This post is my own response to an article in “Askamissionary.com” “What do Missionaries wish they had known before they first went?”
Pray for our Health Feb 14, 2025 This is an update and request for our health.
We write, print, and distribute our own tracts. We are fully into Tract production. I feel that full-color literature gets into people’s hands better, and they are more likely to read it.
Many times in our day and age, a missionary needs to get some piece of information to people who are computer illiterate. That means sending a paper and ink letter. When the postal service in the country is just not up to par (I have had a letter from Mexico to the US take up to 6 months to get there, and many times they get lost in the mail), you need some other way of getting that letter out.
ISIS and Mexican Cartels in Common is a commentary on an article by this name in alternet.org.
Resumen: This post explains what is a missionary “biblical speaking”. It examines the Bible to see how the concept is developed in the New Testament, and how it should be understood by us, and how we should obligate “missionaries” to be.
Pragmatics, Immigration, and Democrats explains some background understanding about Latino immigrates and their pragmaticism, and how this interacts with the Democratic Party give-aways. In our previous post, we looked at how dangerous Mexico is, and we examined the cartel aspect of life in Mexico. Now we want to turn to the philosophical reasons behind this phenomenon. Why are these people like this?
This article was originally written on June 1, 2017.
Missionary Deputation and Donor Software This is a review of Missionary Software
First of all, these principles are basic art class principles. Color is extremely useful in presentations, but note that there are some rules to observe.
Most missionary presentations use very few title slides, but some use a background kind of effect with an image within that “frame”, and a title. The frame and title would be where you would apply the principles in this post.
There is a very useful and nice program called VideoScribe that allows you to make a whiteboard type video, where a hand actually draws the image. These color balancing tips come from their website (you don’t have to use their program to follow this tip). I will use there images and add logos of companies to illustrate what they say.
http://www.sparkol.com/blog/captivate-your-audience-with-these-pro-colour-tips/
I will summarize the rules here.
In this brief video, Tara Sophia Mohr (not identified as a Christian) speaks in general about identifying your calling in life.
See video at end of this post…
I would note that this is just a simple motivation type talk where Tara speaks in general to anybody about their calling in life. What I took away from this is that this is exactly what you as a missionary need to understand and present to your potential missionary partners so that they understand your calling. One thing is that you are called (not all missionary candidates are called by the way), and another thing is to communicate that calling to others, especially those that support you, and those that potentially are considering supporting you. This means that you need to highly persuade them of your calling. The elements that Tara presents are very useful in this task.