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Bro, its cause we arent going down the same Baptist Missions/ Fullerite path. Isnt it enough they destroy our churches?

 

Sounds good to me. One of the reasons I will NEVER go through a SB sending agency is they are entirely too bureaucratic for my tastes. They harangue you from sharing the Gospel. And I'm not much for them saying "hey, now we have an opening over (insert country) that we will place you in".

Seems to often run contrary to listening to God and where He leads.

And I just don't think it should cost 80,000 a year to send a missionary anywhere.

 

Again, I have a beloved Old Regular brother who runs a church on a $10K budget so....:applause::applause:

 

It shouldn't.
Do you realize how much $80K a year would come up to, TAX FREE, in the Philippines ?
That'll be in the area of nearly half-a-million philippine pesos, man.
Or a little less than forty thousand pesos a month.
That is a princely sum, buddy.

Most western (some Americans, some Europeans) missionaries that I've seen there before coming to the US live in the main town or the cities, with 4 to 6-room houses, a laundry woman, a house boy, a house maid, drive around in Ford Fiera's (a Ford Truck, stick shift, open driver and front passenger sides, closed sides with an open area for passengers to get off and on at the back), or a Tacoma.
The local churches they "minister" to, usually up in the hill villages or the smaller municipalities have pastors who barely get by daily, barely able to send their kids to school, have barely no buildings to worship in.

This is a Ford Fiera:

I remember my wife when she was teaching at a college down south, and my kids, went to a church, supposedly "supported" by a foreign missionary, which was by the seashore, and at very high tide seasons, the water came in to the building, all the way to their thighs, and they began and ended worship that way.
That is not to say it is true of all western missionaries (and some Koreans, as well), but 7 out of 10 (my estimate) that's the way it is.

When my wife fully retires in two years (I am semi-retired, for health reasons), we intend to settle down in the Central or Southern part of the country, and I pray the Lord will open up opportunities for His people and use me to minister to them.

 

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:laugh::laugh::laugh: that will not happen anytime soon:wavey: