Just trying to keep the house secure! We have bars on all the windows, cage doors on all entrance doors, a house alarm system that is answered by an armed security company, 2 gates that are locked at night, car alarm system, gear lock on the stick shift and a vicious little mutt that just killed a rat this morning!!! The question asked in this country is not 'if' you will get robbed, 'when' will you get robbed. By God's grace, mercy and protection nothing has happened to us.
It seems like your missionary life is different from all the missionaries that I ever saw and heard speak. I do not ever remember hearing about alarm systems, or armed security for protection. I heard about missionaries living in mud huts, or living like the people that they were ministering too.
I did not take a vow of poverty. I had to get over that same sterotype as we were looking at Job Descriptions. I have a wife and family to take care of. Some people have it 'better' than me and some have it 'worse' - as in living conditions. However, the ones that I am working with - some live worse and surprisingly some live better. Grant it, a majority do live worse - nothing we have would be a stumbling block or a hindrance to our ministry. If it was or if we identify something is, we will get rid of it.
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It's a bird.
It is a magnificent bird though, top of the food chain.
What is sitting on your fence?
I have a couple people still up there that got stuck in the razor wire!!
Razor wire? Where do you live? Are you a secret agent or something? Here I thought you were married with 5 kids.
Just trying to keep the house secure! We have bars on all the windows, cage doors on all entrance doors, a house alarm system that is answered by an armed security company, 2 gates that are locked at night, car alarm system, gear lock on the stick shift and a vicious little mutt that just killed a rat this morning!!! The question asked in this country is not 'if' you will get robbed, 'when' will you get robbed. By God's grace, mercy and protection nothing has happened to us.
It seems like your missionary life is different from all the missionaries that I ever saw and heard speak. I do not ever remember hearing about alarm systems, or armed security for protection. I heard about missionaries living in mud huts, or living like the people that they were ministering too.
I did not take a vow of poverty. I had to get over that same sterotype as we were looking at Job Descriptions. I have a wife and family to take care of. Some people have it 'better' than me and some have it 'worse' - as in living conditions. However, the ones that I am working with - some live worse and surprisingly some live better. Grant it, a majority do live worse - nothing we have would be a stumbling block or a hindrance to our ministry. If it was or if we identify something is, we will get rid of it.
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