Encouragement for Life: Words of Hope and Inspiration Book

This is a very helpful book for any church planning to send/support missionaries. It's definitely a book a missionary should read when first starting down that path. It's pretty much a guide stressing the importance of forming a sending team from the get go. Pirolo highlights different roles needed to round out a sending team. Each chapter has Bible study and discussion questions to read the book in a small group. I found it helpful, and it stresses the importance that a missionary going out to the field isn't something to embark on alone. The church needs to take seriously the responsibility to send prepared people, and to care for them well while on the field and when they return home.