{"id":6326,"date":"2023-08-24T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:43:52","slug":"missionaryto-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6326","title":{"rendered":"Missionary\u2026to where?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were meditating yesterday on “So Send I You<\/a>,” often called “the greatest missionary hymn of the 20th century.” I grew up with it. Today, the rest of the story: here’s what author Margaret Clarkson said about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1935 teaching jobs were so scarce that I had to take my first job as a teacher in a lumber camp some 1400 miles from home, out in the Rainy River District of northwestern Ontario. From there I moved to the gold mining camp of Kirkland Lake, 450 miles north of Toronto. In all, I spent seven years in the north. I experienced loneliness of every kind; mental, cultural, but particularly spiritual, for in all of those seven yeaars I never found real Christian fellowship \u2013 churches were modern <\/em>[not Bible-believing] and born-again Christians almost non-existent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was studying the Word one night and meditating on the loneliness of my situation and came in my reading to John 20, and the words \u2018So send I you\u2019. Because of a physical disability I knew that I could never go to the mission field, but God seemed to tell me that night that this was my mission field, and this was where He had sent me. I was then twenty-hree, in my third year of teaching.<\/em> – Margaret Clarkson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This was my mission field, and this was where He had sent me.” Where? To a mining camp in the middle of nowhere Canada. Doing what? Teaching school! The greatest missionary hymn of the 20th century was written by a schoolteacher. The hymn certainly applies to out-in-the-bush missionaries like Elisabeth Elliot<\/a>, but it applies to the rest of us too. Wherever we are, working at whatever we’re doing, God wants us to feel “on mission” and Join the Adventure!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he said to his disciples, \u201cThe harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.\u201d (Matthew 9.37-38)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were meditating yesterday on “So Send I You,” often called “the greatest missionary hymn of the 20th century.” I grew up with it. Today, the rest of the story: here’s what author Margaret Clarkson said about it: In 1935 teaching jobs were so scarce that I had to take my first job as a … Continue reading Missionary\u2026to where?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1E2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}