The path James Perkins has taken to become an International Mission Board missionary is not your typical story.
He’s been a soldier, during which time he served a one-year deployment in Afghanistan, then has owned a grocery store. But the call to missions became evident this past January.
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“For a few years, I knew God was calling us to do more,” he said. “We needed to pray about it and fully submit to God. Submitting was probably the biggest part of that. Everybody is chasing the American dream and, when you do that, you become selfish. In the winter of 2022, I had a grocery store, my wife was teaching, and for both of us every Sunday school lesson, every sermon and devotional, all seemed to be pointing to missions and that God was calling us to do that.”
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Chip Hutcheson and originally published by Kentucky Today.
