A Missionary Manual

Everything you need to know to plan a successful short-term missions trip from an authoritative source. Packed with comprehensive, down-to-earth, practical information.

OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... than the missionary committee. Choose these goals early in the term of office. Be specific: so many books to be read by each member; so much money to be given; so many missionary meetings to be held; so much information to be presented and mastered. Do not be too ambitious, or you will accomplish nothing; but anything is better than not being ambitious enough! In Every Meeting.-- Seek to get into every regular prayer meeting of the society something about missions. Nearly every topic presented to our Christian Endeavor societies has its missionary aspect. Appoint different members of the committee in turn to develop this side of the theme. The Committee Organized. -- Subdivide the work of the committee so that each may know what he has to do, and be responsible for some particular task. One may be the secretary; another the treasurer, and have charge, not only of the collecting of money, but of the Tenth Legion, and of other spurs to increased benevolence. Another may be librarian, unless it seems best to give the library in charge of some Endeavorer outside the committee. At any rate, he will seek to promote missionary reading and study. Still another will be corresponding secretary, and carry on the letter-writing. The relief work will be placed in the hands of another, the missionary meetings in the hands of another, the missionary socials will be assigned to another, the work in newspaper and magazine clipping to another, and so on. Each committeeman will be chairman of the entire committee for the purpose of carrying on his especial work; and each month, for the sake of variety and drill, these tasks will be shifted. The Nucleus.-- It may not be possible at once to organize a missionary study class in your society, outside of the...