Tag Archives: supporting church

Yokefellow Ministry - Holding the Ropes for Your Missionaries

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 fellow workers with them in the truth. WHAT IS A YOKEFELLOW? The name “yokefellow” comes […]

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The Prize Principle for Missions Senders (4 of 4)

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 to go up and build the house.  Some were not stirred up to go, but […]

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The Privilege Principle for Missions Senders (3 of 4)

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 chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with […]

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The People Principle for Missions Senders (2 of 4)

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 Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) […]

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The Provision Principle for Missions Senders (1 of 4)

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 the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus […]

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Missions 101: Part 2 - Raising Support

Missions 101: Part 2 - How does a missionary raise support and get to the field that he believes God has directed him to? First, we need to understand that where God guides, He provides. God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s support.  When God told Noah to build an ark, he […]

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Benefits of Furlough (5 of 6) For the Missionary’s Supporters

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 sailed to Antioch, from whence they (Paul and Barnabas) had been recommended to the grace […]

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