9 tips for life on mission: retired missionaries offer advice for the next generation

The 20-year-old stopped letters. Within the old -fashioned communication style, there were encouraging words and advice for the missionary of the new international mission committee.

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The letters confirmed the words that Zoe Hill in the first Baptist Church Columbia, Mississippi, from the retired IMB missionaries Tom and Gloria Thurman, who personally heard countless times:

1. The call of a believer is about giving up everything the world offers to follow Jesus.

2. His word is better and true.

However, Hill's favorite advice came when 91-year-old Tom pulled her aside before she went to mission training. She wanted to serve in an area of ​​the world in which Christianity is not always welcome. He knew that hard days came, so he advised:

3. If they hate you; Tell them to reject Jesus; Throw stones and dirt on the face and don't want to do anything with you, remember, Jesus is better. They are there to sow the gospel seeds. Let the Holy Spirit work in his timing.

“Here is this man who was a missionary in a country with civil wars, sin and a lot of hatred that I stick to something,” said Hill. “It means so much because he and Miss Gloria lived it and continue to capture them so firmly that 'Jesus is better.”

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Note from the publisher – this story was written by Sue Sprenkle and originally published by the International Mission Board.