tell me about your experiences
my church, a nondenominational Christian church, is very big into supporting missionaries overseas and locally and my family wants to get involved at some level
2007-03-25 09:43:30 · 5 answers · asked by servant FM 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not a missionary, but I am a missionary kid(MK). My parents work in Senegal, but not right now. My mom got cancer, so my dad, my brother, and my mom went to Norway for treatment. My older brother and I are in Dakar, Senegal going to school.
Man, I love telling my experiences. I am so happy I was brought up in a missionary family. Now about experiences...I was born in Colombia in South America. There I stayed for two years when my family had to evacuate b/c of the guerrillas (not the animal type). We went to Norway/Holland for about a year. Then my parents went to Ivory Coast where we lived for about 6 years. War started up, and so we evacuated out of the country and went to Norway. We went back to Ivory Coast about a 1 year and 1/2 after the first evacuation. But then about 10 months later we were evacuated again. We went to Norway for Christmas, and then went to Senegal. About 1/2 year ago my mother discovered she had cancer, so she went to Norway, while the rest of the family stayed hear in Dakar. My family were all together this Christmas. It was so great to see my mom, and also my oldest brother who is going to college in America. Then this January my brother and I went backt to Senegal. I have had so many experiences that really brought my closer to God.
Well, I hope you get involved some how in missions. It is a great ministry! God bless!
2007-03-25 10:00:47 · answer #1 · answered by OnFireForJesus! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My parents were missionaries. I was a missionary's kid.
I was carted off to a foreign country at the age of 12 and I hated every minute of the 3 years and 6 months I was forced to live there. By the time we returned home, I was almost 16 and it was far too late to fit in with any "clique", so I was relegated to the basement with the other nerds. By the time I was 18, I wanted nothing more to do with any religion.
Thats my experience of being an MK.
Basically if you want to be a missionary - do NOT take your kids if they are over the age of 10. By the time they return home, as teenagers, they will be seen as different or weird and no teenager can recover from that. Teenagers can be very cruel.
2007-03-25 17:31:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No personal experience, but have a friend, a physical therapist, who worked in a missionary school. They took in abandoned children, many with physical disabilities. There are many needs and many ways to serve.
2007-03-25 16:57:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is dreadful that anyone would want to go and impose their superstitious beliefs on other members of society. If you want to make a difference to people, leave them alone but send them books, pens, paper, blankets and clean water! They will not benefit from you being there and the planet will not benefit from yet more emissions from the aeroplane you would use to get there.
2007-03-25 16:48:53 · answer #4 · answered by the_emrod 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
there is more than one definition for the act of missionizing as there are more than one or two kinds of missions though in the long run we will all be serving the same purpose . whos to say what , when , why , or how , that will be .
2007-03-25 16:48:19 · answer #5 · answered by dontcallitthat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋