Missionary Confidential

Question Week: Sent By a Mission Agency or By Your Home Church?

This week is Question Week.

Are you sent by a mission agency or by your home church?

I ask this purely out of curiosity.  We are sent by our home church, but in our mission field we find that most missionaries are sent by a mission agency.  What’s interesting to me is that when we were doing our research and trying to figure out how we’d get to Western Europe, we had an almost impossible time finding mission organisations that were willing to send anyone (not just us) to our field, claiming that the “lack of return” on the money needed to live in one of the most expensive countries in Europe was the issue.

Interested in Short-Term Missions? Some Good Thoughts

One of the more popular search terms that this blog receives is “short-term missions”. I recently stumbled across a very well-written article in the online publication Wrecked For The Ordinary that candidly addresses some of the reasons that issues arise during short-term missions, diplomatically terming it “missions mismatch”.  The article also offers three steps that one should review, including questions to honestly answer.

Selecting a Short-Term Missions Experience