Prospective missionaries often invest considerable time and effort in choosing the right mission agency. This is essential, but joining the right team may be even more important. As a field worker, you will spend far more time interfacing with your team than with your agency’s leaders in a dis-tant headquarters. Team compatibility and ministry fit are huge factors in determining not only the success of your efforts but also your personal wellbeing.

Team values, culture, and function vary wildly even within the same mission organization. A thousand factors shape a team’s personality, and determine how they approach ministry, resolve problems, and care for each other. Face-to-face interaction is necessary to begin to understand these complex dynamics. . .[Click below to continue]