Do You Speak the Language?

2023-11-09T15:37:48-07:00

by Loren Gjesdal Imagine that in six months you were committed to depart for an overseas missionary ministry.  What are some of the things you would use the next few months to do? I suspect that you would invest considerable time researching the country you were going to be working in. What language is spoken? How much of it could you learn in six months? What is the culture like? What do they value, what are their norms and customs, what is the most common religion, what are its doctrines? I suspect you would use all this information with one overarching [...]