<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/summer-2003/my-summer-missionary.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>My Summer as a Missionary</title><excerpt>Maybe it seems strange to some that I, a 22-year-old with a lot to offer the world, would set aside the offerings of the world and come to South Africa to work among such intense suffering. My life in the United States was nice — great friends, great church family, great job and great potential. As Luke 12:48b says, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask more.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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