January 23: why missionaries need encouragements!

This came from a letter written by Lisa Hicks, a good friend of mine:  a career missionary woman, in a member care role...as she listened to some of the faith-stretchers experienced by a short-term team who was in West Africa for 10 days. 

"... They had just shared some of their faith stretching experiences on the trip and so I suggested that when praying for missionaries, they remember their experiences ... and then multiply them by years.  Here are some examples.

Missionary Life in West Africa (and anywhere) . . .

January 22: encouragements

Sometimes we are surprised (though we shouldn't be!) by God's amazing timing. Yesterday was a day when the internet wasn't working... well it was working at .4 kb/second... and a few other frustrating things had happened. But then, in the late afternoon we received a fun Christmas package from our Barnabas support team from our home church. We had known the package had been sent and the team had hoped for it to get to us by Christmas, and we just hoped it would show up at all! To have it arrive yesterday was a sweet surprise and a lift to us after a challenging day!

Here's an idea-filled article if you need some fresh ways to encourage YOUR missionaries! (They'll be blessed, I promise!)