Over the night, I feel like there is one more area of praise when it comes to Independent Missionaries. E. Finances. I have seen the budgets set aside for a missionary family to serve overseas through an American mission agency. The numbers can be pretty staggering, at least compared to what many independent missionaries have. …
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My wife and I are independent missionaries. By this I mean that we are not under a traditional mission agency. We were sent out by a single church... who serves as our primary accountability partner. We also serve in and with a seminary in the Philippines. Neither of these (nor the counseling center or accreditation …
Continue reading In Tepid Praise of Independent Missionaries (Part 1)
As I have mentioned before, my wife and I had looked to go into missions under a regular mission agency. We were going through the process. We got slowed down because I was chubby. (Considering how much thinner I looked back then, I do wonder how realistic their “chubby designation” was.) I was told, by …
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