Too Valuable to Lose

This book deals with the research into why missionaries quit the mission field. They are especially concerned what they call "preventable" reasons. For example the top preventable reason for missionary attrition is "lack of home support" at 6.2% of all missionary attrition.
Other major preventable reasons include:-

• Problems with peers (i.e. other missionaries)- 5.9%
• Personal concerns - 4.9%
• Disagreement with agency - 4.7%

If you start adding up these "preventable reasons", you get a large proportion of missionaries going home for preventable reasons. It costs churches hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare and send missionaries long term. They are too valuable to lose not just in monetary terms, but more importantly in terms of the work they leave behind.

• Please pray the decrease of preventable reasons for missionary attrition.
• Pray that missionaries receive adequate home support and that they have get along with other missionaries.

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