For others, family life may be made difficult by living conditions, inadequate amenities, lack of finance, or be disrupted by long separations, many visitors, and overwork. Missionaries' children may have to be separated from their parents for long periods because of education, and can become resentful or rebellious in their teens. Pray that missionary families may be an effective witness and example of all that a Christian family should be. Commitment to God's will. Pray that none may leave a place of calling for a negative reason, but only because of a positive leading from God.
All workers desire an effective ministry that bears fruit.
They need clear objectives and time to achieve them. Too much time can be spent on survival and handling trivial interruptions, and too little on the real task. Only the Holy Spirit can give a worker that constraining love of Christ for sinners-human pity is inadequate. A sense of urgency. Expulsions, or enforced departure from the field, could suddenly terminate a ministry.