Connect with Missionaries

One catalyst for transforming ordinary churchgoers into mobilized on-mission Christians is a personal connection with a missionary. The closer people get to hands-on missions, the more they become active in prayer, personal involvement, and financial support.

Here are just a few ideas:

• Be a Missionary Encourager. Your church can adopt a missionary family, providing prayer support, notes of encouragement, care packages, partnership opportunities, speaking invitations and just about any other type of connection you can imagine.
• Write. You can look up missionaries and chaplains from any state at www.namb.net/missionaries and find contact information. Individuals can look up missionaries with their birthday — an instant point of connection,
• Pray.Our PrayerConnect page offers a daily request from a missionary related resources. After you've prayed, let the missionaries know you're in their corner.
• Go. Visit The Bridge to find missionaries who need volunteer mission teams for specific projects and see lasting relationships form as a result.
• Attend a Missionary Commissioning Celebration. This may be difficult unless the service is in your area, but when one is nearby this is a great way to hear testimonies and meet missionaries soon after they've begun their ministry,