Missionary life is a rich experience and calling. So You Want to Be a Missionary?: Essential Considerations is the result of decades of missionary service in Africa and to missionaries. The book offers essential considerations from Choosing your field of service, first entry into the country, raising children on the field, managing conflict, understanding cultures, the importance of language acquisition, and leaving the field to return home. These are just a few life-changing topics covered in the book. Helpful exercises at the end of most chapters helps the reader to process insights and challenges to the considerations offered.So You Want to Be a Missionary?: Essential Considerations seeks to better equip missionaries for the rigors and challenges many workers find themselves unprepared to face during their tenures on the field. Don served with his wife Kathy for twenty-two years as missionaries in South Africa. He pastored two churches in Minnesota. Don currently serves in Member Care with Baptist Bible Fellowship to missionaries around the world. He holds an MDiv and DMin from Luther Rice University, is a trained life coach, and carries several certifications in Fire/EMS/Police Chaplaincy, Critical Incident Stress Management, Depression Recovery and Line of Duty Death.