We are taking our four little children, and I never need anyone to remind me that they need their breakfast... dinner... supper. And I cannot imagine that our heavenly Father is less able or less willing to remember His children's needs, when He sends them forth to the end of the earth about His business.

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Four: Survivors' Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 156).