Back in the mid-1990s, I took a stop-over in Honolulu on a trip back from South Korea where I had finished up a one-year teaching contract. I was there on a Sunday and had no idea about where to go to church or how I'd get there. I wondered the streets of Waikiki and found Waikiki Baptist Church. I got there before the service started.It was a small meeting and I struck up a conversation with a retiree also traveling from South Korea who was there temporarily as well. We went out to eat. I believe he was single. He could have been a widower That detail is a bit fuzzy. But he had a military retirement check, and he took his income and went to South Korea to spend it on orphans. But South Korea had gotten richer. I believe he was thinking of going down to Indonesia or some other Southeast Asian country to take care of orphans there where the needs were greater. He was spending his retirement check on ministry.I also met an English preacher who'd spent a lot of time in Scotland who inherited some money and went with his wife to Indonesa, rented a house, and started an orphanage (or 'care home.') I met him preaching at an Indonesian language church. His wife translated. He invited my wife and me out to see his orphage.During much of our lives a lot of us have either money or time. There are times you don't have much of either (e.g. if you go to grad school.) But you can have money, maybe, while your working. And you could have time when you are unemployed.A good thing about being retired is that, hopefully, there is a retirement check. I'm wondering if any of you have a dream, or maybe just a thought you have entertained about retirning and going overseas to do missions. How about spending that time to devote yourself to ministry in your own country? For those of you who have retired, how has retirement opened up ministry opportunities
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