Help your mission family know about you!

It is equally important that your mission family know about you as well. You should prepare a short resume about your family and relationships with friends to give to your mission family. Take some pictures, send an update, let your mission family know more about you.

Get to know your mission family's work.

Ask questions, and study your mission family’s area of work. Study the people group and the ministry they work in. Read their materials and try to become involved in their operations. Support your missionary with notes and letters of encouragment.

Help your mission family know about your work!

Include personal family notes when you write your mission family

Be specific

Be specific, ask for specific prayers so you can pray for them and maybe even answer them.

Send specific prayer requests t

to your mission family so they can be involved in your life. Your missionary family needs to know about you and about your life. Often, your missionary writes letters daily, reports frequently, and must submit to tight financial controls.

Please help your missionary by sharing as much about you and your family as you can. Include the small every day things because they make life more interesting for us all.

Get to know your mission family.

Encourage your missionary to talk about their daily tasks. There is much more to their work than preaching, teaching and leading people to the Lord. Most of the work of God happens during the times when your missionary friends deal with every day life, just as it is with you.

We love to hear from our mothers because they write letters about the rain, the dogs next door and the bills that are waiting to be paid. We become closer to our friends and families when we know more about them.

Be ware that knowing more about people can lead you to disagreements as well. Love covers a multitude of disagreements and misunderstandings as well.

I am reminded of the time we had communion in China. After communion, I drank the remainder of a cup of wine which was left. My wife, coming from a different culture, said you drunk again, just as a busy-body was walking through the mission. Shortly later, we heard stories of our drunkenness and debauchery from friends who had heard it from the busy-body who claimed my wife had confess my drinking to her. We laughed at the situation but were wondering how Satan would use this story to keep people from God.

Love, acceptance, and patience, will build a life long relationship which is beneficial to you and your mission family as well.