Cleaning. Cooking. Doing dishes. Commuting to work. Checking e-mail.
Running errands. Entertaining guests. Fixing things around the house. Do
these tasks sound familiar to anyone? What does this have to do with being a
missionary? Aren't missionaries those people who take a Bible and picture
roll out to the jungle villages and preach to the natives? Aren't
missionaries supposed to have clinics and schools and hold meetings and
baptize lots of people? Yes--missionaries do do these things. But they also
do other things. Like sweeping the floor, and cooking, and shopping, and just
spending time making friends. In fact--most of the day-to-day life of a
missionary isn't spent baptizing people or preaching, but in doing the
day-to-day tasks that anyone else does, whether in America or in any other
part of the world.
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