The Dilemma of ‘Weekend Missionaries’

The Dilemma of ‘Weekend Missionaries’ (Do absolute rules become relative when you’re spreading the Gospel?) (February 1980) – On May 26, 1979, Melvin Bailey, a 32-year-old Christian pilot from Newport News, Virginia, left the USA in a rented Piper aircraft on a mission to Cuba. Accompanying him was a 31-year-old former schoolteacher, Tom White. They were carrying 750 pounds of Spanish-language, pro-Christian, anti-Communist leaflets sealed in plastic which they intended to scatter from the air over the island. Things went wrong…

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