How Can I Get Involved?
Some of the ways to get involved are listed below:
- Prayer – The First Friday of each month meet at church to pray
for our adopted unreached people group. See weekly bulletin for room assignment and time.
- Adopt a Missionary – you personally or a Sunday school class can
develop a friendship with a missionary. Regular, intelligent heart-felt prayer is your
missionary’s number one need. Keep a personal file for that missionary, i.e. hobbies,
interests, anniversary, birthday, children’s information and likes.
- Pen pal Program – Start a pen pal or e-mail or five-minute
telephone relationship with the missionaries. Have your children or grandchildren write
their children. Birthday cards are very important to children. Mark your calendar to send
cards far enough in advance to get there on time.
- Loan and R&R Program – Loan your car, offer your
“get-away” cabin, cottage, trailer, or extra-room to missionaries on furlough.
- Christmas Courier Program – Relatives of missionaries send their
Christmas presents via a courier. Lay people love to travel. By going they catch the
vision.
- Emergency Program – Sign up to be contacted for emergency
prayer. Tell the missionaries that when they have a true financial emergency to put you on
a list to be contacted, and that you will write a check for $_______.
- Magazine Subscription Program – Send the missionaries a magazine
subscription every year.
- Couch Potato Ministry – Missionaries are real people and love to
keep up with home. Make video recordings of children’s programs and send videos to
them. Tape commercials, college football games for the grownups too, whatever they
request.
- Travel Assistance Program – Assign a helper to your missionary.
That helper would go for 2 weeks before they travel to or from the field, to help them
pack and look after the children during the trip, keeping an eye on them in the airports.
- Short Term Missions and Visits – Go on a “Pray Through the
Window” prayer journey to where your missionary is. Or even organize and travel on a
short term mission trip to their area.
- Christmas in September – Buy and send gifts to missionaries.
Break down the needs of your missionary into a Christmas list or catalogue which can be
distributed so people can make or buy gifts in the name of that church member.
- Garage Sale – sell things you do not want in order to pay for
things the missionaries need like travel money when going or coming.
- Vacation Assistance Program – Plan to vacation at a nearby
tourist area, taking some time to help your missionary.
- Etc.
Adapted from
Mobilizing Your Church for Frontier Missions Involvement
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