Following God's Call: Individual Volunteers in Mission
Stories about missions,by volunteers who have been there Every year, more than 100,000 people serve in the United Methodist Volunteers In Mission programs. Walter and Betty Whitehurst, longtime leaders in the program, have gathered the thoughts and comments of several dozen long-term individual volunteers and presented them in this compelling book.Truly a kaleidoscope of the Volunteers-in-Mission movement as told by the volunteers themselves. It offers a candid view of the joys, as well as the challenges and perils, of volunteers€™ ministries. -H. Hasbrouck Hughes, Jr., Bishop (Retired), The United Methodist Church From hundreds of stories, touching people and places around the world, we learn something about who God is and how we are called to live lives that €œbecome the Gospel.€ This is a volume to be savored! -Harriett Jane Olson, Deputy General Secretary, Women€™s Divisio