Three missionaries in the Philippines
Daniel Kleyn addresses the theological and practical rationale behind the Protestant Reformed Churches' decision to send three missionaries to the Philippines, grounding the practice in biblical precedent (Christ sending disciples two by two) and apostolic practice. The article defends this missional strategy while acknowledging questions about resource allocation and the capacity of local churches, providing insight into how the PRC approaches foreign mission work and church planting.
Our churches have undertaken something we have never done before in our mission work, namely, we have called and sent three missionaries to work together on one mission field. It was already a significant undertaking to begin calling (in 2008) and then to send (in 2009) two missionaries to the Philippines. Now we have three. From our perspective as missionaries, as well as from the perspective of the churches and saints here in the Philippines, this is reason for much gratitude to God. He, the...
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