Missionaries reaching children in Thailand.

Picture / Alan Collingwood

“Who is the person you most admire?” is one of the questions in the Table Talkers box.

(“Find out the answers to 46 revealing questions in this box and get to know your friends and family a whole lot better at your next social occasion,” is written on the box.”)

While working in Thailand as a missionary we had a so-called field conference once a year.

At one of the conferences the International Director of the Missionary Society was the guest speaker and he said that he was glad that he was not called to come because of problems on the field.

Have you ever been told that the greatest problem on the mission field is that missionaries don’t get on with each other?

The desire of missionaries is to reach the unreached.

And only just now I am reading in a missionary magazine I received today that missionaries are getting sometimes so stressed out with relationship problems that they are getting so tired and getting sidetracked.

When I worked as a missionary in Thailand from Christmas 1966 – Christmas 1979 we had a field leader from the United States of America. He said that if we put enough pressure on each other we will will all go home sooner or later.

There are others I admire, but I think he is the person I most admire because he was a wise leader, in fact he was like a father to me.