Missions

What is your perspective on missions?

1) How do you witness, or how would you verbally witness given the opportunity? What do you believe are the 'essentials' to communicate, if you are proclaiming the whole salvation 'package deal'?

2) Have you been to Urbana? What are its strengths, and would you recommend it?

3) If you are or know someone who is a missionary, what is the daily life like?

4) What do you think about tentmaking or raising support? If you know someone who raises support, is it extremely hard for them to do so?

5) To your knowledge, does the overseas missionary usually feel that a strong desire has been placed on his / her heart by God to go in the first place? Or, does the person just follow the opportunities and loosely follow their interests, or some kind of combination of all the above?

I believe that overseas missions shouldn't be equated as being necessarily more holy than people serving God in/through their own faiths & various life circumstances. I also believe that overseas missions can be used by God to have eternal impacts on others' lives...although of course God can use people to influence others no matter where they are... hmmmmmmmmmm.