In Friday’s RNS report Charles Honey looks at domestic missionaries working to save dying churches: Half a world away from the country where he served for more than a year as a chaplain with the Army National Guard, the Rev. Tim Mattison sits in a sparsely furnished office at First Baptist Church. His life here as interim pastor to a struggling congregation would seem to have little relation to the grim realities of Afghanistan. But Mattison believes he was called by God both to console grieving soldiers in the desert and to quietly support the few dozen members of First Baptist. As a missionary for West Michigan-based Continental Baptist Missions, Mattison is part of an army of ministers sent forth to start and save churches across America. Mattison says he doesn’t doubt for a second that God called him to this tiny church without so much as a paid secretary.