How Not to Drop Missionary Support
July 31, 2009 – 10:54 amDave Hosaflook, missionary to Albania, wrote an insightful post over at MissioMishmash about how church’s should and should not drop support for a missionary.
With 17 years of missionary experience, Dave gives us an inside look of various ways churches handle supporting (or not supporting) their overseas gospel partnerships.
He concludes that
Stopping missionary support is sometimes necessary and rarely easy. But it is always possible to handle it in a godly, ethical, caring way by the ex-supporter.
On the other hand, every good missionary should respond in a godly way to every trial, including those caused by cowardly, cruel, or incompetent ex-supporters. If resentment taints our hearts and discord is sown by our lips, how can we possibly be the fragrance of Jesus in our fields?
Read the entire article.
