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Part of my career included writing for an evangelical missions magazine about churches that volunteered to assist missionaries overseas. Whether the task was to share the gospel on the street, preach in churches, work in orphanages, conduct religious surveys, or assist with construction projects, the volunteers often worked in physically and spiritually challenging situations.

Volunteers originated from within churches and the people usually paid their own way. They sacrificed vacation days to invest in Kingdom work overseas. The testimony volunteers almost never changed. Consistently the...