Remembering the "Good Old Days"

In many aspects, the early days of the mission work here seem more "old" than "good", as we look back on them. I plan to eventually post photos and historical notes here, but for the time being, I am linking to an article I read recently in the BPNews (a service of the Southern Baptist Convention). The writer's description of making telephone calls and getting parcels through the mail on the mission field was our experience. I was thinking today about how everyone has a cell phone and we have broadband internet connections; how strange it seems to think back to our first years here, when we signed up to have a telephone installed in our house and had to wait five years until they built a new telephone exchange in our village.

Read the article. It's worth your time.

One of the difficulties of serving as a missionary is battling the oppressive feeling that you are laboring alone, buried in obscurity and forgotten. The struggle is harder when you are serving in a country where the general population doesn't even want you to be there. It grows heavier when friends from home forget to write. The devil tempts you to believe that they have also forgotten to pray and that you are making no difference....more