Anyone here interested in missions?

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LaelNaomi said:
I'm wanting to go into full-time missions work someday and wondering if anyone else has similar goals!
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I would, but I had a pastor talk me out of it, and I have been refused because I don't have the money to go. It sucks being unemployed, but apparently churches believe that unemployed people wouldn't make good missionaries. I am on more than a mission, I am on a quest to find the Holy Grail of Jobs to get off social assistance.
It has almost become a full time job looking for work.
 
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Rich retired older people ought to go on missions. If they can afford cruise ships and overseas holidays, they can afford to go on missions.

It amazed me that young people would go when they barely had any money and straight out of school. Who was funding them, their rich parents? They had barely any experience, and it seemed like a holiday for them. Turns out just a Christian kind of voluntourism.

One church said you had to read the Bible at least 3 times. I wonder how they examined them.
 
Sorry not being cynical or anything, but if you live on the other side of the world like I do, it takes ages to get anywhere. People didn't immigrate to my country for nothing, only to leave it again.
 
I_am_Canadian said:
It could be a fluke, even I sometimes make the mistake of putting a good post in the wrong forum.
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er,
I don't tend to bother with posts that aren't anything to do with topic of the thread that I clicked on as they don't make much sense.

Missions is not the same as colonisation though it might appear that way. It's not about who's church is the biggest.
Mission is primarily a ministry to sheep not already in the fold, to bring them to Christ.
It's not a breeding strategy to enlarge the herd lest it die out.
 
I kinda resent being treated solely as a taxpayer/economic unit that only lives to support the older population.
 
Take your kids to church...if you have any.
Or, teach your children good values by example, not leave it all for school teachers to cope with your kids behaviours...that they learned or failed to learn from their parents.
 
I_am_Canadian said:
I would, but I had a pastor talk me out of it, and I have been refused because I don't have the money to go. It sucks being unemployed, but apparently churches believe that unemployed people wouldn't make good missionaries. I am on more than a mission, I am on a quest to find the Holy Grail of Jobs to get off social assistance.
It has almost become a full time job looking for work.
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What is the Holy Grail of jobs?
Become a public servant? You can be a social assistant if you work for the government.

Charities and faith based organisations exist when the government doesn't want to do their job. Another thing is, eventually at some point in their life everyone will be on social assistance when they can't work anymore, it's called retirement/getting old.
If you haven't saved anything, then that's all they can give you, and if they haven't got anything, you face homelessness like everyone else who doesn't get or accept help.
 
This is only if your govt believes in social welfare i.e looking after its own citizens.

Otherwise they are quite happy to allow missionaries in to do this for free.
 
Lanolin said:
Not sure what, if any of this has to do with missions, or birth rates in the Uk for that matter.
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Missions can be domestic or international. Or both if the organization you work for is bent that way.

Birth rates being super low this way have devastating effects on a nation. Especially those of extreme ages and/or medically fragile. Like elderly, young, or chronically ill.

We are looking at complete collapse in 40 years with a major reset in 20. UK, Japan, South Korea will be first to demonstrate what happens.
Mandatory public service will begin for young people (Japan has already started this) in Senior citizen group homes, military, hospitals and other areas requiring youth.
Expect even more automation of food service.

Things are going to have to be different in 20 years.
Either we get an almost plague of children or expect things to get extremely stressful and difficult.
 
Lanolin said:
er,
I don't tend to bother with posts that aren't anything to do with topic of the thread that I clicked on as they don't make much sense.

Missions is not the same as colonisation though it might appear that way. It's not about who's church is the biggest.
Mission is primarily a ministry to sheep not already in the fold, to bring them to Christ.
It's not a breeding strategy to enlarge the herd lest it die out.
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ahh ok
 
Lanolin said:
What is the Holy Grail of jobs?
Become a public servant? You can be a social assistant if you work for the government.

Charities and faith based organisations exist when the government doesn't want to do their job. Another thing is, eventually at some point in their life everyone will be on social assistance when they can't work anymore, it's called retirement/getting old.
If you haven't saved anything, then that's all they can give you, and if they haven't got anything, you face homelessness like everyone else who doesn't get or accept help.
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The Holy Grail of jobs is the one that gets me off social assistance.
 
Baby boomers expect everyone to look after them but don't realise that the baby boom was an anomaly. It only happened because of the post-war conditions meant a lot more land AND social assistance ie. housing, jobs were available so that people could actually have families. Conditions were favourable post-war to having more babies. This population/generation is now aging/living longer and people haven't kept up.

This has absolutely nothing to do with missions.
 
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LaelNaomi said:
Yep! This is exactly what I hope to do :) I was so appreciative of this kind of help in high school and in college so I hope to provide the same support for others like me!
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Hey miss Lael, welcome to the site!

I'm involved with the youth ministry at my church, and there is a huge interest in missions among the teenagers. Most are not missionary kids but rather grew up in a fairly standard family situation and want to go overseas before or after college (3 have already done so long-term and 3 more are doing short-term).

What advice do you have as far as helping them prepare for that? I'm mostly thinking from an emotional and spiritual standpoint. We try to offer them a lot of opportunities for domestic missions here in our town, plus a yearly trip a few states away. So they are definitely getting out of their comfort zones, but overseas has got to be a whole other bear to handle!
 
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In NZ most graduates go on an OE which is overseas experience, often to UK because its easier, english speaking, and often family ties. Anywhere overseas is out of our comfort zones. A lot of people do JAP, where they go to Japan to teach english, or Korea. There's also USA summer camps.

Not really the same thing as missions which seems to be more about church planting.
 
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