Imagine being dropped into a distant land where they don’t speak your language and most of their customs are different. You are a competent adult who is used to taking care of yourself, but suddenly the basics – how you work, the food you eat, how you shop, interpersonal communication…everything is different. You almost feel like a toddler. You were a leader and now you can barely order coffee at a café with confidence.
The first few months on the mission field are tough. Not just the work, but doing daily life. Almost all of your relationships are new. Perhaps the most difficult time is the first year when you feel like nearly all of your life skills are back to square one. Please be in prayer for missionaries across the world who struggle with homesickness, loneliness, and building new friendships as they answer the calling our Heavenly Father has given them.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, please place Your hand over Your missionaries. Like Paul before them, guide them and stand beside them. Bring them comfort and peace. Bring people into their lives to work beside them and carry their burdens. Please bless their ministries to strengthen and enlarge Your Kingdom
