"National church leaders in many of the areas receiving so many experience-seekers are too polite to say anything, but wonder privately what has taken place: "Whatever happened to the old time missionaries who would sacrificially give of themselves for those to whom they were called to live, work, and incarnate the gospel ? "
(EMQ January 2004, Column- A second Look "Changes at Home" Gary Corwin, associate editor of EMQ.)
"A veteran Christian teacher in Beijing has had enough of short- term visitors from her home country. "I used to think I could give them a briefing and orientation that could be helpful," she told a mission agency leader. "Very few ever listened. They all have their own agenda. All they want is instant results." The woman now refuses to meet with such people and does not consider them to really be ministering to China. (Stan Guthrie, Missions in The Third Millennium, pg 85. 2000, paternoster Press, )
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