For your reading pleasure, here’s links to recent blog posts by missionaries Shepherd’s Staff facilitates on behalf of. 

• Trip Kimball on setting aside selfishness, self-centeredness, and self-fulfillment for the sake of discipleship.
• Ben Grisez as been busy. Here is an excellent post on suffering on the mission field, and is a reflection on hearing the voice of the Lord from Psam 29:9. 
• Melanie Dill on her experience training a YWAM team to care for children at risk and those having suffered trauma.