The closeness of living, traveling, and working conditions intensifies interpersonal conflicts. Missionaries tend to be strong-willed people, so potential clashes can undermine the mission team and projects. The harsh terrains, hot climates, and primitive conditions of most mission fields require healthy and fit missionaries who can endure and be effective in adverse conditions, and who can cope with and recover from debilitating sicknesses. It is essential for all missionaries to have extensive ministry experience at the home front before venturing into cross-cultural missions overseas. Frustrations, disappointments, and discouragements are occupational hazards and part of our job description.
Sacrificial service is more eloquent than many sermons.
We definitely do not have enough qualified people to be able to handle the tremendous opportunities and invitations of ministry before us. We always need more field staff, and administrative staff, but there is a wide-open opportunity for expanding our tape ministry, pastoral training, leadership training, Bible teaching, etc. The opportunities before us are so unprecedented, and I fear that we may be missing many windows of opportunity by not having sufficient resources and personnel to respond to them adequately. He is an international speaker, presenting about 400 lectures or sermons each year throughout Africa, Eastern Europe, and America. Cape Town, South Africa Tel.