Facing Danger - Dr Anna E Hampton

Facing Danger guides cross-cultural workers through a biblical discussion on risk, providing a spiritual and practical framework for working through cross-cultural risk assessment and management. In this book, Anna E. Hampton discusses:

• Four connections related to risk between the Old and New Testaments.


• Essential elements of cross-cultural risk assessment and management.


• Balancing the tension between the leading of the Holy Spirit, wise stewardship, and God's invitation to risk.


• Twelve risk myths often repeated to those who have a cross-cultural calling.


• A guide to writing a personal conviction on cross-cultural risk.


• Working through a systematic action plan on risk that integrates spirituality, faith, emotions, stewardship, and practical danger assessment.

After living for almost a decade in the high-risk and dangerous environment of Afghanistan, Facing Danger works through how Anna attempted to raise her children without emotional and long-term trauma while simultaneously living out her calling to partner in a divine endeavor in a hostile culture. This is the real world where a biblical understanding of risk must work.

Anna E. Hampton grew up as a farm girl in the Minnesota and felt called to work overseas as a young teen. By her midtwenties, she was in full-time work leading teenagers all over the world. Her husband, Neal, and her began a long-distance courtship across three continents, and after marrying they began raising their family in Afghanistan. She shares God's Word woven with personal experiences from living and working for fifteen years in Afghanistan and the Middle East and over twenty-five years of ministry experiences traveling in almost sixty countries of the world. She writes with a realism and depth from her own trials of facing overwhelming obstacles with faith and joy while also living in challenging environments, all of this while raising three young children with her husband, Neal. Anna holds a Master's in Educational Leadership from Bethel University and a Doctor of Religious Studies from Trinity Theological Seminary. She is a Bible teacher and occasional conference speaker at international women's events in Central Asia, the Middle East, and in the US. Her husband, Neal, and their three teenagers live in the Middle East where they continue to serve cross-cultural workers in closed countries.