{"id":4253,"date":"2014-08-16T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T20:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2020-02-17T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T09:44:07","slug":"what-missionaries-really-do-on-furlough-the-surprising-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/what-missionaries-really-do-on-furlough-the-surprising-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"What Missionaries Really Do on Furlough? The Surprising Truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Wow, that’s a lot of vacation time!” exclaimed a lady I met while we were traveling through Chicago last month.<\/div>\n

It’s not the first time someone has commented on our “vacation” in the States. \u00a0While we live and serve most of the time in Ukraine, we spent the last ten months in the US.<\/p>\n

Some call this time in our home country “furlough” and others call it “home ministry.” Regardless of what it’s called it seems that there are a lot of misconceptions about what it is and exactly what missionaries are doing during this time.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never served as a missionary long-term, like at least four years, then you probably don’t have a good understanding of furlough. I’d like to help you with that and the best way I know how is to simply tell you about our ten months in the States.<\/div>\n

Speaking<\/h4>\n

Let’s start with the most obvious. During our ten months in the US we do a lot of speaking! We focused on speaking with churches and groups that support our ministry but we also spoke in other settings.<\/p>\n

Our goal in speaking was to enlarge people’s vision of what God is doing in the world by showing them what God is doing in Ukraine. We also focused on calling people to boldly share Christ and serve the church no matter where they live.<\/p>\n

In all we had the opportunity to speak about 75 times during our furlough.<\/p>\n

We visited and spoke at 30 churches:<\/div>\n
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