“Given the reality of the mission field today, it would be foolish for us to require all missionaries to leave their home cultures. The best current examples are in China, India and the former Soviet Union. There, millions still have not received the Gospel in villages that are within the cultural reach of existing congregations. Indigenous missionaries can be sent to them without crossing cultural barriers. They also can go to close by cultures where the barriers are relatively weak compared to what they would be for Western missionaries.”

~ K.P. Yohannan, Come Let’s Reach the World ~