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Volunteer Missions Opportunities for Senior Adults
Volunteer Missions Opportunities for Senior Adults Author:Naomi Ruth Hunke What a challenge! Naomi Ruth Hunke has done a wonderful thing for Southern Baptists in her powerfully motivating and inspiring stories of real-life senior adults making their lives count for the Lord! No passage of Scripture teaches us about retirement from, or in, the Lord's service. I believe that God has a mission for each of us as long as He... more » leaves us here on earth.
Approximately one million Southern Baptists are retired. Most of them are in better health and have more wealth than any other previous generation. They are trained in Southern Baptist methods. The possess talents, spiritual gifts, and skills that churches in mission settings desperately need. Missions efforts need the Great Depression generation because they know how to work, how to save, and how to use available resources.
Considering these victorious experiences, I challenge every Southern Baptist senior adult, "Go, and do thou likewise" -- and in a little while, Betty Jo and I will join you!