Wednesday, April 24, 2024
When someone decides to become a missionary, the majority of decisions revolve around training, language learning, and other important steps in the process. Although these all are necessary parts of preparing to be a missionary, Christians also need to ready their hearts. Anyone who decides to follow Christ and teach […]
Often when moving overseas, missionaries come face to face with a new culture, including, but not limited to a new language. Some missionaries may feel reluctant to learn a new language because it requires months to years of strenuous efforts. However, if they refuse to study the host country’s language, […]
Sometimes when Christians move to serve the Lord overseas, they bring children or have children in that foreign country. This inherently creates a complicated sense of home for these children. They may be from their passport country, but that’s not the community they grew up in. These complications create third […]
Jim Elliot serves as a prime example of a Christian applying mission work to every part of his life. His loved ones explain that from growing up and carrying a Bible around in high school in Portland, Oregon to serving as a missionary in rural Ecuador in adulthood, Elliot consistently […]
Orphanages serve as one of the greatest influences on Christians to become missionaries or donate to charities. This comes from the desire to help children without parents who cannot provide for themselves. Unfortunately, over recent years, research and statistics about orphanages reflect that the money donated to many orphanages does […]