Things don't happen by chance. God's call is the missionary's reason for being. Josie Vasquez heard it when she spent 11 days digging trenches and shoveling lava rock at a missionary training school in Kona, Hawaii. Her mission plans are part of a quest to somehow share the glow she saw on the faces of the people in Hawaii who dedicated their lives to mission work. If that means washing and scrubbing floors or attending to less fortunate people or children, that would be really meaningful to me.
Churches everywhere raise money for mission work.
Some take a more aggressive approach. Ventura Missionary Church supports 18 members who are on full-time missions, in the Middle East, Hungary and elsewhere. If few people realize the extent of missionary work, even fewer understand the danger sometimes involved. In African or Latin American nations where guerrillas and attempted governmental coups are part of the habitat, kidnapping missionaries can be seen as a way to punctuate a political statement. They perceive them as Westerners.