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Originally Posted by Charnock
Most home missionaries work jobs. Foreign missionaries are fully supported. Not only are foreign missionaries fully supported with a great salary and benefits, they also receive a lot of funding to build facilities.
Home missionaries, on the other hand, are mostly on their own. Metro missions pays a small portion of HM pastors salaries, and there are loan programs, like church in a day, that helps with facility costs. However, these programs are tiny compared to foreign missions.
Mostly, home missionaries are on their own. They have to be full time secular workers, and full time pastors, all while trying to build a congregation and facility in an increasingly secular and anti-Christian society which doesn't trust them.
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The bold is a blanket statement and is not true for all.
As for home missionaries having to work full time secular jobs, SO WHAT?
My pastor and pastors wife both work secular jobs. Guess what? We aren't "home missions" so theres no support at all coming from anywhere. Our church has been around for over 30 years and has been through hell and back multiple times with multiple pastor changes over the years. There has been no help during those times when attendance has been so low that the building was almost repossessed. People worked, people gave and God blessed and somehow the church has survived it all.
I suppose my pastor and his wife should get upset over those foreign missionaries that receive support and may not have to work secular jobs? I guess they should get upset that there was no plan in place to help them when they first took the church under less than perfect circumstances?
THEY WOULDN'T DREAM OF IT!
If this wasn't so sad it would be laughable...
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