BMW HOME OFFICE IN ALTANTA, GA

As a para-church organization, BMW's only purpose for existence is to be a facilitator of the vision of local churches for international ministries. BMW facilitates this vision by providing a number of services from its international office for missionaries and their sending and supporting churches.

1. ADMINISTRATION: We care for a myriad of administrative details which are needed to keep a missionary on the field. Some of these services include crisis management, visa procurement, travel arrangements, hospitality, displays, literature, prayer letters and prayer cards, representation, recruiting, receipting, payroll, banking, tax services, retirement, medical insurance, correspondence, etc. We focus on these details so that your missionary can focus on the task of starting churches.

2. TRAINING: We prepare your missionary for deputation, cultural adaptation, language learning and on-going training on the field. BMW operates an email forum, called “ThinkSpots,” to facilitate the discussion of issues related to missions. “InkSpots” is another forum to share book reviews. Each year we conduct a conference on every field to provide training, planning, fellowship and spiritual rejuvenation for missionaries. One-on-one mentoring is available in many instances for new missionaries on the field.

3. TEAMWORK: BMW leadership assists missionaries in setting goals and strategies. Because we work as teams, there are others to provide mutual accountability and encouragement for your missionary. Field Leaders and Administrators assist in evaluation of missionaries on the field. Quarterly and annual evaluations are done to help make sure we stay on track with our goals. While you cannot visit your missionary every week, the mission family on that field provides the infrastructure for these good things to take place. It would be a challenge for most local churches to launch a team to every field. The mission board helps you do that.

Churches could provide all these services. It would mean that each church would need to employ a full-time missions pastor to adequately do all this. Or a church could choose to "outsource" some of these services to a mission agency.

About 25 people work in BMW's international office: the General Director, the Area Directors, and secretarial, financial and maintenance staff. In addition to paid staff, several retired folks relocate to Lawrenceville and "finish well" by giving their time and energy to meet various needs such as transportation, cleaning and maintenance, meal preparation, etc. Each of BMW's office personnel are involved in area churches and ministries.

If you would be interested in serving at BMW's international office, feel free to contact Steve Rygh.

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