What does a missionary look like?
When you picture a missionary, what do they look like? Quite often in response to that question I think we tend to picture missionaries as American ( or at least white people ). But it's exciting to realize that many missionaries to foreign countries are NOT from the US, not white, and that number is growing every day. Check out the photo above and you'll see a bunch of missionaries in Central America ( and one white guy ). At the end of September we held two key Young Life trainings in Nicaragua . The first was with seven Nicaraguans who are now ministering with Young Life in Honduras , El Salvador and Guatemala. These are missionaries who have left home and family to live in foreign lands and build up teams to minister to teens and they are a remarkable group. We also held a training for 35 YL Area Directors from 7 different countries , who really are leading lots of folks to be missionaries into the world of teenagers in their own neighborhoods. Both of these times