New year, new month
Blink and a month goes by. Funny how that happens. All of our bloggers are busier than ever with life in the Family International—There is much to prepare for and look forward to this year all over the world. For Family members 2007 is going to be a year that focuses on training and gaining additional expertise in the missionary profession. Each one of us who’ve given ourselves to this calling are committed to raising the bar on Missionary excellence. It’s going to be an exciting year.
Saying that you’re a missionary means so much more than the simple name implies. A missionary is not only someone who lives Mark 16:15, but it also means being a jack-of-all-trades, someone who can go to a far-flung country and learn the local language, open a missionary center, teach children and adults scholastics and practical life skills, feed the hungry, organize and distribute aid, raise funding for myriad projects, host training seminars and youth camps and concerts, fix a car, cook for anywhere between ten or a hundred people… and on the list goes. It’s not a profession so much as a way of life, and each of us in the Family International have committed to this, and there is never a dull moment.
For your reading pleasure, this week Sara blogs about upcoming training programs for teens in the Family in her part of the world, Flo ruminates on the fact that she will be a mother in April, while Vas and Joni prepare to move houses (a fairly common occurrence if you are a missionary). Good reading from all of our LTC bloggers, and you won’t want to miss it.
Here’s praying that your coming week is a good one! God bless!
–Justin, for the Editors