Posted by C. Holland on Oct 19, 2009
Some missionary blog posts worth reading:
Karl Dahlfred asks if Long-Term Missionaries are obsolete.
Mentanna reflects on the costs of obedience to God’s call to missions affecting those around you, especially children.
Kevin asks if the multi-site church concept is uniquely American.
Grady Bauer gives some good direction for those who would like to be foreign missionaries but cannot physically go.
Ernest Goodman discusses the pros and cons of supporting a national church planters.
Posted by C. Holland on Oct 08, 2009
One of our supporting churches recently had a missions focus week, and it’s always an encouragement to us in the field to hear such things. It’s really nice to hear from a group after a while and be reminded that there are so many lifting us up in prayer, which is the most important support for a missionary, in my opinion. If your church supports a missionary, I would encourage you to get their contact details and send a quick “hello” with a reminder that you’re praying for them. Seriously. It means a lot to a missionary.
This particular church sent us some questions, mostly about how they could pray more specifically or if they could send any necessary supplies along to us. Great stuff; we really appreciate the thoughts and inquiries. But one of the questions came with an explanation that, during missions week, the theme was something like “Superheroes”, and that they were calling their missionaries this in the Sunday services.
Superheroes. Hero would be hard enough to live up to, never mind adding “super” to it. Us as Superheroes? Hardly.
Because I know this church and some of its people, I am convinced that they had the best of intentions with this, so I don’t take offence directly. They really do mean well. I know they are trying to encourage others to the mission field, or at least giving towards missions, and as someone with a background in the Creative Ministry Arts, I applaud the creativity applied towards what is unfortunately viewed by many Christians as a dull subject. Some of the faith-stretching things we’ve done to follow God’s call have certainly been out of the ordinary, and we’re definitely unusual. But that’s where the similarities stop. Read More…
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