MONGOLIA
Best Job in the World
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Editor’s note: The Seventh-day Adventist Church is young in post-communist Mongolia, with a married couple from Adventist Frontier Missions only entering the country of three million people in 1991. The church’s current membership of 2,000 people also is young, and most members are the first in their families to be baptized. This has led to several challenges, including member retention, as illustrated by the story of a 28-year-old Global Mission pioneer in Mongolia’s capital city. Enkhmandakh Bold was baptized as a teen but left the church seven years later. This is his story.
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was a very hard man and judged people. If someone made a mistake, I always let him know what he had done wrong. I wanted him to be punished. I thought that God likes to punish us. I grew unhappy and eventually decided that believing in God was pointless. Something was broken in my life. I stopped going to church. I stopped keeping the Sabbath. My wife was sad, and she prayed for me. In the back of my mind, I lived in dread of punishment from God.
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I thought that God had blessed me for seven years and now was going to punish me for turning my back on Him. A year passed, and nothing happened. Instead of punishing me, God loved me and blessed me more than before. I got a well-paying job as an editor with a Mongolian television channel. This shocked me. My thoughts returned to God, and I wondered, What is the point of life if all I do is earn money and spend it? The only person who’s benefiting is the
television channel’s owner, who is getting richer. What’s the best job that I could have? After much thought, I concluded that the best job would be a missionary. I rededicated my heart to Jesus, returned to church, and prayed, “If You want me to be a missionary, I’m ready to go.” After several months, the leaders of the Adventist Church in Mongolia offered me the position of a Global Mission pioneer. I would take over a dying house-church on the first
