Touching the foriegn field from the US

My first week at Lifeline is complete and I am already learning all the work that goes into working at a non for profit. When it comes to missions, people only think about work that is done on the foreign field. They often don’t think about all that must be done here in the US to make the work on the field possible. There is so much that must be done to send people on mission trips, to gain support in all forms, and to support those missionaries on the field. Those who work at offices like Lifeline are unsung heroes who keep the mission work in foreign countries up and running from the US. They do a lot of work that most people don’t even know needs to be done and that requires a lot of time and effort. This became apparent to me in a small way in the past two days. Today and yesterday I helped work on a two mass mailings that needed to be mailed out. One was two page letter that needed to go out to about 2200 people. I never knew how much work went into to getting a mailing like that ready! Today me and a volunteer worked on the letters, me all day and her a half day, and we still didn’t get them finish. In fact we only got half of them done. Even with a machine that printed the addresses on the envelopes and a machine that folder the letters it still took that long to stuff the envelopes. And they still need to be sealed and postage put on them. It really opened my eyes because I never would have known all the work it took and that is just one of the many things that are done stateside. There is a lot still to learn and I am glad to be here to be a part of this life changing work. Because whether we feel like it or not, the work we do here makes a huge impact on the field and I know it for a fact because I have seen it.