From Christmas 1966 until Christmas 1979 I worked as a missionary in Thailand.

Thailand, Bantak

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For one Field conference we had the General Director of the Mission as guest speaker and I think it was he who said that the Thai field was one field without problems and that he enjoyed coming.

Missionaries are only people and there are usually relationship problems on the mission stations.

Just now I have finished reading the book “We would see JESUS” by Roy Hession.

From the book I am learning why there are relationship problems between missionaries.

Especially new missionaries concentrating on service for God, instead on God himself.

God Himself must be our goal, and not activity for God.

It is just as easy as that.

We had a very wise Field Leader in Thailand and he was like a father to me when I was a young missionary on the field. I remember him saying something like this:

“If we put enough pressure on each other we will all go home eventually.”

The reason why we did not have any major problems was due to his wise counsel.

Thailand near Bantak

Image / Rachel Flintoff