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reports mailed to petitioner in 1992 indicate that petitioner
participated in the MBA plan.
The DFM has no official policy with respect to sick leave;
however, it does recommend that missionaries limit their vacation
days to 30 or fewer per year. Missionaries are not required to
report to the DFM either sick leave or vacation days taken.
Thus, the DFM does not maintain any records reflecting the days
and hours worked by its missionaries. Missionaries continue to
receive their personal allowance while on vacation and sick
leave.
d. Communication With the DFM
Apart from the monthly deputational and disbursement
reports, petitioner and the DFM communicated on an irregular
basis during his year of deputational ministry. The DFM did not
contact petitioner at all during that year, and petitioner called
the DFM only occasionally for information relating to shipping
his belongings to Bangladesh. Other than the quarterly field
reports and the monthly disbursement reports, there was no
regular form of communication between petitioner and the DFM
during his foreign field mission work.
The DFM requires missionaries to attend the "School of
Missions" during their deputation year of each 5-year cycle. The
School of Missions is not for training purposes; rather, it is a
"spiritual debriefing" for missionaries and their families that
have been exposed to foreign cultures for long periods of time.
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