The world is small.

Many of my friends who are in missions full-time or were at some point will agree with this statement:

Missions makes the world smaller.

Obviously it doesn't make the world physically smaller. Come on. Christians would pretty much have a corner on physics if this were true.

I'm talking about how the distance between people is so infinitesimally critical when you are a missionary. Even having been apart from missions for over a year, I still manage to run into people with whom we have a mutual friend, family-member, or person who taught in a school we were in.

Take this person for example:



My fellow Salem Winter DTSers know this person. SHE WAS IN MY HOUSE TONIGHT!!!! She's marrying a good friend of my brothers. My family has been good friends with his family for about 10 years now and we know them primarily through YWAM.

I got to talk to her about what's happened in the time since we last saw each other, what she and her soon-to-be husband are planning on doing, and what's become of the other people that our DTS worked with while in Kampong Cham, Cambodia.

It's true, missions does make the world smaller. Just do a DTS, wait some inordinate amount of time. You will run into someone you met after being separated by distance and time.

Just watch.