Being an Aroma of Christ

Missionaries are stereotyped as the perfect, put-up-on-a-pedestal Christians. Karen Pearce refutes this misconception by asserting that those who minister cross-culturally often struggle to make friends in their new countries, to parent in unfamiliar settings, to maintain strong marriages while away from home's anchors, and to keep their prayer lives fresh and vital. Pearce, who in her missionary service in Central and Eastern Europe experiences these and other challenges, writes and authentic volume of life-saving helps that will smooth the path for anyone adjusting to ministry in a new country--or for those alrady there who wonder, "What do we do now?" Throughout, she testifies of God's constancy and of His desire that His servants, above all, impart Christ's "aroma"--His essence--around all they reach.