I am a new user so I hope I am doing this correctly. I didn’t find my topic anywhere on the website.

As a missionary involved in member care, I am concerned about assumptions organizations and churches make about the spirituality of their missionaries.  I would like to start a dialogue about missionary spirituality.  For the purpose of full disclosure, I am working on a dissertation on spiritual mentoring of field missionaries and if this goes anywhere, I will be glad to post some of the resources I have found.  I could start in a number of places but let me first ask the following question:

As a missionary, what have you needed in order to maintain and develop your spiritual life?