Key 2: Commitment with long-term missionaries.
To achieve the goal of reaching an unreached ethnic group it is necessary a long-term missionary work.
In order to see lasting fruits, work requires both “senders” and “sent” with hearts predisposed to
work with perseverance in long-term processes.
The true history of missionary work is written by those who commit everything during their entire lives.
David Livingstone, British missionary, worked 33 years in Africa and died in a small town on the lake Bangweulu, in Zambia, because of malaria and an internal hemorrhage caused by dysentery.
Then he was transported to England and buried but the Africans buried his heart under a tree because they said that his heart was in Africa.
Hudson Taylor, English missionary who worked 51 years in China.
His vision led him to send more than 800 missionaries to work in China, these eventually started more than 125 schools, resulting in the conversion of 18,000 people to Christianity.
They also established 300 missionary bases in the eighteen Chinese provinces with more than 500 local workers.
God calls long-term missionaries and Christians and churches willing to sustain them in the long term.
The challenges of the language and culture require a daily work of residence within the unreached ethnic group and a commitment to long-term work in order to connect with the local ethnic group, insert themselves in it and develop the missions of service, evangelization and discipleship that will result in the planting of new churches.
This requires Christians and churches that are persistent with the support developed by the
long-term missionaries.
Emotional bursts that last only a few months and then change their mind or become
faded do not work at all for projects to reach ethnic groups.
Short-term mission trips to be relevant must be properly connected with the processes
of long-term work that are carried out in that specific mission field.
The worker residing in the ethnic group must be consulted so that the tasks of the visitors are not a hindrance but a continuity of tasks focused on reaching the unreached ethnic group.
There are many missionary tasks that do not require long-term commitment but for the purpose of reaching an ethnic group this involvement is inescapable.
To start, develop and persevere in projects to reach an ethnic group requires the maturity of constant commitment.
Whether you are a “SENDER” or a “SENT”, we invite you to be part of those who write the true history of the missions with your long-term commitment.
Those for whom Jesus died deserve our effort.
To get involved in real projects to reach unreached ethnic groups, visit www.iglesiasenmision.org Church Team in Mision
Source: www.joshuaproject.net