Supporting Missionaries Through the Next Season of Calling
Encore Initiative helps organizations support missionaries as they discern what faithfulness, purpose, and contribution look like in the next season of life.
The Transition We Need to Address
Missions organizations do an excellent job sending missionaries to the field.
Eventually, the retirement transition comes.
How can we offboard missionaries as well as we onboarded them?
Encore Initiative is a guided process for the next chapter.
A Transition Worth Navigating Well
Many missionaries will face major transition in the coming decade.
Mission agencies are seeing increasing numbers of long-term missionaries move toward retirement and transition seasons.
Transition is often harder than expected.
Studies consistently show that many missionaries struggle with identity, role clarity, support systems, and long-term adjustment when leaving the field.
Healthy transitions strengthen long-term flourishing.
Missionary care research repeatedly highlights the importance of relational support, clarity, and intentional care during seasons of transition.
Many mission organizations are entering a season where a significant number of long-term missionaries and global workers will transition off the field in the coming decade.
Encore Initiative is a ministry that helps people rethink retirement as a transition into a new season of purpose and contribution.
For many missionaries, leaving the field can feel disorienting. A role that shaped daily life, relationships, and identity begins to change. The structure is different. The rhythms are different. The future may feel unclear.
Encore creates space to process that transition thoughtfully.
Rather than asking only what someone is retiring from, we help people consider what they are moving toward, and how their experience, calling, wisdom, and faith can continue to bear fruit in this next chapter of life.
Encore: A Different Vision for the Next Season
How Encore Can Support Your Organization
Transition Coaching for Returning Missionaries
One-on-one or couples coaching designed to help missionaries process the transition off the field and move thoughtfully into the next season of life.
Conversations often include identity, purpose, rhythms, relationships, grief and loss, future contribution, and how to continue living with clarity and mission after a major transition.
Workshops & Seminars
Interactive seminars designed for missionaries approaching retirement, reassignment, furlough transition, or long-term return from the field.
Topics can include:
Navigating the “FROM / TO” transition
Purpose and identity after the field
Emotional and relational adjustments
Building healthy rhythms in a new season
Remaining engaged in meaningful Kingdom contribution
These can be customized for your organization’s culture and needs.
Care for Couples Navigating Transition Together
Transition off the field often impacts marriages, family dynamics, expectations, and daily rhythms in significant ways.
Encore provides space for couples to reflect together, process differences, and build shared clarity around the season ahead.
Ongoing partnerships
Every organization approaches member care differently.
We are not looking to replace what you already do well. Our goal is to come alongside your existing care structure and provide additional support where it may be helpful.
That may look like:
speaking at retreats or gatherings
coaching referrals
transition workshops
leadership conversations
customized care pathways for long-term missionaries
We would love to build something that fits your organization well.
Hear more about how Encore can help impact missionaries who are entering or adjusting to retirement:
Meet Andrew
Director of Life Planning & Retirement Coaching
The Center Memphis
Andrew Beach spent more than two decades serving in church leadership and has spent years walking with people through significant life transitions.
Through Encore Initiative, he now works with individuals, couples, churches, financial advisors, and mission organizations to help people approach retirement and transition seasons with greater clarity, intentionality, and gospel-centered purpose.
Andrew brings a pastor’s heart to these conversations, creating space for honest reflection, thoughtful dialogue, and practical next steps for the season ahead.
Let’s Talk About How Encore Could Serve Your Missionaries
Every organization approaches missionary care differently. We would love to learn more about your people, your culture, and the transition challenges you are seeing.
Whether you are exploring coaching, workshops, retreats, or broader partnership opportunities, we would be glad to start a conversation.