Word document with puzzle grid
Challenge: Can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book? If not, then use this online PDF of Discovering Missions to find the answers!
| ACROSS | ||
| 5 | A British Baptist minister who in the 1800s said, "Do not enter the ministry if you can help it." | |
| 7 | One area in which mission boards want prospective missionaries to be healthy | |
| 9 | A man who was told by his denominational mission board, "We cannot send you to South America. But if God has called you, you will go or backslide spiritually."* | |
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | An Old Testament character whose misgivings about whether God was really calling him led him to do some unusual things to clear up the uncertainties before proceeding | |
| 2 | One thing mission boards look for in prospective missionaries | |
| 3 | The role that a pastor plays for a member of his/her congregation who feels called to missionary service | |
| 4 | An Old Testament person to whom God's call came in a dramatic vision | |
| 6 | One position that today's missionaries rarely fill | |
| 8 | The ranking of "personal incompatibility" in the list of causes of shortened missionary careers and failure of missionaries to achieve their potential | |
*Note: Is it possible for people to backslide and "lose" their salvation?
-- Howard Culbertson,
Based on material in the book Discovering Missions by Charles Gailey and Howard Culbertson, published by Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City (now known as The Foundry)
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