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issionaries are a part of the Grace Church fellowship scattered all over the world. They need and desire close fellowship with us in the United States. Modern technology makes this easier than ever. Here are some ideas to help you encourage Grace Church missionaries and other missionaries you know.
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Pray and Learn | Pray and Do | Read Some Books
Pray and Learn
- Pray your way through a list of our missionaries and mission organizations.
- Check at church or the missionary web pages for recent correspondence. Read this carefully and be sure to note any prayer requests.
- Keep a record of prayer requests (jot them in a journal) and update it when a request is answered.
- Locate their country, city, or place of service on a map of your own.
- Plan a dinner that features food from that nation or region.
- Research the culture of the people a missionary serves through other web sites, encyclopedias, library books, or missions books such as You Can Change the World by Jill Johnson. Discuss ways in which their culture differs from ours, but God's love is the same.
- Ask the church librarian or search on the web for books about other missionaries who have worked in that nation.
- Scan the newspaper or search the web for news articles that mention that country and think about the impact those events may have on the people of that nation and the missionaries who live there.
- Think about the many things you have learned and see if there is a Bible verse that relates to that particular missionary. Read that verse at your devotions and try to memorize it.
- When you finish your time focusing on that family or group, send them an email (or a card or letter) telling them that you have been praying for them.
- Hang a copy of the missionary's picture on your refrigerator, bulletin board, or world map.
- Start a small photo album of pictures of missionaries for whom you are praying.
- Become a pen pal with a missionary's child close to you in age. Send photos of you and your family, letters, and homemade greeting cards for their birthday and holidays. Become prayer partners.
- Send a birthday card to the missionary whose birthday is closest to yours.
Pray and Do
- Join a Habitat for Humanity work crew building homes in Paterson.
- Go with a group to help sort clothes at Star of Hope Ministries or serve meals at a food kitchen, such as Eva's Kitchen in Paterson.
- Join a short-term missions project sponsored by OM, Touch The World Ministries, or Grace Church.
- Collect baby items or throw a baby shower for residents of the Florence Christian Home, a home for unwed pregnant girls, in Wayne.
- Offer to help with Christian Overcomers, a ministry to the physically disabled. Volunteer to help with their summer camp ministry.
- Participate in a 30 Hour Famine sponsored by World Vision to raise money for hunger relief.
- Plan to be at the InterVarsity triennial missions convention at the University of Illinois at Urbana.
- Check the website of a particular mission which serves an area that interests you. See if they offer short term opportunities, or look for stateside volunteers. You can see a list of agencies on the Global page.
Read Some Books
Pray and Learn | Pray and Do | Read Some Books
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