Considering Missions? |
Debt is the biggest financial hurdle you may encounter as you consider missions. But careful planning can help potential missionaries avoid new debt and pay off existing debt. It begins with creating a budget. Chart your monthly income and expenses. Use several months’ worth of numbers to get the most accurate picture. Don’t include income that you can’t be sure you’ll receive.
Explorer Track — a four-day program blended with SEND’s annual conference in July — is designed for those who want to get better acquainted with SEND as a mission and research our ministry opportunities. It can serve as an important step toward becoming a missionary.
A coach will help you navigate the conference. You can attend group sessions to help you in your research, plus meet with missionaries and leaders from the specific fields and ministries you’re interested in. You will get a feel for SEND’s personality and people and our heart for making disciples among unreached peoples. Your children can also participate in the children’s programs.
To attend, you must have filled out a Get Started form and be recommended to attend by a SEND missions coach or missionary. You must be actively researching long-term missions and have SEND on your short list of possible missions organizations.