Church Connections
Sending Church/ABWE Partnership
ABWE’s role is to assist local churches in a partnership relationship.
- The sending church expects ABWE to:
- Faithfully and knowledgeably pray for their missionary.
- Assist the missionary throughout the pre-field process.
- Consult with them and their missionary before making any major ministry change.
- Provide an annual review of their missionaries fulfillment of responsibilities.
- Provide training for their missionary prior to field departure in preparation for future ministry.
- Provide periodic communiques from the Pre-Field Department offering ideas to aid the ministry of the local church to its missionaries.
- Whenever possible, be visited by the pre-field director annually.
- Provide the Message magazine. ABWE’s annual financial statement is available upon request.
ABWE’s anticipates the sending church will:
- Faithfully and knowledgeably pray for your missionary; regularly keep their ministry and needs before the church family.
- Work closely with ABWE in assisting, encouraging and advising the missionary.
- Provide logistic support for your missionary throughout their pre-field ministry.
- Assist the missionary in finding opportunities to present their ministry in like-minded churches.
- Financially support your missionary as generously and sacrificially as possible, considering your own sent missionary to be a priority in missionary giving.
- Provide opportunities for ministry that coincide with the missionary’s pre-field schedule in other churches.
- License or ordain men when field ministries require it.
- Publicly commission your missionary before departure for language school or the field.