...open the window...

An itinerant missionary travels to raise the budget so they can go back to the same field or transfer to another field like us. We know we are not returning to Jamaica, however we are not sure where we are going after itineration.

When we first started our missionary career in the eighties a missionary would call the pastor and ask for a service and in that service you would present your field, your calling, your present situation (how much money the budget was lacking) and then preach the Word.

Today, 27 years later a window may be the only option for the missionary in the morning service. Since many churches have stopped Sunday evening services and Wednesdays are smaller crowds, the pastor guards the Sunday morning service tightly since he only has 4 preaching times in a month. When a window is offered, the missionary takes it! A window is better than nothing. Without the church/missionary partnership, the missionary might as well kiss it good-bye.

In that window, you have to watch the clock closely as it may be only three minutes. If you are given a seven minute window you are really blessed! In those three minutes you talk really fast and present your life! Sometimes you wonder if it was even worth it! The most important thing a missionary can tell a church is "thank you" certainly you can do that in three minutes!

Today Denny was given a six minute window and guess what, he talked really fast and had one minute left over! Love those windows, of course, a missionary loves windows and doors! We are passionate about our calling! We will use anything to love on the churches that support us. Couldn't do anything without the partnership of the local church!