In This Issue
The Prefield Journey
By Jim Ruff, Associate Director of CEIM
Long-time members of your church have recently been appointed as missionaries with ABWE. They returned home from ABWE’s Candidate Seminar with their suitcases in the back seat of the car and a notebook that seemed to fill the trunk. As they described their experiences to the church body the next Sunday, they frequently repeated one phrase: “prefield ministry.”
Missions: Marathon or High Hurdles?
By Bill Commons
Missions is a long and tiring race with many obstacles to overcome... The race is not for wimps, nor for heroes, but for committed servants prepared to endure—no matter what. Yet there is another side—missionaries have a lot of fun!
The Rearview Mirror
The Message invited these missionaries to look back on their time in prefield ministry. How were they helped to “get there”? What did they learn in the process?
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