Serving As Senders – A helpful book on caring for missionaries
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Serving As Senders: How to Care for Your Missionaries While They Are Preparing to Go, While They Are on the Field, When They Return Home
by Neal Pirolo
One book that our team regularly shares with pastors and missions leaders as we visit churches is Neal Pirolo’s Serving as Senders. The book is great not only because it tells us what we should be doing, it’s great because of the practicality with which it tells us how we should be doing these things. Pirolo, a missionary himself, brings a perspective that is valid as well as clear to a subject that many churches neglect. It isn’t as if we don’t care. If asked, most of us would exclaim that we do! But for whatever reason we often neglect doing much more than sending support checks.
This book will help churches with established missions ministries as well as those just starting out. The ideas will spawn creativity that will lead you to develop your own new ways of meaningfully ministering to those serving overseas. Even more, the book will help us realize and then remember that the Church is much bigger than our local congregation, and the call to “Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the world,” is not an or statement but an and statement.
If you’ve got some new ideas of how you or your church has cared for missionaries, why not share them here? I’d love for others to be able to read them, but also to take these ideas as I visit churches in the PCA.
George Verwer, Operation Mobilization
“I strongly believe that this is one of the most significant missionary books of this decade. Unless the Church and God’s people respond to its message, the work of reaching the unreached is going to be greatly hindered. Every committed sender needs to get involved in distributing this book.”
Dr. Ralph Winter, U.S. Center for World Mission
“This key book makes the strategic point that mobilizers–the senders–are as crucial to the cause of missions as frontline missionaries. It is a book just crammed with solid, exciting insights on the most hurting link in today’s mission movement.”
Click here to order Serving as Senders online from Amazon.com.
God is at work in the Baltic region and you are invited to see and experience Mission to the World’s ministry in this strategic area. Veteran missionaries Gary and Linda Johnson (Sweden) and Carl and Becky Chaplin (Latvia) will be in-country hosts and the MTW Church Resourcing Director Jack Beall will be leading the trip.
Thursday: Travel to Stockholm; tour and see new MTW ministry, meet with local pastors. Overnight in Stockholm.