A Paltry Advertorial about a Silly Project Response scale to the task of missions is predicated on the strength of advocacy the missionary project enjoys. Regarding the matter of the advocacy index enjoyed from today’s church, de facto response to the plight of missions pleads for the verdict of a ‘Paltry Advertorial about a Silly Project’. It makes no difference, whether the advocacy is published or not; either is from the same leaning. A project earns its own value. Therefore if the pittance we advance in after-thought is what the missionary project earns with us, then we stamp it true that mission is silly or a nuisance in our marriage to the world system, where in mobbish drive to lay up treasures and monuments on earth, we mock the words of Christ. Why a Paltry Advertorial about a Silly Project Once, on invitation, I spoke at the mission week of a large church. When I thought I had made a case in favour of the missionaries who were meant to be the centre of discussion t...