Comments on: Missionary Slide Shows

By: Big Gary

Big Gary — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:34:30 +0000

The phrase “You don’t know the half of it” (in response to JTR) keeps running through my mind.

By: Harp Girl

Harp Girl — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:15:28 +0000

She was pretty cool though. She ended up sitting with me and some friends at lunch during a field trip and taught us how to say “stupid” in Tagalog!

By: Harp Girl

Harp Girl — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:14:16 +0000

I had a Spanish teacher in high school who had been a missionary to the Philippines. Every class we tried to see if we could get her to start talking about her time there, so we could spend a little less time on Spanish verse memorization and such. The best days were when she would bring in her old slide shows, although it was a bit hard on her son, who was in the class. I imagine the last thing teenagers want is for the parent to show their whole class pictures of them in their fantastic toddler underoos and tell everyone how their pet monkey bit them on the butt when they were five

By: Darrell

Darrell — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:53:11 +0000

This still remains one of my favorite comments of all time.

By: pastor's wife

pastor's wife — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:54:29 +0000

I’ve heard those missionaries!!

I was always relieved when a missionary had a pre-recorded testimony to go along with his slides. That way he wouldn’t be tempted to extemporaneously expound on the miniscule details of all the people in his pictures!

By: MarkS

MarkS — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:19:14 +0000

Oh wow….. I had no idea that ALL fundy (and some non-fundy) churches were like this! lol.

By: exIFB

exIFB — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:43:51 +0000

a chapter? Did any of them try Psalm 119, just to be better than the others

By: faron

faron — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:32:25 +0000

My favorite was the moochinary family that showed up at our church half an hour late with their convoy of vehicles. I do not remember how many kids they had, but it was in the double digits. Each child had to quote a chapter of Scripture. Then each of the musical groups formed from the family had to sing a song. (It is amazing how many quartets you can form by arranging 15 kids into different units) Then came the slides, slides of their house, children at play, their hospital, grocery store, the grocery store in the next town and even slides of their midwife–no joking. (I suppose that was relevent because the wife looked like a doily-topped baby manufacturing machine.) Then the preaching started. Three hours later the service ended. Our church decided to support them in reaching their soon to be closed US Military base with a pre-closing population of 3000 soldiers.
At least we got to hang a German flag in our auditorium. (We did not support the one going to German nationals– but then he didn’t have any “courtship prospects for the pastor’s kids.)

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:13:19 +0000

Agh! A friend of ours is a missionary now and I JUST saw his presentation after reading this and its the SAME format as described here.

I wonder if there was actually a format taught in fundy u for that.

By: grace2live

grace2live — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:12:51 +0000

@Ken: we must have known the same missionary! Ours was from Africa and tended to talk A LOT about everyone he knew there. One time he showed a slide with eight different men in it and gave a detailed account of each and everyone, while his audience gritted their teeth and tried not to think about the dessert fellowship time that was to come at the end of the service, if there ever was an end. As he finished his dissertation–er, description–we breathed an audible sigh of relief. Until he clicked on the next slide. Which had approximately 483 people in it, all of whom had their own story that needed to be told. We had much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the dark.