Home Assignment
Making Home Assignment Plans
As you begin making home assignment plans, here are some particular things it would benefit you to consider:
Informing your Mobilising Region
Your Mobilising Region (MR) needs to know in good time when you are planning your Home Assignment. As soon as you contact your Unit Leader, please also personally inform your MR office. Your Leave Request form will be sent to them too.
Making plans
What plans do you have for: Rest and renewal? Visiting friends and family? Raising support or updating churches and supporters? (Contact your MR for possible resources available to help with this.) Further education? Be prepared to talk to your MR about these plans and how you may be integrated into AIM related events.
Visiting your Mobilising Office
Your Mobilising Region would love for you to visit the office. It would be a great opportunity for you to reconnect as well as to have a proper debrief. There may also be a Home Assignment conference that you could attend and connect with others who have recently returned.
Below are some articles that you might find helpful as you prepare for your home assignment:
The ‘Mount Horeb’ Experience (online article) An encouragement to take time for personal retreat and restoration while on home assignment.
20 Ways to refresh the hearts of the missionary saints on furlough (online article) A resource for churches and supporters who want to know how to help a missionary on home assignment (if not comfortable giving this to your church, maybe give to a family member or friend to pass along).
Why do Missionaries go on Furlough? (PDF document) Explores the purpose of home assignments–may be helpful for explaining to supporters who don’t know why we take them.
Secret scribblings of a missionary on home assignment (website) A humorous look at a missionary’s home assignment.
Furlough Frenzy & Furlough Interrupted – Online article taking a look at the painful experience of reverse culture shock and unmet expectations while on home assignment.
