Creating Margin in Your Life
Many missionaries and particularly mission leaders complain about overload. Â Too many emails! Â The technological conveniences of email, Skype and Facebook have kept us much more closely connected to our supporting constituencies and loved ones back home than the missionaries of the past. Â But they also have greatly added to the onslaught of information that floods our lives and puts pressure on the time available for ministry in our host cultures. Â Often time set aside for personal development and training is the first to be sacrificed.
Missionary life was much different in our first term of service. Â No, I didn’t arrive on the mission field on a boat. Â But my career as a missionary (I was single back then) began before the era of the Internet, or at least the Internet as we know it today. Â Back in the early 90’s, we had no telephone in our home in the Philippines,… Read the whole post
Ken Guenther