Missions Sunday

Tomorrow is Missions Sunday at my church. Missionaries are a special breed of folks who sacrifice a lot (sometimes more than they know) to live in a different place, speak a different language, eat different foods. They deal with homesickness, illnesses, and power outages, and they count all of these things as light and momentary troubles.

Tomorrow we'll try to raise the salaries for two missionary families. I'm trying not to worry, but it's a tough time to be asking people to give beyond their normal giving. The up side is that because of the global nature of the economic crisis, the dollar is, ironically, strong compared to other currencies.