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Why training nationals is so important

May 11, 2012 by spanishpastor

  •        Nationals already speak their own language fluently.
  •        Nationals understand their own culture far better than missionaries ever will.
  •        Nationals are often willing to live on far less than American missionaries.
  •        Nationals do not get homesick for America.
  •        Nationals are not as likely to leave their ministry and move away due to ill health or because of reaching retirement age.
  •        Nationals do not need to make expensive trips to America for funerals, special events, furloughs, etc.
  •        America could never provide all the missionaries and finances required to evangelize the entire world adequately.
  •        Training nationals follows the Biblical principal found in 2 Tim. 2:2: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Missionary Calvin George taught for eleven years between two Bible colleges in Puerto Rico, because he fervently believes that trained nationals are the key to evangelizing our generation. He continues his teaching ministry from the Mexican border and his lectures are being used in seminary extensions in five countries. He does not receive a salary for teaching, being completely dependent on missionary support.

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  • Missionary quote

    People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives...and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.
    — Nate Saint
    If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged.
    — C. Gordon Olson
    The command has been to "go," but we have stayed – in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.
    — Robert Savage
    Oh, that I had a thousand lives, and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.
    — Robert Moffat

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