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Originally Posted by Pilgrim  Both the foreign mission field and the home mission field are white for harvest. There are great needs in both places. As Pergy has pointed out, the nature of the need is different with those with no Bible in their language, etc. Also keep in mind the numbers of immigrants to the USA. As one pastor told me once, it's almost like having a foreign mission field here in our midst. |
One point of clarification: the symantical term, "
foreign mission field," should no longer be in our vocabulary today. The definition of "foreign" is
"strange" or
"unfamiliar." It is a term based on historic England missionaries who went to
"foreign" lands
strange and unfamiliar to them. Additionally, calling someone a "foreigner" contains the same definition with it. With America today being widely diverse, people, cultures and countries are not "foreign" anymore.
(Accept maybe when visiting my extended family. They sure are foreign to me.) Instead, the term we use today is "international." Companies are international, not foreign. People are international, not foreign. Thus, the SBC had changed their
Foreign Missions Board into
International Missions Board.