Years ago it would have been considered almost unscriptural to think of anything less than a lifetime commitment to a particular board, country, and work. When introduced to that concept today, many would-be candidates take two giant steps backward.
The cost of promotion is going up. Postage and paper are leading the way. There is no indication that things will ever again be cheaper.
Management principles have been much in the thinking of mission executives and missionaries in recent years. Such terms as organizational charts, job descriptions and management by objectives, already popular in the literature, have found their way into everyday conversation.
LIVE— “Learning through International Volunteer Effort” — was the theme of a conference held in Manila.
If adequate education is not available, the mission must see that it is.
Although missionary children live in as many different kinds of situations as other children do, they face a unique crisis of adjusting to American culture when they come from the field to the United States for their education.
Missionaries should consider sending their children to national schools.
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