I really appreciate your insight. This is all very new to me, but I have learned one thing. GOD is so much more in charge of things than my little mind can even comprehend, and I look forward to what He has next. I appreciate you sharing this information as we are fixing to send out our first newsletter, and begin talking in a few Churches.

God Bless, Josh Mink—-TN

I am Pastor.Darpen Masih came to the Lord 1995, I was drummer with a Hindu devotional singers troop.while in a programme I heard about Jesus and I left that troop and stopped playing for any such Hindu devotional programme.And when my community came to know about my faith in Jesus I was athrown out of my home and worked with differrent churches and organisations for last 15 years.I am married and have a daughter named Angel (3yrs )and my wife is a sikh convert.I am the only believer from my family and all my family members still hate me for my faith.I am Looking for some supportes who willingly support our cause to carry on our vision among North Indians. I am working among Punjabi Hindus. I have a vision to start a new ministry registered with Government rules. I am looking for someone to help me to carry it in and help me. I do want start a new church in the Non-christan People for worship of God,but I have no money. I want to rent a house.I have many believers,but no place for fellowship.Can you support me for 50$ dollar per monthh this work,Pls remember me yours prayer.I’ll continue prayer your ministry. Kindly keep this in mind and send us your reply as guided by the Holy spirit,Bible says (2corinthians-9:9)I’ll highly obliged,if you get this work done……
With much love and best wishes
Yours sincerely in Christ
Pastor Darpen Masih
MY E-MAIL: pastordarpen333@yahoo.com

Glory to God

. My name is Rev. Ramesh, doing village and church Ministry in a small rural village a part of , Tamil Nadu, South India. By the grace of God and His blessings, He is helping us to run and maintain the church and family.

Brother, I have started “Bible School”, the school name is “Emmanuel Bible School”. Please pray that God helps us to meet with the needs of the students and teachers teaching in the school.

A small prayer request - kindly pray that we shall have our own church building and many many lost souls to come under the Kingdom of God. So please include our prayer request with your daily prayers.

We too shall pray for you and your ministry. May God use you more richly in His Service and ministry. God Bless You.

Thank you once again for your prayers. With lots of prayers, wishes and love.

Pastor. Ramesh

Emmanuel Bible School of India
Kramesh1974@gmail.com
+91- 9345243560

A very warm welcome to you in the matchless name of Jesus. Brother myself john raju. Iam from India . Iam serving god . Iam in the ministry named Betania Miracle . we are doing village ministry. Brother to serve god is very diffcult without any finicial support. How much we can we are doing . Brother please come forward to make our ministry stand . And pray for us .i will wait for reply

Thankyou

Greetings from France! I stumbled upon your site through a search that had nothing to do with fundraising, but since I had already been through the process without finding much online help, I thought I’d give your site a look!

Something that struck in the above article was #3 on your list of things not to do when raising the support of a pastor and, eventually I presume, his church. While I certainly respect your pastoral experience with missionaries stopping by out of the blue to talk with you a few minutes (and while I completely agree with the other two things on this list), I have to disagree entirely with your intent to dissuade missionaries from doing #3. I have a few reasons for this:

#1 - I did this. Why? Because missionaries don’t have the guts to do this anymore, nor are they willing to do much more than write letters and change the addresses and greetings on them and send them out. The pastors I met and spoke with, in person and in several southwestern cities, were mostly astounded that I was willing to drive hours to a town just to meet pastors face to face.

#2 - They knew I was serious. They knew I was real and that getting to the mission field was heavy business for me. You can write the best letter in the world, packed with a full color portfolio and the works, and not convey that message one bit.

#3 - 99.99999% of the time, calling doesn’t do a lick of good. Secretaries do a lot of things, but they learn in about 24 hours on the job how say in the sweetest tone (and, if they’ve been at it awhile, a not so sweet tone), “I’m sorry, but the pastor is [in a meeting/studying/praying/on visitation/eating/not available] right now, can I direct you to his voice mail?” 99.99995% of the time, that voice mail isn’t going to get answered. But, 99.99995% of the time, a secretary is delighted to meet a friendly new face who hasn’t harassed her with the routine “3 attempts and let it rest” on the phone.

Brother Jim, I admit, I’m not a conventional guy. But, it seems the only church offices that had a problem with me stopping by were huge, overstaffed churches with 30 different ministries going at once, sometimes none of which had anything to do with real missions.

On the flip side, I know a pastor has to set his limits. He can only do so much and, if he’s diligent, he’s got a plan and a schedule for each day. That’s how it should be. But, if I was a pastor (and I’m not), I’d be “turned off” by the letters and portfolios from people who were not willing to stop by my office before I’d be turned off by the ones who were.

With sincere respect,
James

Thanking you.
Yours in Christ
Bro: B.Isarael,
Redeemer Gospel Ministries,
Plot No: 23, Kamalabai NagarColony,
Nagaram (Village & Post),
Keesara Mandal, R.R district,
Hyderabad-500 083,
India.

Now as missionaries on the field, we greatly appreciate our mission agency’s policy of screening all who want to come and “help”. We’re currently waiting on approval for a young lady from one of our supporting churches to come for several months and have been in contact with other young adults who would like to come next year. We see great value in providing opportunities for those serious about ministry (missions or otherwise) to come for visits or extended stays, but we also see the value of making sure they’re ready.

It is an investment of time and money on the part of both those who come AND the missionaries so it goes without saying that thought and prayer need to go into the planning, preparation and actual trip.