Advice for Missions in Remote Locations

What advice would you give someone considering missions work in a remote or tribal context?

Some advice that I would give to missionaries going to a remote context, going to a tribal context, going to a context where there is an unreached language group. First and foremost if you're considering that and you're in high school, college, post-college, talk to your church elders. That would be number one. I would start thinking through what cost is going to be. This is not a cost-free endeavor. I caught malaria I think it was around 15, my wife thinks it's around 17 times. There's just damage that happens to your liver. There's a few other things.

There's a cost associated with this, so look at that sober-mindedly. There's a reason why the last unreached language groups are the last ones. The easy way to say this is, “The easy places have been reached, the hard places remain.” To go to those types of places there will be a cost associated. Talk to your elders, measure the cost, start reading good biographies, and then get moving. Those are my primary pieces of advice for almost any missionaries.

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