ENCOURAGING MISSIONARIES

• Pray for missionaries and their families
• When a family is leaving to do mission work, offer them help in   determining items they need to take, then purchasing those items, and then help with sorting and packing their belongings.
• Ask missionary families to send you a “possibilities list”.  A list of items that you or others could possibly ship to them during their stay. Offer to be their liaison to keep the list current.
• Send care packages Including items from their “possibilities list”:
  • Food Items they can’t purchase where they are
  • Books you know they love
  • Newspapers from home (make sure the country will allow)
  • Pictures of current events
  • Homemade candy at holiday time

• Write letters (Use Postal Service– email is nice but handwritten is wonderful)
• Send them a subscription to their favorite magazine
• Send weekly emails
• Schedule a call with them – The anticipation of the call as well as the call can be an encouragement
• Share positive things you have heard about them/their mission work
• Encourage young people to be a pen pal to the children of missionaries 
• Schedule your vacation to visit them – A visit to a foreign mission work is life changing for you as well as a huge encouragement to the missionaries.

• Create a safe environment for them (Read the book: Safe People by Cloud & Townsend)

• Be one of their balcony people (Read the book: Balcony People by Joyce Landorf Heatherly)
  

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