To make it easier for POMs to connect and network with one another, we're launching a new venture—a Yahoo! group called Parents_of_Cross-Cultural_Workers.

You can use the group to ask questions, post prayer requests, offer suggestions and advice to others, and locate POMs to connect with by e-mail, phone, or even in person. Please read the group description carefully when you join. We're sensitive to the need to protect identities and locations of workers in some parts of the world.

You'll need a free Yahoo! account to join. Go here to join the group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Parents_of_Cross-Cultural_Workers/

Life Coaching for POMs
Advance Global Coaching is a new (since 2007) life-coaching service focused on the missions community—including POMs! All coaches with AGC are certified and have cross-cultural experience.

Founder and CEO Sherri Dodd is a certified Life Coach with over 25 years career missionary experience—as well as a wife, mom, and speaker. Sherri is also a POM. One of her daughters recently began her first term as a missionary in Spain.

AGC offers coaching packages for those exploring missions; for new, veteran, and returning missionaries; for missions pastors; for MKs; and for POMs. Coaching takes place via phone or Skype. The POM package helps POMs prior to and after their missionary's departure; a custom package can be created for POMs with children already on the field. POMs can choose the length of their coaching package.

Sherri's heart is to help POMs use for good the void created by their missionary's absence—for themselves, for their children, and for the Lord. For more information or to contact Sherri, visit the AGC website, http://www.AdvanceGlobalCoaching.com

Want to know more about what's going on in missions around the world, get more insight about missionary life, or hear from other POMs?
Invest some time exploring the links below. If you have another resource to recommend, please let us know at information@pomnet.org

• ASSIST News Service
  http://www.assistnews.net
  
  
• Barnabas International
  http://www.barnabas.org
  
  
• Books and media
  http://www.calebresources.org/
  http://www.authenticbooks.com/search/publisher/Authentic
  http://missionbooks.org/williamcareylibrary/home.php
  
  
• Brigada Today
  http://www.brigada.org
  
  
• Encouragement Online Magazine
  The current issue features a great article about communicating with adult children.
  http://www.barnabas.org/magazine.php
  
  
• Evangelical Missions Quarterly
  http://www.emqonline.com/
  
  
• Finishers Project
  http://www.finishers.org/
  
  
• Grandparenting Great
  http://www.grandparentinggreat.com
  
  
• Harvest Legacy
  https://www.womenoftheharvest.com/publications_home.asp
  
  
• Homefront Heartbeats
  http://equip.efca.org/course/caringformissionaries
  
  
• Interchange Postings, May 2008
  This issue features discussion of home assignment (furlough).
  http://www.catalystservices.org/bm~doc/h.a.-triangle.pdf
  
  
• *NEW! MemCare by Radio
  Programs available by radio and on the Internet provide information and encouragement for cross-cultural workers, especially in remote areas. Topics include leadership, communication, moving, culture shock, cross-cultural marriage, stress, depression, health, and much more! www.membercareradio.com Listen and encourage your missionary to listen also.
  
  
• LAM News Service article
  A look at those entering missions at midlife and the impact on adult children left behind.
  http://019329f.netsolhost.com/images/Missions-The_Special_Role_Children_Play_in_Supporting_Missionary_Parents.pdf
  
  
• Missions Catalyst e-Magazine
  http://www.missionscatalyst.org
  
  
• Mission Frontiers
  http://www.missionfrontiers.org/
  
  
• MisLinks
  http://www.mislinks.org/
  
  
• Missionary Care: Resources for Missions and Mental Health
  http://www.missionarycare.com/
  
  
• Mission Network News
  http://www.mnnonline.org
  
  
• Prayer Resources from OMF
  http://www.omf.org/omf/us/resources__1/prayer_resources
  
  
• US Center for World Mission
  http://www.uscwm.org/
  
  
• Women of the Harvest
  https://www.womenoftheharvest.com/publications_home.asp
  
  
• World Missions Atlas Project
  http://www.worldmap.org/