As well as longer-term missionaries, World missions is not an optional If you would like to know more,
we also encourage short-term mis- extra, because over two-thirds of the please contact:
sionaries and team visits overseas. world’s people still don’t know the life-
People who participate in short-term changing love of God for themselves. Elim International Missions,
missions are not only a blessing The reason God sent his Son and PO Box 38,
to those they visit and serve, the Holy Spirit is so that we can show Cheltenham,
but they themselves can be people all over the world what he has GL50 3HN.
enriched, inspired and done for us. Email: missions@elimhq.net
challenged. www.elimmissions.co.uk
What makes a modern missionary?
What makes a modern missionary is by this and can no longer be satis- being easy; someone who is willing to
a fascinating and challenging ques- fied by returning to our former state of serve with no expectation of any return
tion, writes Chris Jones. To achieve being. We must seek to grow and be and someone who is willing to change
what one desires in any realm of life further used by our creator to serve his and to allow God to have his way.
demands excellence along with many purposes – wherever and however he
other attributes and for the Christian calls us. In essence, then, a modern mission-
this is no different. ary is no different to missionaries from
‘We may return home in a physical days long ago; they have a passion to
A call, a passion and a love for the lost sense, but God has opened our eyes share Jesus and transform people’s
are all things that need to be consid- to this breadth of his work and to the lives. For a modern missionary that
ered. However, when thinking about spiritual and physical needs of our may be through praying with people
this I was reminded of what one writer fellow human beings. We can never be as a doctor in a rural hospital; it may
says: ‘The endeavour of missions the same as we were before our brush be going into local schools and run-
is a highly risky undertaking for the with missions. Long or short term, ning kids clubs and Bible classes; it
Christian. Once you leave your com- service in missions is dangerous: may be working with and supporting
fortable and familiar surroundings, you dangerous to our comfort; dangerous local villages to care for HIV/AIDS or-
experience an ever-widening view of to our complacency and dangerous to phans. The way missions is done may
God’s work through the world… work our world view.’ have changed, but the message is still
quite often undertaken by God work- the same.
ing through people as ordinary as you A modern missionary is someone who
and me. We are profoundly changed is willing to go, with no guarantee of it
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