Hope, Joy, and Adia.

Contents

1. Submitting to God's Plan

2. Finding Identity in Christ

3. Information and Expectations

4. Support Raising

5. Being Uprooted

6. Your Best You

7. Time to Fly

8. Settling In

9. Living Life With Others

10. Spiritual Warfare

11. Life After Death

Closing Prayer

Thank You

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Submitting to God's Plan

Theme: Submission

After about six years of serving overseas, my husband and I sensed God moving to change our missionary service. But nothing pushed us out of the job my husband was doing or the country we served. We loved what we were doing and the people we were serving. So, we reached out to a mentor, who introduced us to the discernment process—inviting people to pray on our behalf regarding God’s direction.

My husband was offered an instructor position we believed would be a perfect fit, and we were excited to take it. We invited ten people to pray for us. When we followed up with them a few weeks later, those who had heard from God confirmed that we should take the position, yet the timing remained a mystery. Wisely, we heeded their counsel not to set a timeline but to let God lead.

Among the