Partnering with Local Churches to Train and Send Missionaries Worldwide
Our home church recently started a “Yokefellow Ministry”. The purpose of the ministry is to partner church members the missionaries who are sent out of the church to more fully meet the needs of the missionaries and to be active
The Prize Principle: God will reward willing people who do God’s work or who help someone else to do God’s work. When Ezra went back to rebuilt the temple, some went and some sent (Ezra 1:3-4). Some were stirred up
The Privilege Principle: God’s people are privileged either to do God’s work or to help someone else do God’s work. Being involved in the Lord’s work through supporting and sending others is a tremendous privilege. Ezra 1:5-6 Then rose up the
The People Principle: God uses people to be channels of His provision for His work. Ezra 1:3-4 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in
The Provision Principle: God will provide everything necessary to accomplish His work. He accepts ultimate responsibility for the support of His Work. Ezra 1:1-2 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by
Every year, many local churches put together a missions conference. Planning a missions conference can be very challenging, especially when coming up with ideas to make the conference fresh and exciting. Here are a few random ideas that I have
THE LOG By Perry Draper (Reprinted by permission from HIS, student magazine of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, C. 1963.) It was a large log, one of the largest I’d seen. Surely some fine lumber would come from this freshly-chopped monument. This
One huge reason to take a furlough is to be a blessing an encouragement to those churches and individuals who have supported the missionary. Reporting in to supporting churches is a very Biblical thing to do. Acts 14:26-28 says, “And thence
