What happens when someone you love says yes to God’s call, and that yes carries them across oceans?

Much attention is rightly given to the courage and sacrifice of Christians who leave home to serve abroad. Yet behind every departure are parents, siblings, grandparents, spouses, children, friends, pastors, and supporters who must learn how to love faithfully across the distance. They may celebrate a loved one’s obedience while grieving an empty chair, a missed holiday, or another goodbye. Their sacrifice is real, even when few people notice it.

For Those Who Send is a Scripture-rooted prayer companion created for those who remain behind. Through 100 compassionate prayers and reflections, Havilah G. Bennett gives language to emotions that can be difficult to express: joy mingled with sorrow, faith tested by fear, gratitude complicated by loss, and hope held alongside unanswered questions. This book will never ask you to hide your pain or treat sadness as spiritual failure. Instead, it invites you to bring your whole heart honestly before Christ.
Within these pages, you will find prayers for departures, delayed messages, video calls, birthdays, holidays, financial sacrifice, loneliness, illness, political unrest, ministry disappointments, home assignments, unexpected returns, and many other realities of loving someone who serves far away. Every chapter begins with Scripture, offers a thoughtful reflection, leads into a substantial prayer, and closes with brief words of truth to carry into the day.

Whether you read it privately, pray through it with your family, or use it within a church community, this book will help you surrender what you cannot control, communicate with greater grace, and support your loved one without losing sight of your own need for God’s care.

Sending is not passive. Every prayer, gift, message, sacrifice, and act of faithful encouragement participates in God’s work among the nations.

If someone you love is serving abroad, let For Those Who Send become a trusted companion through every season of distance. Open to the chapter that meets you where you are and discover again that the God who sends your loved one also stays near to you with unfailing love.