Missionaries know spreading the gospel may cost them their lives.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2001 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: James D. Davis

It's in the back of just about all missionaries' minds: Spreading the gospel may someday cost them their lives. And maybe those of their families.

They may be killed by hostile locals. They may be caught in a revolution. Or they may be in a plane shot down in a tragic mistake, as happened last weekend with several missionaries over Peru.

"I think missionaries always think about that," said Kenneth D. MacHarg of Miami-based Latin America Mission. "They can't let it stop them from doing their job. But they recognize that they're serving the Lord. And if you die, you prepare to die for the Lord."

It's a tenet of most forms of Christianity, ever since the first apostles were martyred for obeying Jesus' command to "make...

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