Missionary Activity?

[Jenny A]

Greetings all! It is an honor and a privilege to have me, a Christian   be allowed to be in some sort of fellowship with people who reject God.

Really.  You are probably friends with a number of closet atheists.  So often religion just doesn't come up. And it's not so much rejecting god, as failing to see any evidence for such a thing. I don't reject unicorns, I simply don't see any evidence of them.

Anyway, back to my main point. What are atheists view of Missionary activity?

What would your opinion of a delegation sent to a foreign country to convince them that leprechauns exist and should be worshiped?  If you stuck to that, that would be my opinion.  But you don't just stick to that.  You want them to believe that the leprechauns don't want them to use birth control or protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases, or worse that their economic lot in life is the leprechauns' will.

By that I mean Christians of faith braving hardships just to express love and fellowship with the less fortunate of the world.

Oh, you mean like Doctors' Without Borders, or the Peace Core? ---- oh yeah, you don't.  You mean explaining to the heathen that they are sinful.  Really, there are people who need real help and prayer and fellowship let alone messing with thier social norms ain't help.

Of all the missionary expereinces I have heard about that my pastor told me, it is such a positive experinece. The Ugandands he ministers to are so grateful to him and the trinkets of western bounty he gives them freely (Starburts, pens, sticky notes, etc.)

Its hard not to think missionaries spread such joy and love to the darkest corners of the world they frequent.

Starbucks pens?  Okay joker, who are you really?????  Even a missionary wouldn't consider sticky notes western bounty.  

Yet in spite of these good deeds atheists seem not to like missionaries only because they have Jesus in their lives.

Yep, I don't like people who spread harmful mistruthes no matter how well intended they may be.

Do atheists do mission work? Would one brave the darkest jungles and deserts to help anyone?

Getting back to Doctor's Without Borders. . .

Some help please.

Stop giving the natives sticky notes. Give them condoms, antibiotics, and jobs instead. That's my advice.