The MIssions Conference Walk

I don't know how many missions conferences you have been to but it is a great place to watch people. As you might imagine, in the last seven years I have been to a few....dozen. Most school-related conferences require that their students spend at least some time walking among the various agency displays. It is actually quite humorous. The set up is usually maze-like and it seems that the "game" is for people to get through the maze without ever making eye contact with a single missionary recruiter. Most accomplish it too! Occasionally one will stumble and glance at a banner and then be sucked into a conversation with a missionary which will most likely result in the leaving of a name and e-mail and months of electronic badgering before the agency rep finally gives up. Sometimes agencies add to the "game" by putting candy or some other giveaway on the table. Then the challenge becomes to take the good stuff from the table without being noticed, accosted and railroaded into some cross-cultural experience. Really fun!