An Offer I Can't Refuse

I spent the last week working with some missionaries from around the world.  There is a missions organization whose goal is to see the heart of Jesus in the skin of every culture. Ok. I am on board with that. The way they accomplish this is really a great idea. Instead of sending Americans everywhere to be the only missionaries, they recruit from other countries to visit neighboring countries. For example, they train people in Kenya, Africa to visit people in Uganda, Africa. There goes my summer vacation (I mean missions trip) to Africa.  At one event this past week the Asian director stood before the people to tell what he does. This is a kind man from Korea who probably thought he would honor our culture by giving credit to missionaries of the past. He started by showing a picture of a British missionary that came to Korea many years ago, then he showed his grave site in Korea to tell us he is buried there. Yes, honored by the Koreans. Then he showed us a young woman in her early twenties who lived only 9 months in Korea before being killed, and showed us her grave site as well.
Oh yes, there is a trend. Next we saw the graves of many missionary children that died in Korea, and pictures of their private cemetery.  He followed all this with a request. "We need more missionaries from America to come to Korea."
The funny part is that everyone I talked to actually caught his intent of honoring past missionaries. I guess I was the only one who thought "What the heck happened to all those other guys that we sent to you? They didn't fare so well did they? Why would I want my tombstone to be in your next slide show?" I thought his presentation would have been better if he had said, "come to Asia, we have good food" and showed pictures of cuddly panda bears instead.