IF I COULD DO IT AGAIN

Missionaries Tex Williams, Dan Coker, Howard Norton, Wendell Broom, Phil Slate, Bill McDonough, Dan & Joyce Hardin, and Glover Shipp sat on a panel at the Global Missions Conference in Arlington, Texas, July 20-23, and shared the following advice with younger missionaries. All have spent their lives (40 or more years) in foreign missions.

If I could do it over again I would:

• Work more closely with governments
• Recruit more missionaries to come where I was working
• Wait until I was 30 years old to go
• Teach more on stewardship
• Would not argue as much about methodology
• Teach more on the participation of every Christian
• Teach Singing and how to Pray
• Work to lift people up
• Be supported by one church
• Do more graduate work in Bible and Missions
• Get more language training
• Learn more about how to train others
• Would start a school
• Work more with Children
• Stay on the field longer
• Spend more time with MY children
• Raise my children on the foreign field and put them in National schools
• Slow down expansion rate and take more time with new Christians
• Not give aid to people, but help them help themselves
• I'd do it again!