My Mission Monday

Journeymen in India: Two Years of Touching Lives

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“If you can get a person’s heart turned to missions when he’s young, it’s an age when he can make a difference with his life,” states Kerry Corliss*, a missionary in India.

“That person can become a ‘global citizen’ that will impact the world both now and after his two-year experience, whether he or she ends up as an accountant in America or as a missionary.” Kerry, along with her husband, coordinates training for the two-year Journeyman program. During the two-year period, the journeymen are exposed to the major religions of India. The personnel take them to places of worship and help them to learn the culture and language.

Kerry says that they have unofficially partnered with East Cooper Baptist Church in South Carolina for the past three to four years. “The pastor,” relays Kerry, “was a journeyman in the past. He has chosen to invest in the journeymen of South Asia. He also gets college students of his church to do summer work, Hands-On, which is ‘a program for students that are taking a semester during college to come out and work.’ He hopes that they will become journeymen.”

Among the struggles the personnel and journeymen face in India are power outages, water shortages, learning a new language, and living in a big city with traffic and noise issues. Please pray for missionary Kerry, the personnel, and the journeymen.

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My mission for the week...

Make a sacrifice this week! Take some money you would have spent on extras and put it into an envelope marked "Missions". Keep adding until you hear of a group/person in your church/community who is going on a mission trip. Your gift of money may be greatly needed for trip expenses or can be used on the mission field.