Hindsight is a funny thing. Looking back, if I had been on my own Missions Committee, I may never have sent me to the field.
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Few things are as challenging as a missionary's effort to communicate effectively with his or her sending and supporting churches. The obstacles are formidable. The effort often seems pointless.
Does this sound familiar?
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Sharing our call and mission with others can be one of the most basic and complicated aspects of connecting with others in Kingdom work. If only it was as simple to communicate our missions as the great Inigo Montoya makes it seem.
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I’ve talked with countless others who have had bad days, even traumatic ones, and it never ceases to amaze me that so many of God’s sent ones stay. Why do we do it? It has something to do with the remarkable experience of being irrevocably called by God to do something.
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The alarm goes off again. You take a final swat at the mosquito that kept you up half the night, already knowing the futility of the movement. You grab your phone and swipe right. The glowing timestamp breaks through the darkness that shielded your eyes through the night’s tossing and turning.
“I need to pray,” you think. “I need to journal and then get to the airport. I need to follow up on that WhatsApp message and mail those cards back to the States.”
“I need coffee.”
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