Ron & Bonnie Koteskey provide care for missionaries both through materials on their websites and through being personally present. Here are examples from earlier this month. July 1: Ron sat at the computer gathering statistics about the activity on their websites during the month of June, data for the monthly GO report. He found that more than 3700 different people from more than 100 countries had visited the websites. During June, these people had viewed nearly 40,000 pages on the websites, downloaded more than 1300 books and viewed or downloaded more than 9000 brochures. All of these items were free of charge and granted permission for forwarding them to anyone who might need them. Later in the day Ron received an email from a young man within weeks of departing for a two year term of missionary service. However, for several years this young man had struggled with pornography and continued to do so. He had "stumbled onto this website" and asked to meet personally. July 5: Ron & Bonnie began a four-day conference with a small agency which had 17 missionaries attending. They were to be available for appointments with any missionaries who wanted to meet in confidence. Six of the missionaries made appointments, but Ron & Bonnie wanted to make sure that all missionaries had a chance to meet them personally. At each meal in the cafeteria they asked different missionaries to join them. As a result all of the missionaries either ate with Ron & Bonnie or met with them in their home-building relationships for times when missionaries will need them in the future. Ron & Bonnie then sent each missionary an email indicating availability through email, telephone, or skype.
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