As a former LCMS missionary of 20 years, I see that you continue making the same mistakes which were made for the past 100 years of LCMS's mission programs. You continue to operate from a 'top down' management model rather than allowing the field to direct the mission strategies and methodologies. It would serve you well to interview some of the former missionaries who witnessed the failure of the LCMS mission programs. Learn from your mistakes or you will re-visit those mistakes. Sincerely Bill Timmons Lutheran Philippine Mission Lutheran Mission in Thailand