Taylor too valuable

Points to the coming of age of Latin American missions in the 1987 Comiban meeting in Sao Paulo. (143)1
1995 1,764 cross cultural missionaries working overseas, average growth of 9% a year.2 (144)
economic stability linked with increase with sending missionaries.(144)3
Tendency of Brazilian missionaries to concentrate where they can speak Portuguese and Spanish.4 (144)
c.70% of missionaries sent by Brazilian agencies or churches.5 (145)
Only 18% of Brazilian agencies are Pentecostal, the others are traditional or interdenominational.6 (146)
points to financial difficulties, inadequate training, lack of commitment and personal and character issues amongst missionaries as the main causes of attrition.(which Limpic places at 7% a year; far away from popular claims of 15%)7 (149-150)
higher attrition amongst newer agencies.8 (150)
positive attitude towards support agencies provide for missionaries, with weakness in formal support and the education of missionary children.9 (151)
training for missionaries tends to be provided by agencies themselves.10 (152)

Points to the fact that from the start of the 20th century the Assemblies of God, Baptists and Presbyterians in Brazil have sought to share the gospel with other Latin American nations and Portugal.11 (183) Role of YWAM and other youth agencies in stimulating interest even further. (183)12
Candidates vary in social and educational background, but tend to be mainly young (184)13
Points to the role of the AMTB in setting standards for screening and sending missionaries, which are not always followed by all agencies.(186)14
Latin America, problem with an overemphasis on the visible and superficial. (188)15
Brazilian missionaries said to have problems taking Portuguese people seriously, and Portuguese often do not accept Brazilian workers.16 (188)
problem of loneliness and lack of extended family for many L. American missionaries. (189)17

refers to the role of the jeitinho in Brazilian culture and the conflict caused when Brazilian missionaries resort to this technique on the field.18 (213-214)

Oswaldo Prado: refers to missionaries returning broken, or refusing to return from mission field. (314)19
A Nasser: lack of preparation for Brazilian missionaries to work in teams, especially international ones. (316)20
Both Prado and Nasser refer to the problem of a lack of clarity in the roles of the sending church and the agency. (321)21