Keep in mind the challenge of meeting up together across different time zones. Your morning may be our evening, so please be willing to be flexible so we and all our family members can join in.
3. Share in our work.
Thanks to the incredible support we receive from each of you, and the thousands of other supporting Southern Baptist churches, missionary families do not have the day-to-day financial stresses faced by most of our local ministry partners.
However, many of the projects we share with national partners rely on special gifts to keep operating. Many are run by local pastors who have fulltime weekday jobs that support their unpaid church ministry. Like other families around the world, they are now faced with a devastating loss of their livelihood and income.
Would you consider making a special gift to support one of these projects around the world? If you were planning a mission trip that has now been canceled due to travel restrictions, would you be willing to use those funds to support one of the overseas projects?
4. Keep giving faithfully.
Recent job losses and economic turmoil are causing many people to fear for their financial security. But in Philippians we read God’s promise that He is able to meet all our needs and will use our circumstances to lead us to a deeper trust in Him. “Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need” (Phil 4:11-12).
For 175 years—through famine, war, global pandemics and civil unrest—Southern Baptist missionaries have maintained an uninterrupted witness among the nations. This could not have happened apart from the grace of God and the prayers and sacrificial financial support of His people. Can we allow this work to stop or slow down now?
Currently the need is even greater to support missionaries who are challenged to meet unforeseen costs to stay safe and healthy. Needs include: medical supplies; emergency transportation to distant medical facilities; temporary accommodation in safe locations; additional telecommunications costs during lockdown periods; purchasing costly food items when local markets are no longer operating; and practical assistance for neighbors and fellow believers.
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