Care for the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of the missionaries that your church supports.
YOUR JOB:
The missionaries that your church supports have special physical needs. When they are home on furlough, they will need housing, transportation and opportunities to make contact with churches and individuals who will support their work.
Often items that they need will not be available in the country that they work in.
Missionary Care, also know as Missionary Advocacy, is a wonderful opportunity for people to have first hand contact with the missionary field.
One solid proposal is for those who care for their missionaries to e-mail once a week, call once a month, and visit once a year.
IDEAS:
Adopt-a-missionary is a program that helps individuals, home groups or Sunday school classes adopt a missionary. The leader of this program should convey that the adopting group has a high degree of responsibility to care for this missionary.
A Care Task Force is a group of individuals who have formed for the specific purpose of caring for the church’s missionaries.
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Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves confused and in a state of panic at coming “home.” While people anticipate that going overseas will require major changes in their lifestyles and thinking, few anticipate the difficulties they will face upon return.
Intended to aid the re-entry process, this encouraging, and insightful book deals with these important subjects:
* adapting to the passport culture * identifying areas of potential struggle * dealing with the emotional challenges * relocation—finding a new job, a...
This volume continues the EMS Series with selected presentations from the November 2000 annual meeting. Caring for the Harvest Force in the New Millennium presents the theological foundations, challenges, and contexts for caring for those in full-time Christian service.
This book explores how member care is being practiced around the world in order to equip sending organizations as they intentionally support their mission/aid personnel. The information provided includes personal accounts, guidelines, case studies, worksheets and practical advice from all over the globe. "This book delivers what it promises! Here are 50 chapters from the widest selection of writers in the member care field to date... [that] take member care beyond its usual boundaries." -- Brent...
Essential reading for anybody involved in missions!
Many, after having responded to God's call to missionary service have struggled unsuccessfully to raise and maintain support.
Friend Raising brings together God's plan for missions support with principles proven in the field. The book focuses on lasting support raising: intimacy in relationships, bearing one another's burdens, generosity, and communication. In a world swamped by fundraising hype, Betty Barnett presents a refreshing biblical alternative based on relationship.
How many missionaries return from the field because of inadequate funding? How many called and enthusiastic potential missionaries never make it to the field because of fear of having to raise support? How many Christian leaders abandon ministry plans because of fundraising frustration?
This book addresses the obstacles for those who raise personal support and those who send them. Whether you're an experienced fund-raiser or just starting out, Funding Your Ministry will help answer your questions and put you on the biblical path for recruiting...
Developing realistic expectations of a missionary and his ministry is a key way to start supporting him. WorldVenture believes that ongoing personal development of its missionaries is essential to the task of effective cross-cultural ministry. This framework of ongoing personal development and care is shaped by the multifaceted needs of missionaries - needs such as financial, prayer, pastoral, spiritual, physical, continual training/education, team building, family encouragement, children's education. For cross-cultural workers, receiving "member care" is essential not only from the mission but also from those who partner with the workers in ministry. Development and...
One of the pressing issues facing the missions community today is the care of its people. Evangelizing the unreached is not without its costs. Missionaries thus need and deserve the best care possible to keep them resilient and effective. This handbook for supporting and developing missionary personnel is a collaborative effort of over twenty authors that address some of the cutting-edge issues of missionary care.
Missions and Money is an audio Bible study by the founder of LearnCareGo.org, Nate Davis. Missions and Money is a recap of the most significant verses on giving in the Bible - from beginning to end. Enjoy this message right now for free by clicking on Missions and Money - FREE - GET IT NOW. (74 min)
Essential teaching for every short- and long-term outreach participant & every church and mission agency that sends them.
Peter Jordan's vital, insightful teaching on the challenges and opportunities that await returning missionaries makes this essential reading for everyone involved in missions. A missions "must-read"!
This key book makes the strategic point that the senders are as crucial to the cause of missions as the front-line missionaries. It is a book crammed with solid, exciting insights on a very important aspect in today's mission movement.
THE REENTRY TEAM: Caring For Your Returning Missionaries, in Part I, first establishes the joint responsibility for missionary care between the church and the mission agency. Chapter 2 lays a clear five-point Scriptural pattern for successful reentry. That is quickly followed with discussion of the "human dilemma" which makes it so difficult to follow that pattern. Part II is comprised of 70--good and not-so-good--stories written by returning missionaries. Commentary follows each story to help the reader first identify with the situation, then second, translate the solutions into help for his...
We must rethink the interplay of dollars dependency and what it means to 'do the right thing' with our money as we pursue twenty-first century missions. This book answers the questions whether Westerners ought "To Give or Not to Give?" in support of global evangelism and encourages maximun generousity as the path most reflective of God's heart on the matter.
Exploring the Causes and Cures of Missionary Attrition
Does God really care about His servants? Yes! Do we care for our people who are serving the Lord in cross-cultural ministry? The Reducing Missionary Attrition Project (ReMAP), launched by World Evangelical Fellowship Missions Commission, seeks to answer that question in this important study. This book utilizes the findings of a 14-nation study done by ReMAP and will help supply some very encouraging answers.
Today the Uyghurs are one of the largest "minority nationalities" in the People's Republic of China. Uyghurs also live in the former Soviet republics bordering China. "Uyghur" means "united" or "allied," because the nation is a union of historic clans and tribes, yet they are not united politically. There is great tension in the region. This booklet captures the essence of being Uyghur, and the influence of Islam in their lives. 32 pages.
This book examines the keys to missionary retention. How can we ensure that missionaries are enabled to serve for as long as God calls them to serve and to serve effectively? Fifty-eight case studies and twenty-nine issue-based chapters form the core of the book, including recruitment, call, leadership, finance, ministry, and education/training.
Worth Keeping is the product of years of work by the Mission Commission task force called ReMAP II, charged with the job of carrying out the attrition follow-up research of Too Valuable to Lose: Examining the Causes and Cures of Missionary...
Essentials for Writing, Producing and Sending Newsletters that Motivate Readers “This book is a ‘must read’ for all missionaries who want to communicate effectively with their prayer and donor support teams. It is packed with practical ideas and examples.” - Bob Reehm, Veteran Navigator Staff and Author.
“Sandy brings a fresh and visual approach to help mission workers improve how they communicate on paper. Easy step-by-step processes, quality examples, helpful checklists, and fun anecdotes make this book necessary for any...
The Faith Promise Way to a Dynamic International Outreach
Your Church Can Excel in Global Giving is a must read for any church serious about leveraging their resources for advancing God's global purposes to make His name known among the nations. Don's refreshing approach, vivid illustrations and pastoral style take this subject to a new crucial level. Read it and your church will never be the same in its mission giving. - Greg Parsons
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