missionary needs to have had some business course training. Each station has a book deposit, so the specialist station missionary is a salesman! People come to the mission home for books, and other helps, tracts, and the like. There are a number of weekly evangelistic services in the town and nearby villages, and the specialist station missionary is called upon for a sermon, for transportation (if he has a car), and for help with the music. The young people form a choir that sings in church and over the ra dio, and the station missionary may play, sing, or even direct the choir as the need may be. When camp or conference time arrives, a good repre sentative group of the young people are encouraged to attend, and ar rangements made for their transporta tion. Child evangelism presents an ever-present challenge and opportu nity to every station missionary, and all of the women missionaries sched uled at least one class into a busy week, and many times, five or six, besides teaching a training class of national teachers weekly. On this station last year twenty-two teachers taught 495 classes reaching over seven hundred children every week. Visitation opportunities are limit less! The believers eagerly look for ward to the missionary’s visits to their homes. These are visits of consolation, exhortation, counseling, invitation, and investigation. And when it comes to visiting, it is usually a question of who gets started first on a given day, because so many nationals visit the missionary. Then there are hun dreds of homes of unbelievers, whose children are perhaps in the neighbor hood classes. Perhaps their Christian neighbors have asked the missionary to do a little follow-up work with someone with whom they have been dealing. Yes, the station missionary is a visitation specialist! Are you weary? Perhaps the mis-, sionary is, too, but there are still Bible classes to prepare for, and there are the church services, the young people, the women’s meetings, and special messages for a campaign or confer ence. You discover that the construction work on the mission home or chapel has been held up because of these other important ministries. Often a station missionary must also be a builder. Specialization? Yes, in station work we must redeem the time, and buy up opportunities. Missionaries appre ciate your prayers for their special ization ministries. Would the Lord have you to be this kind of specialist?
M A N Y - T A L E N T E D M I S S I O N A R I E S by Mildred Livingstone I n th ese days, specialization seems to be the watchword, the secret
and arranged our room with a fan and a mosquito net. The temperature averages 93° to 95° the year round, so no blankets are needed. We might think we are their first visitors for a long time, but as we look at their guest book we see they have had an average of two to three guests a night for nearly a year, and, by the time we leave, we know that this number doesn’t include those who are enter tained for meals at different times! So a specialist station missionary, run ning a “missionary hotel” is host or hostess, as well as cook! As we attend the Sunday school and church services on Sunday, we see that the missionaries are also musi cians (though not expert, perhaps), Bible teachers, and preachers (where there is no national pastor). The single woman missionary stays for the church business meeting to take the minutes, because she is church secre tary. The church treasurer asked help from the man missionary regarding the church books. Yes, the station
of success, -the goal, the ultimate in any endeavor. And, on the mission field, it is becoming increasingly evi dent that this is the trend, as avia tion, medicine, radio, education, lit erature are being used on all fields to make Christ known. The Orinoco River Mission has sev eral specialized projects— a Bible in stitute, a launch ministry, and recent ly a press and bookstore ministry. But station work has long been one of its specialties, and I would like to show how station work specialists are need ed. Another name for them .might be jacks of all trades (and masters of one—making Christ known through every opportunity). A missionary on his or her station has unlimited opportunities. Shall we visit one of the stations in Venezuela where there is a missionary couple and a single woman missionary, and accompany them for a few weeks? We are their guests, so they have made special preparation for our coming,
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