Good Missionary biographies are at once engrossing and instructive. When God Comes Calling excels at both. It starts out as an autobiography by Ted Fletcher, the founder of Pioneers, a missions agency that seeks to bring the Gospel the least reached and most inaccessible people groups on earth. Fletcher tells about hearing the Gospel on the front lines of the Korean War as a Recon Marine. After the war Fletcher became one of the senior editors of the Wall Street Journal. Yet in all of that success, he and his wife Peggy, felt a call to be part of something more eternally significant. After years of being rejected by traditional missionary agencies, they decided to start their own - Pioneers.
In the second half of the book, Fletcher leaves his story behind and instead tells of the amazing things God has done through Pioneers. I found it instructive that even in his autobiography Fletcher rarely talked about himself, but wrote about the men and women of Pioneers, those who have come to faith through their work, and above all - His Savior.
The last chapter is a beautiful tribute to Ted, and God's work in and through him written by his wife Peggy.
Sarah and I hope to join Pioneers this year in preparation for missions work in Southeast Asia. This book has confirmed that this agency has a Christ-centered, Gospel-driven ethos and we look forward of becoming a small part of the faithful legacy that God has given the Fletchers.
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