otice to all AFM missionaries:

Due to falling prices of print services worldwide, and due to the rapid spread of Internet access and radio and TV coverage in developing countries, a cost-benefit analysis has determined that sending you to unreached people groups is no longer cost-effective. Instead, we will begin targeting the unreached with media campaigns over the airwaves and online, and we will mail Bible translations and study guides to them en masse.

Thanks for all your hard work, but you’re fired.

Of course, I’m kidding. (All AFM missionaries breathe a collective sigh of relief.) AFM is a missionary-sending organization after all. But, really, why do we bother when there are so many other ways to communicate the gospel? The written word of God is powerful and transforming. For those who cannot read the Bible, there are a growing number of radio and television broadcasts carefully designed to lead them to its Author. What role remains for the missionary, that lowly foot soldier in the age of cyberspace?
I’m not going to tell you. I’ll leave that to Braden Pewitt (p 44).

As you read Adventist Frontiers this month, in the back of your mind, contemplate Jesus’ words to His disciples: “Again Jesus said, ‘Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.’ And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:21, 22). Why did He have to come to this earth in person? Why does He send us in person?