Student loans often present a hurdle for people headed to the mission field. Pay them off as quickly as you can! TRANSCRIPT: How do you handle student loans? How did you handle student loans? For me it was school loans that I had to pay off before I was able to really pursue this calling to serve God overseas. School loans are a very challenging dimension of our post-college lives. We often graduate with many thousands of dollars of debt in school loans, and many times we may not have the best paying jobs when we get out of college, so it takes a while to pay these loans off. More >