HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR CHURCH FOR MISSIONS.
Simple Suggestions for creating awareness of MISSIONS in churches

“If you think you’re too small to be effective you have never been in bed with a mosquito”. - Betty Reese

1.      Prayer Resources
Use one or more prayer guidelines to help the congregation with informed and intelligent prayer guides and updates on how missionaries are coping as well as their current prayer needs and praise items.

2.      Mission Slots
Make space in your church services to allow either your own missionaries or other missionaries to come and share about their current work and ministry.

3.      Prayer
Emphasise prayer as a way of supporting mission and missionaries. Arrange a Prayer Lunch/breakfast every couple of months during which time members of the church can come and enjoy a meal together but then also spend some time praying for specific missionaries who are supported either financially or prayerfully by the church. If the missionaries know that there are people back at home who are serious about prayer for them, they will be encouraged. If you have a missionary who lives close by, invite them to come along to the lunch/breakfast to give some personal feedback.

4.      A Mission Day/Evening or Weekend
Organise a Missions Day/Evening or Weekend to focus the direction of the church toward missions. Invite a guest speaker who has missions experience. You could include a Saturday breakfast and/or dinner with a particular theme linked to a country or region. Focus the Sunday services on the inspiring and challenging the people in the church to get involved in either supporting missionaries or going on mission trips. Invite mission’s organisations to come and set up displays that portray the work that they do.

5.      Get involved in a local mission project.
Explore ways of reaching out to the needy and building bridges with people from other Christian Churches. Arrange short term mission trips for weekend or school holidays so that people can be exposed to actually ‘doing missions’.

6.      Building up link with your a missionaries A personal link with missionaries can often be the most effective way of educating people about mission. Hearing news about people who they know by sight is much better than a stranger in a far away place with whom they have little or no contact. Try something new and contact them by phone during one of the Sunday services and broadcast the interview through your sound system so that everyone in the church can hear their voices and news.

7.      Displays
Create a missions notice board in a prominent place in the church so that people can see that missions is high on the agenda of the church. Paste up letters and articles from missionaries with whom your church has a connection. Use pictures, posters, banners and photos. Keep it big and keep it changing.

8.      Technology
Communication by e-mail, websites, telephone (live in the church service), video interviews, missions promotional video material (Show video clip)

9.      Educate
Creating a talk or organising an event can be educational and inspiring. Educate your church in mission related issues. Encourage your church people to read good literature that is written by real live missionaries who share their experiences on the missions filed.  

10.  Guest Speakers
Invite speakers who will inspire and encourage people to gain a love for missions. Look for those who can bring across the heart of God and transform it into the hearts of people. Contact mission’s organisations and ask them who they would recommend as a good speaker.

11.  Giving
Start a definite Missions giving programme – a % of your church budget which is tithed to missions. Faith Promise programme – where peoples money is there heart will be as well! Teach people to be wise stewards so that they can give more to missions and less to their own luxuries and enjoyment!

12.  Reflect
Look for opportunities to reflect on missions in the church and identify some special events in which the church experience of mission can be celebrated. Remember some people can’t be active, but they support through prayer and giving encouragement.

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