Pastoral Care for Missionaries
The ones who carry the mission also need to be carried.
Pastoral care, chaplaincy, and spiritual companionship for missionaries serving in the field. Because soul care is not a luxury — it's the foundation that keeps the work alive.
Missionaries carry the weight of spiritual warfare, cultural isolation, and relentless demands. Without pastoral care, burnout isn't a risk — it's a certainty.
Serving far from home, far from family, far from familiar rhythms — missionaries often carry their pain in silence. Soul care breaks that silence.
Healthy missionaries build healthy ministries. Pastoral care isn't a pause from the mission — it's what sustains it.
Why This Matters
In the quiet act of showing up when showing up costs something.
Missionaries give everything — their time, their comfort, their safety, their sense of home. They pour out for others daily. But who pours into them?
Pastoral care for missionaries is the ministry behind the ministry. It's the listening ear when the field is hard. The prayer when words run out. The presence that says: you are not forgotten.
How We Serve
Pastoral care shaped by the field.Not from a distance.
We offer pastoral support designed for the unique realities missionaries face — isolation, spiritual fatigue, cross-cultural stress, and the weight of carrying a calling far from home.
Ongoing, confidential pastoral conversations — not therapy, but soul care rooted in Scripture and prayer.
Immediate pastoral presence during field emergencies, loss, trauma, or spiritual crisis.
Guided spiritual rest for missionaries approaching burnout or returning from difficult seasons.
Faithful, ongoing prayer covering for missionaries and their families serving abroad.
Your Pastor in the Field
Christie Richardson
Christie is a missionary, ordained pastor, and chaplain — and the founder of In the Field Media. With a Doctorate in Law & Policy, a Master of Divinity, and years of service in the U.S. Navy and Georgia Air National Guard, she brings a unique combination of academic rigor, spiritual depth, and practical mission experience.
She has served in Haiti, Kenya, Greece, and Albania — working alongside missionaries, government officials, and local communities. She understands the field because she lives in it. She knows the weight because she carries it too.
Now based in Vlorë, Albania, Christie offers pastoral care to missionaries who need someone who gets it — someone who won't just pray from a distance, but walk with you through the hard seasons.
What Missionaries Are Saying
You don't have to carry this alone.
“I didn't realize how much I needed someone to just listen — not fix, not advise, just be present. Christie gave me that space, and it changed everything about how I serve.”
“After three years on the field without real pastoral care, I was running on fumes. One conversation with Christie reminded me why I said yes to this calling in the first place.”
“She understands the field because she's in it. That makes all the difference. This isn't someone giving advice from comfort — it's a fellow soldier offering water in the desert.”
Names withheld for security. Stories shared with permission.
Reach Out
Request pastoral support.
Whether you're a missionary needing someone to talk to, a sending organization seeking pastoral care for your team, or a supporter wanting to fund this ministry — we're here.