Missionaries don’t need vacations… April 21, 2011

The Taj-mahal

Well, thats a lie!!!

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I wish sponsors of missionaries would understand the difficulties missionaries endure on the field. I wish they could step into their lives, families, ministry settings, the intzi bintzi’s of their hearts and see.

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I’ve had this conversation over and over again. Conversations ridden with guilt. Guilt of: “what will my sponsors think if I take a vacation while on the mission field”. Guilt about using money sponsers have given them to take a break.

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Dear Sponsers, let me share how it works. We raise money to be on the field. Out of that money we receive a monthly stippen (like a salary). How we use that money is left up to us. There are bills to be paid (housing, utilities, transport), food to be bought, tithes & gifts to be given, and then there’s a little bit extra for cushioning (for those “just-in-case” moments). When missionaries go on vacation its b/c they’ve saved up that small portion of a cushion to actually take a vacation. If anything, they are good stewards of the $ given to them.

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So sponsors…support your missionaries. Let them get a break from their rewarding yet difficult jobs. They deserve it. Trust me. When they don’t they end up in my office, burned out, exhausted, and handicapped from the work Christ has called them too.

Lets remember they are human. They need a break just like all the rest of us.

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And on that note…I’m off to India!

(Don’t worry sponsors this $ is coming out of my savings, not from peoples donations)

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