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[QUOTE=stmatthew;232126]I have always been a big reader of Missionary biographies. I love to hear the stories of different missionaries and the sacrifices they made. I guess most of what I read would have been in the 1900-1960 timeframe. One thing that I noticed is that there was a big push for missionaries to go into all the world. I do not hear much anymore about a call to missions.
Did there used to be services specifically geared towards the promotion of "calling missionaries" to the field? Why do we have so few going into the mission field.
Whether we want to admit it or not we live in a materialistic society. There is a difference in a God Called missionary and a professional missionary.
Many churches have been hurt by so called missionaries. I have talked to pastors that wept and told me of monies they had put in places that did not even exist!
What Jesus told us so long ago still is true today, the harvest is white and the laborers are few.
So much red tape for organizational missionaries some stop even before they go!
Not many are going to live today like Arlei and family that we just sent out to the jungle city of Barra do Corda in the state of Marahao. Consider the pictures below:
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