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This study explores intercultural social dynamics among international Christian workers (ICWs) who are part of multicultural teams (MCTs) engaged in Christian ministries in a North African country (NAC). It seeks to understand the lived realities of these Christian workers and their situatedness at intersections of multiple cultural flows. Ethnographic methods were utilized in this qualitative inquiry, including interviews, participant observation, and iterative-inductive mode of data analysis. The conceptual framework of this research was informed and reinforced by the theory of cultural hybridization. A total of thirty-six interviews were conducted with forty-nine ICWs in three different formats – individual interviews, interviews with married couples, and a group interview. The participants were members of nine different evangelical mission organizations, seven of which were international mission organizations (IMOs) that operated in MCTs. Personal newsletters of several participants, websites of seven IMOs, and intercultural training materials of three organizations were also reviewed.