"Repeated requests come into the Foreign Missions Office asking for additional information about our missionaries. Such requests are highly appreciated for they display the sincere interest the people in the home churches have in these ambassadors of our Lord. The information desired about the missionaries is more than casual. Not only their names are asked for, but their location, type of work, their children, their biography, and their pictures. The MISSIONARY ALBUM is designed to meet that request partially at least, and to encourage dissemination of information and interest about the missionaries and the entire foreign missions project."
~ A.E. Janzen (from the Introduction)