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The responsibility to send, care for, and receive back missionaries belongs to the church, or, more spe- cifically, to the local church from which they are sent. The church is strangely absent, however, from the most common paths to mission followed by missionaries.  There is a better way. There is a way for the church to join in the work on the field and not leave her sent ones alone.
 
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