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Global Ministries partner churches and programs in the 70 countries where Global Ministries works submit requests for persons in mission on a regular basis to fill their special personnel needs – usually a position involving skills or talents that they cannot fill themselves at the present time.  There continues to be a large backlog of requests from partners for missionaries that cannot be fulfilled because of financial limitations.  Global Ministries is striving to meet more of these requests.  To this end, there are ways that congregations and regions/conferences can help.

The average fully-supported missionary appointment costs Global Ministries about $50,000 per year for expenses of salary, benefits, housing, children’s education, and travel.  Churches and/or judicatories (regions, conferences, areas, or associations) can either give generally to new missionary appointments, or if they make a multi-year commitment (usually a minimum of $5,000 per year), can be matched with a specific new missionary being appointed.  Donor churches and judicatories then have the opportunity for ongoing news and communication with their supported missionary over the time they are in the field and can host the missionary on a visit to their congregation or judicatory when the missionary returns to the U.S./Canada for home assignment.   

A second option is for a congregation or conference/region to provide missionary support funds for a missionary currently serving.  Some may choose to support a missionary with whom they already have a missionary relationship or a missionary assigned to their region or conference as a missionary partner.  Global Ministries does not field missionaries without knowing that the funds are there to pay for the entire term of three or four years, but some churches find a missionary relationship more meaningful if they have a financial "stake" in the person's ministry through special giving -- and that special giving to one missionary means that other funds are freed up to name new missionaries.

If you are interested in learning more about support a missionary, please contact the Global Ministries Resource Development Office at gifts@dom.disciples.org or 317-713-2555.