What is a missionary?
What is a missionary and what is missions?! Good questions.... What are you up to now, Renate?! Where is this leading? Well... traditionally being a missionary has been traveling abroad to share the good news about Jesus to people who have never heard of him, and with that, also doing all kinds of jobs connected to that purpose - teaching, helping, leading, building schools and hospitals, living on income from a church, friends or others who believed in the persons "calling".... It has been going on in Norway and abroad, but traditionally we´ve been used to think of it as something that happends in foreign countries, mainly Asian and African, because the States have been portrayed as "Christian already" and Europe just the same. And - since we´ve been the country in the world sending out the most missionaries per capita, of course we haven´t seen much need for missionaries in our own country the last decades... maybe until now. This is what the English Wik...