QUOTE : Nate had always regarded himself as “expendable” for the cause of Christ. In a short sermon delivered over the missionary radio station HCJB—The Voice of the Andes in Quito—he shared his belief with others: “During the last war we were taught to recognize that, in order to obtain our objective, we had to be willing to be expendable. . . . This very afternoon thousands of soldiers are known by their serial numbers as men who are expendable. . . . We know there is only one answer to our country’s demand that we share in the price of freedom. Yet, when the Lord Jesus asks us to pay the price for world evangelization, we often answer without a word. We cannot go. We say it costs too much. “God Himself laid down the law when He built the universe. He knew when He made it what the price was going to be. God didn’t hold back His only Son, but gave Him up to pay the price for our failure and sin. “Missionaries constantly face expendability. Jesus said, ‘There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the Gospel’s but shall receive a hundred fold now in this time and in the world to come eternal life.