How much does it cost to support a missionary?
• $49,800 a year (average)
• $4,150 a month
• $958 a week
• $136 a day
Reported May 2012. Support includes housing, salary, children’s education, medical expenses, retirement and more.
IT’S LOTTIE MOON CHRISTMAS OFFERING
TIME AGAIN!
(And that’s a very good thing!)
I pulled the statistics above from the website listed and posted them here for your benefit.Statistics can be a very dry read but being the parent of a missionary, these figures become quite personal. Because I know that people who are not involved with missions as I am, tend to overlook an offering such as Lottie Moon, I hope that God can use something I blog here to spark your interest and motivate you to want to give to this offering.
WHY, you may ask?
If you will notice, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering has not met its goal for the past several years. Yet, the figures for supporting our missionaries continues to rise. For me, as the mom of a missionary, this is alarming! Oh, I know we are facing harsh economic challenges here in our own country and that might cause us to assume that we can’t give to LM this year. After all, it’s Christmas time and we need to do all that we can to provide what Christmas we can for our own. I am in sympathy with that. That’s why people have to make giving to LM a deliberate matter of prayer. God knows what He’s able to do through us so we need not assume that He is challenged by our meagerness. But should that be a challenge for God? Read the following verse before you respond:
Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Malachi 3:10
I sort of got the feeling the above verse says it all!
Our missionaries depend on us to do the
following:
1 – PRAY and ask God what He would have us give to help sustain our missionaries. (and their precious families, like my daughter-in-law and my new little grandson)
2 – OBEY, once that is made known to us! (We want our missionaries to willingly obey God to tell others about Christ, so we need to be willing to support them so they can!)
3 – GIVE. In prayerful obedience! (Remembering, God is not limited by your means, only by your lack of faith! Matthew 13:58)
I want to personally thank those of you who give to the LM offering. Because you gave, my son had a truck to drive over the challenging roads of the 2 day trip to take my daughter-in-law to her 6 week visits to the doctor; because you gave, my son has a house for his family and the house has electricity (but not for the first few months, that’s why I am so grateful they have it now since my grandson will soon come there!) I could go on and on but suffice it to say, because of the support of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, this mom can be at peace knowing my children are being provided for. And you know what, for all those other parents of missionaries on the foreign field, I say thank you and God bless you for giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering!
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