The big picture on resort missions

Resort missions is more than just reaching tourists with the gospel, and it's more than just living in paradise every day. Resort missionaries must be very creative, innovative, and willing to work long hours. Rarely are their nights and weekends to themselves, since that is when many events occur.

Many people jokingly say such missionaries are "suffering for Jesus" but in reality resort missionaries are never on vacation where they live. They struggle with the same high cost of living as those they are trying to reach - because the ministry is as much to those who work behind the scenes at low wages as to the tourists who crowd the streets.

And, in many locations there is no "down time" as resorts begin to market their properties as year-round vacation destinations.

NAMB has 30 resort missionaries and there are more than 100 who are actively involved at various levels through the local association. Such individuals extend the work through volunteers who are recruited from their communities.

For more information on this important area of service visit www.namb.net/evangelism/specialministries.

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