Continuing on how Missions are essential to having a vibrant church:
4) Keep in contact with your Missionaries. Churches expect their missionaries to regularly send back a report – but I have found it extremely beneficial to send a quarterly letter to the missionaries about how things are going at the church. The Missionaries send us prayer requests from the field – I now send some prayer requests to the missionaries for their churches to pray for. It builds great rapport!
5) Encourage and promote contact from your congregation to the Missionaries. Our church has compiled an email list of all of our missionaries for the church families to pick up and be able to have personal contact with our missionary families.
6) Have a Missions Conference! Most churches do this on an annual or semi-annual basis, but this goes a long way towards building a missions heart within your congregation.
