4 Practical Ways to Support Missionaries

5 Practical Ways to Support Missionaries

1. Pray with us.
   During these stressful, uncertain days we need each other’s prayers more than ever. Set up a weekly time for a video chat to pray with your missionaries. Keep it to a small group and pray specifically for each other’s needs. Use the time to encourage each other with stories of how you have seen God at work around you and in you.
2. Be with us.
   For missionaries living far from home countries and families, feelings of isolation and loneliness are not uncommon. Now, we are not even able to go outside our homes to do the work we were called to do. We crave the fellowship of familiar, friendly faces—namely you, our stateside church family. You might not be able to travel to visit us anymore, but you can still “be here.” The internet is an amazing resource to help make this happen. Around the world people are getting together “virtually” to share conversations and activities in real time.
3. Share in our work.
   Thanks to the incredible support we receive from each of you, and the thousands of other supporting Southern Baptist churches, missionary families do not have the day-to-day financial stresses faced by most of our local ministry partners.
4. Keep giving faithfully.
   Recent job losses and economic turmoil are causing many people to fear for their financial security. But in Philippians we read God’s promise that He is able to meet all our needs and will use our circumstances to lead us to a deeper trust in Him. “Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need” (Phil 4:11-12).