Senders Videos
Over 40 videos with three-minute answers to questions about being a “SENDING” church. Topics cover finances, vision, recruiting, supporting and training people in your pews to become missionaries.
Finances
- How do we improve deputational efficiency?
- How should a church select missionaries that it should support?
- How to approach school debt
- What if most of your budget is going to retired missionaries or those in support ministries?
- When should a church stop supporting a missionary?
- Why does it cost so much to send a missionary?
- Why you should support fewer missionaries for more
Recruiting
- How to choose a mission agency
- How to help parents who do not want to release their kids and grandkids for the mission field
- What are some strategies for developing missionaries in your church?
- What is the role of single missionaries?
- What is the role of the church in “raising up” missionaries?
- What is the role of wives on the mission field?
- Why not send nationals rather than US citizens?
- Why the centrality of the local church in recruiting missionaries?
Support
- How can a church provide effective care for our missionary families?
- How can a missionary communicate well with supporters?
- How can a network of churches fuel missions?
- How could a supporting church best maintain a relationship with a missionary?
- How to maintain a mission intensity in a local church
- How to manage your missions program by policy rather than by crisis
- What are the roles, responsibilities, and accountability in mission relationships?
Training
- How can your church prepare women for missions?
- How do short-term trips fit the strategy of the church?
- How important is learning the language of the country?
- How to help parents value Bible college education
- How to intern potential missionaries
- What are some models or options for church-based training?
- What are the critical elements in a church-based leadership development program?
- What if the pastor does not see training missionaries as his job?
- Why ordination is more important than a Bible degree
- Why the centrality of the local church in training missionaries?
Vision
- Challenging a church and congregation to missionary service
- How can pastors become missionary-minded?
- How can retirees advance the mission outreach of the church?
- How can we nurture global-mindedness in our local churches?
- How to challenge a congregation to consider missionary service
- What is the difference between pioneering and partnering missions? Why does that matter?
- Why churches are not motivated to produce and send missionaries
- Why the pastor should be the chief missiologist of the church
- Why would you send your best members to the mission field?