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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5126006" data-attributes="member: 19675">OOooohhh...first, a word of warning: I'm 42, single, and a perpetual student.  I have a BA, a JD, an MBA, and I'm currently working on a degree in Conflict Resolution/Negotiation.You might think that going back to school as an adult is going to be psychologically easy, but that could be a pitfall.  As a family man, you're going to have all kinds of day-to-day pressures that a single person might not.  Even if your family is super-supportive, your studies are going to take away from "Jack-time."IOW, don't fall into that trap!I mean, I hope you do find it easy, but take the time to keep a healthy balance between your family and your vocation.  I'm a Catholic, so we don't have many married priests (we do get a certain number of converts, though), so I suspect that those faiths that DO have married clergy as an ordinary part of the hierarchy view achieving and maintaining that balance between family, flock and faith as a key to fitness to perform those duties.Second, about being a missionary.I run into a lot of Africans who have moved to the Dallas/FW area.  Almost to a man, those I've met point out that the Catholic church was important to them for the missionary work they did...even the non-Catholics.  The consensus hasn't been as strongly favorable towards missionaries of other faiths.  For the most part, it seems that their compliments about the Catholics are in regards to the stability & resources the Catholic missionaries bring and respect they show the natives.  They're trying to convert people, yes, but they don't cram Bibles down the throats of the people asking for rice and education.  Perhaps you can do a little research and use that as a potential model.</blockquote>

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