I found this wonderful website for missionaries, http://raiseyoursupport.com/
I have no idea who put this out, but some of the suggestions are just great for missionaries.
Missions
Musings and meditations about missions from a missionary.
Missionary Software Recommendations
Note: This page will be updated regularly with new recommendations.
I (David Cox) have been a missionary for about 28 years now, and if you count the years on deputation, around 30 years. In my lifetime, I have gone from nothing electronic to speak of to using powerful desktop computers now. When I was in my schooling years (1964-2002) computers hit the scene and are now common. My education (much after school was self-taught about computers, and I even taught myself Foxpro relational database, and programmed my own software) has spanned both no-computer, and computer. So let me start off by a couple of much needed points that people need to understand.
Q: Are national missionaries better than Americans going?
Q: Are national missionaries better than Americans going? Doesn’t it make more sense to for me to raise funds for national missionaries, rather than raise funds for me to go?
Tips for New Missionaries Support
Tips for New Missionaries Support focuses on raising missionary support, understanding what you are supposed to be doing.
The Art of Persuasion
The Art of Persuasion Universal principles of influence. The author gives 6 tips to get people to be persuaded by your request.
Missionary Problems: “I wish I had had more realistic expectations.”
This post is my own response to an article in “Askamissionary.com” “What do Missionaries wish they had known before they first went?”
“I wish I had had more realistic expectations.”
Missionary Problems: “I wish I knew how to deal with conflict.”
This post is my own response to an article in “Askamissionary.com” “What do Missionaries wish they had known before they first went?”
Mail a Letter
Missionary Helps
Many times in our day and age, a missionary needs to get some piece of information to people who are computer illiterate. That means sending a paper and ink letter. When the postal service in the country is just not up to par (I have had a letter from Mexico to the US take up to 6 months to get there, and many times they get lost in the mail), you need some other way of getting that letter out.
Missionary Record Journal Book
Missionary Record Journal Book is an article about how to keep odds and ends of information for missionaries in just a blank book.
What biblically is “a missionary”?
What biblically is “a missionary”
Resumen: This post explains what is a missionary “biblical speaking”. It examines the Bible to see how the concept is developed in the New Testament, and how it should be understood by us, and how we should obligate “missionaries” to be.