Missionary Support: The Heartbeat for Missions

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Missionary Support The Heartbeat for Missions

• Presented by the EPC Committee on Mission
  Personnel

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• Go therefore and make disciples of all nations
  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
  the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them
  to obey everything I have commanded you.
• Matthew 2819-20b

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Whom shall I send, and who will go for us...
Mozart Adevu - Ghana
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Here am I
Lithuania Initiative
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send me.
Here am I send me. Isaiah 68
Ukraine
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Let the children come to me
James Dwyer - Germany
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and do not stop them
Shana Harrison - Chile
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for it is to such as these
Randy Webster - Honduras
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that the kingdom of God belongs.
Let the children come to me and do not stop them
for it is to such as these that the kingdom of
God belongs. Luke 1816
Jerry Savuto - Kenya
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Support for Persons Serving in Missions

• World Service Fund
• United Methodist Women
• Investments
• Covenant Relationship Program (part of the
  General Advance)

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Just as you did it
Cambodia Initiative
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to one of the least
Imelda Ramos - Alaska
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to one of the least of these
Jeff Hoover Democratic Republic of Congo
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who are members of my family
Helen Sheperd - Mongolia
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you did it to me.
Just as you did it to one of the least of these
who are members of my family, you did it to me.
Matthew 2540b
Elma Jocson - Nepal
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Covenant Relationship Program

• Connects congregations primarily with
• missionaries who receive all of their
• support through the General Board of
• Global Ministries (GBGM)

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Covenant Relationship Activities

• Prayer
• Communication
• Financial Support
• Visits when possible

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Goals of EPC

• Establish 6 new covenant relationships per
  district, for a total of 36 new covenants
• Create Individual covenants at 500 per year
  minimum
• Create cluster church covenants
• Establish full covenant support to large
  membership congregations _at_ 55,000 per year

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Three Ways to be in a Covenant Relationship with
GBGM Missionaries
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Three Ways to be in a Covenant Relationship with
GBGM Missionaries

• Local Church Covenant Relationship
• 5/member/year

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Three Ways to be in a Covenant Relationship with
GBGM Missionaries

• Local Church Covenant Relationship
• 5/member/year
• Church Cluster Covenant Relationship
• 5/member/year

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Three Ways to be in a Covenant Relationship with
GBGM Missionaries

• Local Church Covenant Relationship
• 5/member/year
• Church Cluster Covenant Relationship
• 5/member/year
• Individual/Small Group Covenant Relationship
• Minimum of 500/year

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GO
Joseph and Marilyn Sovann Chan - Cambodia
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...and make disciples
Esglesia Betlem - Spain
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...of all nations.
Kristin Markay - Italy
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What Can YOU Do to Support Missions

• Pray for all persons serving in mission!
• Write letters, send emails to our mission
  personnel
• Talk to your local congregations mission
  chairperson about increasing your congregations
  support to missionaries
• Prayerfully consider entering into an individual
  covenant

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• Seek out Pilot leadership representative(s) for
  additional information and to lend your support
• Visit the Conference Committee on Mission
  Personnel table while at Annual Conference

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And God is able to provide you with every
blessing in abundance so that by always having
enough of everything, you can share abundantly in
every good work. II Corinthians 98
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Missionary Biography

• Pray for your missionary here at Annual
  Conference
• Pray for your missionary monthly during your
  churchs prayer time
• Communicate with the missionary
• Enter into a Covenant Relationship as a local
  church, cluster of churches, individual, or small
  group