Missionaries gather in historic meeting

Sixty of CMF’s 160 on-the-field missionaries were together at the same time in the same place recently, the largest gathering of the organization’s missionaries in its 61-year history.

The historic day was Thursday, July 29, when the missionaries who were attending the 2010 furlough retreat at Ft. Harrison State Park in Indianapolis traveled south to Brown County State Park near Nashville, Indiana. The yearly Celebration for the CMF Globalscope campus ministry teams, held this year in Nashville, overlapped the furlough retreat, and nearly all of the 40 Globalscope campus ministers attended. The two groups met for a picnic and fellowship and enjoyed sharing stories and becoming better acquainted with one another.

The furlough retreat is held each year for missionaries who are back in the U.S. to renew ties with families, churches and partners. During the retreat the missionaries are honored for their work, participate in study sessions, and enjoy various recreational activities with their families.