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Through workshops, consultations and crisis response, we equip them to respond to these challenges and to help their peers through difficult times.
Workshops: • Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills• Peer Crisis Response Training• Member Care While Managing Crisis • Member Care Provider Retreat & Consultation
Consultations with Mission Leaders and Member Care Facilitators: • Addressing specific member care issues• Providing member care in times of crisis• Promoting member care networks
Crisis Response: • Psychological assessments• Crisis debriefing• Brief counseling• Referrals
We envision communities of missionaries who can withstand the many stresses and traumas of life in full-time ministry
Equipping • Preserving • Restoring
A multidisciplinary, inter-mission team with backgrounds in counseling, pastoral care, training and leadership
in cross-cultural settings.
Strengthening the mission community in West Africa for
healthy, loving service in the midst of challenge, change and crisis.
mmctmobile member care team
MMCT serves in a region with more than 10,000 Western, African, Asian and Latin American missionaries. We are supported by tax-deductible financial contributions from individuals, churches and mission organiza-tions.
Dr. Deborah Bergen, MD Consultant Psychiatrist [email protected]
Vivian Ochoa, M.A. Counselor/Trainer [email protected]
Patrick Schmidt, M.A., LPCA West Africa Regional Coordinator [email protected]
Sue Schmidt, B.A. Administrator/Trainer [email protected]
HOW TO CONTACT US
For more information, visit us at
WWW.MMCT.ORG
MMCT-WA P.O. BOX OS-3063
OSU-ACCRA, GHANA OFFICE: 233 (0) 246.09.23.15
Resident Staff: Vivian, Deb, Sue, and Patrick
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
~ an African proverb
“He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.” Ps 147:3It seems that traumatic events such as evacuation, civil war, kidnapping, car jacking, armed robbery, rape, theft, as-sault, and severe medical illness are increasingly a com-mon experience for missionaries these days. The Mobile Member Care Team exists because we believe that member care that is proactive and compassionate can help missionaries remain in effective service, even after going through crises like these.
MMCT-West Africa, serving 14 countries from their office in Accra, Ghana, is the first of several regional mobile member care teams envisioned by the MMCT International Board. Our ultimate goal is to establish Mobile Member Care Teams in strategic locations around the world, with each team providing on-the-field training and proactive member care for members of any mission group.
“Standing on the shoulders of the giants before us” is very much the case for MMCT. Blessed by the vision, experience and wise counsel of people who pioneered member care as a specialty in missions, we count ourselves blessed to serve the missionaries of West Africa. “Every mission group seems to be well cared for thanks to the joint efforts of peer debriefers who were trained by MMCT,” wrote one regional administrator after 200 missionaries were evacuated from a country in crisis:
“The hours MMCT has spent registering people, writing materials, hauling suitcases from airport to airport, leading workshops, coaching workshop participants and sleeping in less than adequate conditions has paid off. This wouldn’t have happened six years ago. But now, because of MMCT, there’s a sort of ‘missions without borders’ happening… the various mission communities are no longer in their own little boxes; they’re friends with each other through common workshops and training. They’re helping each other and working for each other’s well being.”
Why MMCT? Here is one missionary’s description of her response to a crisis: “When the munitions dump of a military base in the capital exploded, the city erupted into panic with people believing that the accident was the long dreaded rebel attack. Some missionaries experienced a tidal wave of fleeing humanity and saw bodies falling from the sky. ‘How in the world do we cope with this?’ was the question in the back of my mind. God never left us; we felt his presence, but we were not equipped [for this]. There was not a single trained counselor in this entire country. Only a few of us had even rudimentary training in crisis response...”