“The labo re rs are few.” When was the last time we prayed for volunteers ? There are tremendous opportunities around the world. Right now we could use 8,000 mis sionaries of all kinds. We need 4,000 new missionaries every year just to keep up with the present rate of en deavor and growth. One of the rea sons is disobedience. Many aren’t heeding, the call of God. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded that we make disciples, baptizing and teach ing them. We must follow and obey the teachings of the Word of God. Q. Could you develop the concept of short-term missionary service?” M r . B uker : Conditions on many mission fields are different today. Medicine and housing, as an example, are better so that we can take peo ple who are older and may not have all the previous health qualifications. We have a “MAC” program which means Missionary Assistance Cor poration. We had a man come out to Pakistan who was 67 years old. He had never left the shores of this country. He helped us build a hos pital there while his wife became the grandmother to our children in the missionary boarding school. God used them in a wonderful way. There are many things people can do to relieve regular missionaries for evangelistic work. There are other opportunities for such individuals on week-ends, through interpreters or with other missionaries, to go on team outreach, sharing their testimony for Christ. On many fields especially in bigger cities the people speak English. In this way, people from this country can be very effective. P rop . C ook : I think of John Dun lap who went out at 74. The doctor had told him not to go as he was on heart medicine. He was graduated from BIOLA in 1918, spending 20 years in the Philippines. Then he came back to serve as a chaplain in
one of our prisons. After his wife died, he felt he should go back to the Philippines. He's done a marvelous job there. He’s done translation work, gotten a Christian newspaper going, and many of his former stu dents are now in high government places. I heard last week of a middle- aged couple who went because they saw John Dunlap’s picture. God has really multiplied his life. To be sure there are opportunities overseas. If at all possible, in their 20’s they should get a good education, and nat urally we would highly recommend Biola. For his biggest, dirtiest jobs, Satan dresses in white. Were all the world one chrysolite, The sun a golden ball, And diamonds all the stars of night, The Bible’s worth them all! If you are concerned about doing the will of God, how much more concerned He is that you know His will. Not by works of righteousness, but according to His mercy He saved us.. . . Meditation is not just reading the Bi ble but reading it with a purpose. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. There are moments when the faith of one man is contagious, and the strength of one man becomes the strength of many. I change, He changes not, The Christ can never die; His truth, not mine, The resting place, His love, not mine, the tie. A little truth goes a long way — if it isn’t stretched. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. —Samuel Johnson 17
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