How Can You Get Involved?
God wants us to support his cross-cultural work, including ministry
to the nations overseas. By giving us a heart for missions, God is
enabling us to support his work, both financially and prayerfully.
Unless we have a heart for missions, we will not be able to support
fully his work in the earth. Unless God changes us, we will spend all
we have on ourselves. How can you get involved in seeing that people
from every people group gather eternally around the throne of God
(Revelation 5:9-10)?
All of Us are Commanded to Pray, Give and Go
 | Pray (Ephesians
6:18) |
| Give (Romans 10:12-15, "How shall they go unless they
are sent?") |
| Go (Matthew 28:18-20) |
The scope of our involvement will vary for each of us, but each one
of us are to intercede for God's purposes, give to send others to
preach the gospel, and go wherever and whenever God sends us.
God Wants Us Involved
The following list is not exhaustive, but is
intended to paint a broad picture of how God desires to raise up all
manner of support for his purposes in the earth:
| God is raising up intercessors to pray and lift up the hands of
those on the front lines, like Aaron and Hur held up Moses' arms
(Exodus 17:11-12). |
| God is raising up entrepreneurs and business
people to create and invest wealth for missions and the body of Christ
in the nations. These people also open doors into neighborhoods,
cities, and countries through the auspices of a business or economic entrée. (See Lydia,
Acts 16:14). |
| God is raising up ambassadors who
are willing to go as career missionaries to represent their Great King
by living and serving in another land (2 Corinthians
5:18). To
sacrifice personal comfort and convenience to obey, honor, and love
their King who sends them is the heart of these ambassadors. |
| God is
raising up servants to assist those on the field (Romans
10:15). Those
who stay home and help are just as important as those who go (1 Samuel
30:23-24). |
| God is raising up investors who will support career
missionaries faithfully (Matthew 6:19-21; Luke 8:1-3; Romans
10:14-15). We are all investors. It is just some of us are laying up
treasures in heaven while others of us watch our earthly investments
rot away. They fade to nothing. |
| God is raising up envoys who will
travel on short-term trips to the front lines to impart to others what
they have received, to strengthen the brothers as Paul did on his
missionary trips, and to equip the local body. (See also Titus in 2
Corinthians 8:22-24.). |
| God is raising up tentmakers who will use
their jobs to further the gospel rather than their own careers,
especially in nations where access for the gospel is limited. |
If you would like more information on how you can get involved in
touching the nations, please contact our Missions
Coordinator.
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