Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Senior Missionaries - A Wonderful Resource!

Our mission is fortunate to have a number of "senior missionaries". Senior missionaries serve for 12-24 months. Typically they will be given one of the following three assignments for the duration of their mission: New Member Support; Family History Records Preservation or Office Support.



Joining a new church can be a daunting challenge. As such we often assign senior missionaries to help our new converts with this transition. In the inner city areas of Philadelphia and some other areas our senior missionaries are often required to go the extra mile. This includes providing transportation for things such as taking new converts to doctor's appointments and to church meetings. They also help them with budgeting issues, parenting challenges, employment opportunities, teaching them to read, and many other ways of providing uplift and encouragement in their daily lives.

In all cases our senior missionaries have sacrificed the comforts, security and stability of their prior "home life". For this we are very grateful and appreciative.

3 comments:

  1. YEAH a new post!!

    Senior couples are fantastic! What a wonderful service they are to members, new converts, wards and young missionaries.

    Thank you for giving of yourselves!
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  2. Great to see your blog, and the current senior missionaries. My husband and I were the office couple before Vollmers. We sure miss it all.
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  3. I served in the Philly mission and Elder Heyman was the Bishop who helped me get on my way. How fun to see him standing in the same place I served!
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