Hey everyone, I need some advice. I believe God may be calling me to some sort of missions work in the future. I am currently a college student finishing my second year of majoring in biomedical engineering. I think that the missions work God may have for me could involve using my profession as a biomedical engineer to work in a "closed" country, endeavoring to bring the gospel to unreached people. The advice I'm looking for right now would be on the training and education necessary for being a reformed missionary. Would any sort of seminary education be necessary if I were to only be a missionary's associate, working as a supporter with an ordained missionary? What if I were to be directly involved in preaching the gospel-would I need to be an ordained missionary if my denomination, the OPC, were to send me? And if I need to be ordained for the OPC, or an other reformed church or missions organization, to send me, what sort of education would that require? Could I get by with a certificate from a reformed seminary focused on missions, or would it be necessary for me to get a master's degree? And if a master's degree were necessary, would it matter which type?
Thanks for any advice you can give as I contemplate my future.

In Christ,

~Dan

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Dan Dorman
Member of Pilgrim OPC in my hometown-Bangor, Maine
Currently attending Christ the King OPC in Longview, Texas, where I am a college student

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