How To Care For Missionaries

1. Pray

“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.” - A. B. Simpson
  • The back of each missionary prayer card has a list of specific prayer requests pertaining to their families and ministries. 
  • Information can also be found in missionary’s blogs and newsletters.
  • Refer to the Missions Prayer Guide on the back of this page for specific ways to pray. 
  • Pray together as a life group for your missionary’s needs. 
  • Encourage group members to take missionary cards home to pray with their families. Keep them in them in your Bibles, on your fridge, etc.

2. Encourage

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”
​- 1 Thessalonians 5:11
  • Your missionary would love to hear from you! 
  • Contact information for your missionary can be found on the prayer cards. 
  • Send emails to your missionary as a life group and as individual families.
  • Get to know your missionary and send encouraging letters.

3. Support

​“Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
​- Galatians 6:2​
  • Pray about supporting your missionary financially, either as a group or as individuals. 
  • Send your missionary a care package (First contact your missionary to see if it is possible in their country and if digression is needed). 
  • Find out your missionary’s needs and do a fundraiser. 
  • Pray about visiting your missionary on a short term trip.
  • Pray about hosting your missionary when they are here on furlough.​​

Missions Prayer Guide

Prayer for Needs
“And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
​- Philippians 4:19

Prayer for Faithfulness
“The LORD'S loving kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” 
- Lamentations 3:22-23

Prayer when Worried
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7

Prayer for Open Doors
“Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains, that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak"
- Colossians 4:2-4 

Prayer for Boldness in Witness 
“and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.”
- Ephesians 6:19-20

Prayer for God’s Guidance
“For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;  that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and long-suffering with joy.”
- Colossians 1:9-11

Prayer for Strength 
“But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
- Isaiah 40:31