How to Get Started in Sending One of Your Own

• Lead the church family to begin praying that the Lord of the Harvest will send out laborers that will include “one of their own”. (Mat. 9:36-38)

• Teach the privilege of going from the pulpit and small group studies.

• Help parents to be consistent with their convictions on missions when it comes to the sending of their children and grandchildren.

• Challenge those in mid-life to evaluate their eternal investments.  Could the church ‘draft’ some who have demonstrated elder qualifications to do ministry beyond the local church?  Others may need encouragement to make adjustments in their current investment strategies to support missions in the sending of “one of their own”.

• Educate your children and youth concerning missions.

• Identify and ‘groom’ promising youth and young couples for missions (have a “hit list”).
  Trust God to direct your youth and young families into missions while doing the above (don’t pressure them).

 Jim Teasdale, TMM board member and missionary to Kenya, emphasized the importance of challenging our own to answer the call to career missions in the closing scene of The Master’s Mission’s video, So Send I You. He said: 

“Mission ministry is one of the greatest things in which you can be involved in your life.  People say, ‘Well, as a missionary you sacrifice so many things.’  And we have our war stories that we tell when we are on furlough, in the churches.  And yet we have to realize that we are having the time of our life.   In our American churches – in our churches from societies that have a Judeo-Christian tradition – we are doing our young people a disservice when we don’t challenge them to serve the Lord full time.  We all need to have that zeal for Christ at home – that commitment to share his Word, that commitment to share Christ with those that don’t know Him.  But at the same time we do need from our local church bodies those who will go out and take the gospel to the ends of the earth.  We need to also encourage our young people – help them understand that this is a life that is challenging, that is rewarding, that is exciting, and that has eternal consequences.”

 To obtain your free copy of  So Send I You, call 1 (800) 419-8618 or email David Blackney.