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Deliverable #2: Services

Posted by Bob Fetherlin , 08 April 2008 · 710 views

A local church trying to do cross-cultural mission overseas on its own would need to figure out how to answer these questions:

1) How much money each month does our missionary need, and how do we get that money from here to our missionary?

2) What do we do about health insurance and health care when this missionary is serving outside the United States?

3) What about some kind of a retirement program enabling our missionary to prepare well for the later years of life?

4) We want our missionary's children to have a quality educational opportunity preparing them for an eventual transition to life / college back in the United States. How can we best work this out?

5) What's the best way to obtain visas for the country in which our missionary will serve?

6) If our missionary gets into trouble or needs specific, focused help while on the field, to whom do we turn? What do we do?

7) How do we handle all our missionary's finances in a way that meets with the approval of the government of the country of service as well as the Internal Revenue Service?

8) If our missionary wants to ship some needed household items and supplies to the field, what's the best way to do this? And if the shipment has to go through customs, how does that work?

These and a myriad of other questions emerge in missionary sending. Over many years, the C&MA has discerned best practices in responding, providing high level, quality services for missionaries and international workers around the world. Highly trained, deeply committed people . . . very committed to Christ and his mission . . . serve within the C&MA's infrastructure to provide these and many other much needed, greatly appreciated services! Without them and the services they make available, missionary sending can be very complicated indeed!

I'll talk about another deliverable in my next posting.




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