"Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."Colossians 3:12-14
Do you know the number one reason that missionaries leave the “mission field” today? It is not because of finances, nor is it lack of ability to reach the people you’re working with; it is because of interpersonal relationships. Not being able to get along with other believers that you’re working with on the field. Missionaries are just like anybody else; they have real struggles, and struggle with pride and selfishness just like anybody else.
Some of the things we talked about this week were: Loving Listening, Drawing People Out, Helping Others Solve Problems, Confronting, Receiving Confrontation, Building Personal Trust, Living in Community, Managing our Conflicts, Helping Others Manage Conflicts, Helping Others Grieve well, Managing Stress, Maintaining Margin, The Battle for Moral Purity, and Being an Encourager. These topics took about a week to cover and we were blessed by our instructors who so humbly shared their experiences and facilitated our times together.
We both felt it was so practical as we are heading to work with 
a team in the Chilcotin, and how badly we do not want to be one of the statistics in missions. We know this information will provide lots of knowledge in the many years to come.
We were also blessed to have our Native Ministry director and his wife here with us as we went through the week; they went through it as well. It was wonderful as we could talk about the future when we get to BC, and some of how it will be once we get there.
