Eunice Jones rejoins The Same Commission podcast conversation in Season Three to reflect on what it is like being single as a mission partner. She shares the particular challenges and blessings that come along with being single, speaking from her experiences serving in a South Asian country. Matt and Jim look with Eunice at some of the cultural expectations that surround people who are not married, and explore with Eunice how we here in the UK can support and pray for mission partners who are single.

with Eunice Jones

Eunice Jones, now living in Wales, was a mission partner in South Asia, commended in 1989 until 2020. Today she is still involved in social media outreach, encouraging believers in South Asia. She is also working on translation projects for Bibles and Christian resources and makes sure these translations are recorded and distributed by media, for example through local radio.

“It’s the same way I don’t want to do anything that would grieve my heavenly father, so that commitment to purity, without someone putting parameters there, but the choice to live a pure life is part of that relationship and it is quite powerful to be able to share that. The real big divide between Islam and Christianity is that for us God is not our boss, when He’s looking at you to make sure you are toeing the line, He’s your father and you choose to please Him, because you want to, because of that relationship that’s underlying there so I think that being single was helpful in that way to be able to share” – Eunice Jones, Mission Partner, South Asia

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong, General Director, Echoes International, Matt Pitts, Missions Director, Echoes International and Eunice Jones, mission partner (South Asia)

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KEYWORDS: Mission; Mission partners; Gospel; Christian; Brethren; Believers; Single; Singleness; Marriage; Married; blessed; challenges; families; relationships; friends; colleagues; work; unmarried; unattached; isolation; unwed; family; home; relationship