highly respected and trusted the missionaries as they completely co-operated with each other. Peo ple were constantly coming into the missionaries’ homes and it was evident that the nationals and missionaries had totally ac cepted one another and that there was real love between them all.” Karen felt that “ This experience has strengthened my own Chris tian life and I feel closer to know ing the Lord’s will day by day.” Not only has she learned about life in a foreign country, but also about living a closer, more Christ- like life at home. PMT recently merged with the Central American Mission which will facilitate internal operations — CAM handling the mailing and financial records for PMT; PMT interviewing CAM candidates and representing that organization on the west coast. However, PMT will continue to offer Youth Mis sionary Camps for spiritually ma ture teenagers during Easter and Christmas va ca t ion s , monthly conferences and free counseling and information service for mis sionary-inclined youth. The sum mer program, above all, will con tinue to be its main thrust, as PMT works to provide a practi cal, Spirit-filled missionary expe rience for young people dedicated to serving Christ at home or abroad. k b Miss Peggy Sanders is a sopho more at Biola College, La Mirada, California.
in order to see missionary work from a closer vantage point, “ the trainees are then scattered in dividually and in small groups among various missionaries for a closer, more concentrated view of missionary home life and specific institutionally and rural tribal ministries. In spite of careful planning, much of what is en countered comes naturally and unexpectedly, p re sen t ing many t y p i c a l missionary situations.” This can mean anything from changing a flat tire or spending a night outside in the mud to much more significant unexpect ed circumstances. Part o f this summer’s group arrived in Hon duras and found th em se lves caught in that country’s war with El Salvador, a neighboring coun try. The war provided many expe riences for these young people, including living under black-out conditions and evacuating fami lies in strategic areas. As far as these young people were concerned, the Lord had many personal problems for each one through the summer. Joe Witt of Orange, Calif., felt real fear for the first time in Honduras yet he says, “ I was able to see the missionaries’ reaction to all this — something I never would have seen except in this situation.” Joe came back from PMT eager to return to a foreign country. He found that “ Christian work in a foreign country isn’t that differ ent from Christian work here. It involves church planting, evan gelism, leading people to Christ and then helping than to grow. Yet the different language, cul ture and environment, the lack of abundant Christian w i tn e s s e s such as we have in the U.S., and the sacrifices — socially and fi nancially — made by national Christians, make work in the for eign country the most exciting work in the world.” Impressed by the relationship between the missionaries and the government during the Honduran war, Karen McBride from Ari zona saw that “the government DECEMBER, 1969
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