Why We Still Send Missionaries (VIDEO)
In the past decade, we’ve seen tremendous expansion of the gospel around the world. With rising costs, and a Western sensitivity toward colonialism, many are asking if we would make better use of our resources by funding local believers to reach their own people. Should we still be sending missionaries?
The reality is that in the U.S., we live in a land still filled with light. In the U.S., there is one full-time Christian worker for every 270 people. In the rest of the world combined, it's one in 450,000. In the Muslim world, it's more than 1.7 million. There is a difference between someone who has never heard the gospel in the U.S. and someone who has never heard the gospel in Saudi Arabia. It becomes an issue of access.
There simply aren’t enough local believers to reach the unreached, and where there are pastors, many are stretched thin and lack training.
We must work together if we’re going to fulfill the Great Commission. Watch as MTW missionaries and national partners share their perspectives on why sending missionaries to serve internationally is still vital for the growth of the global Church.
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SEE MOREPray for national pastor Giotis Kantartzis and missionaries Philip and Kay Luther serving in Athens, Greece, as they work toward a vision of expansive church-planting in a region that is hungry for truth.
Pray for those who God is calling to missions, that God would clarify their call, and equip them to serve Him.
Pray for church-planting work to increase and bear much fruit in strategic cities around the world that are filling with diverse international populations.
Give thanks for the work God is doing in South Asia in the wake of COVID lockdown relief. Ask God to grow the new believers who came to faith in Christ as a result.
Pray that God would meet the needs of itinerating and long-serving missionaries, raising up their financial and prayer support.
Pray for the "Timothys" in Muslim-majority West Africa who are growing in their Christian faith and teaching others.
Join us in praying for our efforts to plant 36 churches in South Asia by 2030. Pray for the national pastors leading churches in Muslim-majority regions.
Pray for our single missionaries and the unique challenges they face.
Pray for an Italian couple returning to their home country to church plant.
Pray for missionaries who are struggling because their ministry feels unsuccessful. Pray they will see things from God's perspective.
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