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Language School
Stateside Assignment
Some missionaries in one of my classes at the Spanish Language Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica. I'm on the far right, our professor is standing next to me.
I was appointed by the IMB as a church planter. That means going to a geographical area where there are predominantly no evangelical churches, and planting a new church there. That's what I did in Costa Rica after graduating from language school. We built a church in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica.
After three or four years on the mission field, IMB missionaries would come back to the United States for what is called "stateside assignment." This follows the Biblical model of missionaries reporting to the churches that sent them out. During that time in the States, the IMB sends the missionary out to the churches and to different groups across the United States to speak about and promote the cause of world missions. Here I am speaking to some boys at the Central Hills Baptist Retreat in West, Mississippi, a Mississippi Baptist facility.
Church Planter
Mexico Operation GO
After serving in Costa Rica for 15 years, we were deployed to Mexico where more missionaries were needed. We served there for five years. We got involved in a project called Operation GO. The GO stood for Gospel Outreach. Using volunteer teams from the States, we would go into a residential area of a city and distribute the Gospel of John in Spanish, going door to door. In a typical week we would distribute as many as 5000 Gospels. We also followed that up with doing Bible studies in people's homes. We greatly enjoyed carrying out this ministry.
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