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We offer this quote in the hopes that it will challenge you to consider the foreign mission field. Perhaps you could be the first person to tell a group of Mongolians about Jesus Christ. Truly, the harvest is plenteous, but the workers are few. There is work for all who are willing.
"Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest. Laborers say they are overtaxed at home; what, then, must be the case abroad, where there are wide-stretching plains already white to harvest, with scarcely here and there a solitary reaper?
"To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European, and as the band of missionaries was few compared with the company of ministers at home, it seemed to me clearly to be my duty to go abroad.
"But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of commonsense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'God into all the world and preach'. This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command; and in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home."
-- the words of James Gilmour,
Missionary to Mongolia.
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