How to Help Your Pastor in Missions

• Provide him with prayer resources.
• Pray for him regularly.
• Send him to the mission field.
• Arrange for missionaries to visit him.
• Pay his way to a conference or class such as ACMC, Urbana, Perspectives
• Enlist the pastor’s participation in the missions conference and committee.
• Provide helpful missions reading material such as:
     - clipped articles and illustrations
     - Eternity in Their Hearts   - Key to the Missionary Problem
     - Get Your Church Involved in Missions
     - Let the Nations Be Glad
• Handle the details of missions.
• Make sure your pastor is the "good guy."
• Be willing to suggest and implement your good ideas.
• Work with the pastor and board to define missions.
• Suggest new options for increasing missions giving.
• Encourage him to talk with other missions-minded pastors.
• Support and affirm his ideas for missions.

Tips...

• Don’t become a pest to be avoided.
• Demonstrate genuine interest and involvement in other church ministries.
• Be patient and go slowly.
• Don’t criticize.
• Seek and receive permission and endorsement of all missions activities.
• Ask the pastor to personally promote missions publicly.
• Do everything for missions in a quality manner.
• Don’t lose heart and try to work around the pastor.
• Affirm everything the pastor does for missions.

Source: "Equipping Your Pastor for Missions Leadership," an ACMC workshop by Woody Phillips

It’s more important to get on your pastor’s team than to get him on your team