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Mission Minded

 by Andrew Cook

Chairman Heartland International

Did you know that every missionary has three basic needs:

Spiritual    Emotional     Financial

Spiritual needs

They need to know that their family, friends and those who have sent them out have them covered in prayer.

Emotional needs

They need to know that they have not been forgotten while living in a foreign land. Proverbs 25:25 As cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a far country.

Financial needs

They need your financial support. Oh, to see a new breed of missionaries rise up who are not bound by the mind sets or financial restraints that previous generations have been forced to work under.

12 Tips for Missions

  1. Reading missionary biographies will inspire faith and build passion for the mission field
  2. Be a tither to a local church.
  3. Be in the habit of giving to missionaries long before you become a missionary.
  4. Travel light - you never need as much as you pack.
  5. Prayer covering - don't leave home without it.
  6. Take individually wrapped toilet paper. Remove the center roll and use from the middle first, ensuring it always remains clean and dry in a plastic bag.
  7. Be flexible. The mission field is subject to change without notice at any given time.
  8. Don't go home in your head.
  9. Wherever you go, find the vision of the local pastor and serve it. Refresh him because he will still be there long after you have gone home.
  10. Keep the "shield of faith" up for the entire trip and for two or three weeks after you get home. By this you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
  11. It is true that great victories follow great preparations, but the anointing is in the going.
  12. Catherine Booth 1890 : "Praise up humanitarianism as much as you like, but do not confound it with Christianity, nor surppose  that it will ultimately lead its followers to Christ"                                                                                        Andrew Cook : "Feed the hungry, clote the naked but never allow yourself to get sidetracked from the Gospel of Jesus Christ".

 

 

Four tools no other generation has ever had

This is the first generation that can live locally and act globally . There is even the new terminology non-residential missionary. The ability to live in one country and have a large influence in another. We can do this because we have the following:

 

Transport

Air travel is cheaper and safer then it has ever been. We can now be almost anywhere in the world within 24 hours.

Communication

The advances in communications in the last 10 years now allows us to have instant communications through phone, internet and fax. Take the time to read a few mission biographies on John G. Lake or Hudson Taylor and you will realise the great age in which we live.

Personnel

There are more Christians alive on the face of Planet Earth today then all previous generations combined. If each of us prayed for the harvest for just 10 minutes a day and gave $1 a week we would make a huge global impact.

Finances

The western world are the richest people who have ever lived. We are 5% of the world's population with 55% of the world's resources. Be good stewards.

 

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