Missionary

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Missionary Care
And Mission Triangle

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Every year, in every 20
missionaries, 1 left the mission field
i.e. 5.1 of the total missionaries sent
71 of the number of missionaries can
be avoided
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Most important reasons For preventing loss of
missionaries

• 1. A clear missionary call

• 2. A supportive family

• 3. A healthy spiritual life

• 4. Cultural adaptation

• 5. Good relationships

• 6. Pastoral care church support

• 7. Financial support

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Mission Triangle
Missionary
Mission Agency
Church
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Missions work

• A Must for the church Acts 13
• Church leaders gather to fast pray,
• Holy Spirit shows them the right way,
• Send their best leader and teacher

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Responsibilities of Mission Board
The Church

• make plans, direction, goal etc.
• recruit missionary
• missionary care
• fund raising for missionary missions work
• mission education activities

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The Church -
Help the congregation

• Develop a mission heart through Bible
  teachings, seminars, Sunday school, sermon,
  activities, mission teams

Train missionary
Recommend and send pastor or member to be
missionary
Give Pray for missions work
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support care for missionaries

• pray for missionaries their
• family members.
• birthday, festivals
• emails, phone calls.
• visit, once a year
• go to help when needed
• emergency death, sickness,
• special events pragnant, sick,
• emotional problem etc.

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Prepare Missionary Budget
Pre-field

• psychological tests,
• medical check,
• Cross culture training,
• Training on skills,
• Health accident insurance,
• Printing prayer cards
• Any mortgage ?
• Parental care?

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Prepare Missionary Budget
Getting off

• air tickets,
• setting up the house in the field with basic
  furniture and electric appliances,
• Children education , school
• Vehicle

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Missionary Budget

• Regular expenses
• living allowance,
• transportation,
• housing, furniture, utilities,
• medical, accident insurance,
• telephone,
• language,
• children education,
• training,
• parents subsidy,
• retirement fund

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Missionary Budget

• Ministries
• Church building ?
• Church planting expenses,
• Community development?
• purchasing land for ministry?
• hiring local people (pastors, secretary)

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Missionary Budget

• Home assignment
• air tickets,
• living allowance,
• medical check,
• psychological tests,
• printing materials,
• housing, transportation,
• ministries,
• children education
• Retirement

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Fund raising / handling money

• Missionary raise fund - ?
• Church raise fund - ?
• Method of sending money?
• Guide lines to receive money gifts and gifts.
• Tithe?

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Reasons for missionaries to raise fund?

• Pass on the vision,
• Challenge to extend the territory and mind set in
  investment of their time, money and talent,
• Learn to share vision,
• Give an opportunity to be partner in the
  gospel- prayer, giving

A blessing God will reward richly. (Book of
Philippians.)
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Mission Agency
A) Free Methodist Church
B) Asia Pacific Free Methodist Missions
Association (APFMMA)
C) ?????? OMF
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two missional institutes

• (1) Congregational
• A fixed place for worship, ministries, witness
  e.g. Churches.
• Every Christian is in this congregational
  structure worship, ministry, witness

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• (2) Agency with a vision
• Set up for a special ministry.
• Mission agencies, Bible schools, Christian
  hospitals, publishers

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Agency with a vision

• second commitment to the vision,
• Bible school teachers, Christian doctors and
  nurses good Christian caring and evangelism
  through their professions
• Mission agency for cross culture missions work
  in other countries

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What are Mission Agencies doing?

• Romans 1520
• To preach the gospel in places where people have
  not heard of the name of Jesus.

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• 2) Mission Office
• 3) For the missionaries
• 4) For the churches
• 5) For the mission fields

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Set up guide-lines for missionaries

• Fund raising
• Vacations sick leave, annual leave, special
  leave
• Marital status children, family
• Prayer letters, reports
• Insurance medical, accident
• Arrangement for home assignment

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• 7. Receiving guests, mission teams
• 8. Evacuation in case of political crisis
• 9. Moral life,
• 10. Physical health, mental
• emotional health
• 11. Training, on job training

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Set up policy for the mission field self
support

• Church planting poor countries how to help
  them to become three-self churches?
• Self propagating
• Self administrating
• Self supporting

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• How to build a church in their own culture?
  Contextualization? Can they support their
  pastors?
• Leadership trainingBible schools? Discipleship
  training?
• How to ordain pastors?

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1. Normal life / Gods calling /
2. Looking for the right Mission Agency -
waiting Expectation realized /
Confirmed by church / waiting for sending out
3. Commissioned / mixed emotions
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4. Honey moon period / Facing reality
5. Cultural shock / Depression
6. Devoted to serve with love / Ready to
return home
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7. Home assignment / Set date for return
8. New adjustment / Serve again
9. Total dedication
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Specialist Care for missionaries
A. Pastoral / spiritual
B. Physical / medical
C. Training / career
D. Team building / Interpersonal
E. Family / missionary kids
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F. Financial / logistical
G. Crisis / Contingency
H. Counseling / psychological
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5. Network Care

• Build up networks - in the field with
• other organizations, service.

? Resources provided
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Difficulties faced by Missionaries in the
mission field
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Most important reasons For preventing loss of
missionaries

• 1. A clear missionary call

• 2. A supportive family

• 3. A healthy spiritual life

• 4. Cultural adaptation

• 5. Good relationships

• 6. Pastoral care church support

• 7. Financial support

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Difficulties faced by Missionaries in the
mission field
1. Cultural Shock
2. Language
3. Children family life
4. Interpersonal relationship
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How to carry out missionary care?
1. Get to know more ? ? ?
2. Communicate ? ? ? ? ?
3. Pray regularly
4. Loving parcel
5. Visit ? ?
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Mission Triangle
Missionary
pray give sending
Training caring supervising coordinating
Report deputation teaching
Accomplishing the work partnering with Mission
Support train members
Mission Agency
Church
sending report teaching
training
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Missionary
Mission Triangle
Be faithful in the commission
a)
Be faithful to the church Mission
b)
Help the church to be a mission-minded church,
and a sending church
c)
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Church
Mission Triangle
Training
a)
send out missionaries
b)
support, care and pray
c)
receive report and prayer letters
d)
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Mission Agency
Mission Triangle
a)
Help the missionary to be successful
b)
Help the church to be a mission minded church
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• B.L.E.S.S.
• your missionary

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B.L.E.S.S. your missionary

• B Body
• -- Pray for physical health and nutrition,
• protection from injury, mosquitoes etc.
• -- Pray for physical safety traveling,
• no theft at home.
• L Labor
• -- Pray for effectiveness of their work
• -- Pray for wisdom in distributing,
• supervising, setting priorities.

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• E Emotions
• -- Pray for emotional health and
• welling-being of the missionary.
• S Spiritual life
• -- Pray for Gods protection from evil.
• -- Pray for a desire to listen and
• follow, and discernment.

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• S Social life
• -- Pray for families and extended families
• in field and home.
• -- Pray that God keeps couples in intimate
• communication and marriages together.
• -- Pray for social relations with local
• church leaders and Christians, local people.
• -- Pray for unity and harmony in the
• missionary team.

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Pray

• Our missionaries
• Our church
• Our mission agency
• Will keep up the spirit

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The End May God help us to be good
supporters in missions.
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Reasons for leaving mission field

• Order Reason
• 1 Retirement
• 2 Children education
• 3 Change field
• 4 Health
• 5 Lack of support fr church
• 6 Team, inter-personal
• 7 Personal reasons
• 8 Conflict with Agency
• 9 Lack of commitment
• 10 Lack of clear calling
• 11 Getting married
• 12 Spiritual life
• 13 Marriage problem

• Order Reason
• Cultural problems
• Conflicts w/ local leaders
• Aged parents
• Lack of training
• Lack of satisfaction
• Political situation
• Lack of supervision
• Died in the field
• Dismissed by Agency
• Improper moral life
• Lack of language skill
• Theology difference
• Other

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Missionary-responsibility to church
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? in the field
? Field
finance support, moral support, prayer
support, education of the children, the
ministry, the church leaders and members,
inter-person relationship, the country
political situation, first term, additional
terms, change in job / location /
organization
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? Field
? in home country
family member, parents, children in
school continual prayer support continual
financial support continual moral support
continual communication support
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? Re-entry
home assignment, medical leave, study leave,
returning to the field later in life
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? Post Field
end of service, retirement, pension.
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Sender Care
Care from sending groups ( church and agency)
for all mission personnel from recruitment
through retirement.
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? Pre Field

• recruitment, selection, interview,
• medical check,
• psychological test,
• training.

• logistics
• packing luggage, mailing luggage to the field,
• arrangement of kids education

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? Pre Field
- waiting period visa, fund raising,
- prayer group
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