Questions you would ask Missionaries

IMO, churches need to stop taking on so many missionaries because they are unable to keep up with all of them, not money wise but holding them accountable. 

And by cutting the number, the church would be able to support them for more on a monthly bases, and also, the church would be able to be more personable to each missionary they take on for support. 
 
aleshanee said:
hawaii has a bad history of being abused by self serving people posing as missionaries...... if you look at the names and the histories of the wealthiest families in hawaii today it;s all the same names and same families as people who came here as missionaries over 2 centuries ago....... yes....... they built churches.......but then they also invested in property and businesses and in the end did very well for themselves..... today their descendants wield enormous power in the islands they claimed to be coming to convert for Christ.....in the end they made many times more dollars than they did converts...........and it is what they are best known for........  [/font][/size][/color]
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Dole?
 
My wife and I just got accepted as missionary appointees for a bible camp. The first thing people ask is "why don't they just pay you so you don't have to raise support?" They don't stop to think of the obvious question that follows theirs; "where would that money come from?"

Either way, someone is raising "support".
 
The Big Five was the name given to a group of what started as sugarcane processing corporations that wielded considerable political power in the Territory of Hawaiʻi during the early 20th century and leaned heavily towards the Hawaii Republican Party. The Big Five were Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., American Factors (now Amfac) and Theo H. Davies & Co..[1] The extent of the power that the Big Five had was considered by some as equivalent to an oligarchy. Attorney General of Hawaii Edmund Pearson Dole, referring to the Big Five, said in 1903, "There is a government in this Territory which is centralized to an extent unknown in the United States, and probably almost as centralized as it was in France under Louis XIV."[2]

Alexander & Baldwin diversified and remains in business. Today it owns about 91,000 acres (370 km²) of land and is the fifth-largest landowner in the state.


Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_%26_Baldwin
 
Sanford Ballard Dole Facts
The American statesman Sanford Ballard Dole (1844-1926) was president of the Republic of Hawaii and, after its annexation to the United States in 1898, first governor of the Territory of Hawaii.

Sanford Dole was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on April 23, 1844, the son of Protestant missionaries from New England. He grew up on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai and went to missionary schools run by his father. He left the islands to attend Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where he spent a year. After another year in a Boston law office, he was admitted in 1868 to the Massachusetts bar. But that same year he returned to Honolulu to practice law. He showed a good deal of interest in community affairs and often wrote for newspapers. In 1873 he married Anna P. Cate of Maine.

http://biography.yourdictionary.com/sanford-ballard-dole

Is this where the term "rich missionary" originates?

This is not a modern phenomenon. You would think Hawaii would be a total Christian area by now.
 
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