Should I join a mission agency?
What benefits will I gain?
A mission agency:
- Can give you helpful advice on personal and ministry preparation
- Can provide you with important services, such as:
Outgoing support when you go out for the first time:
- Helping you answer questions your friends, church, and supporters may have about your
- Future ministry
- Preparation
- Supervision
- Ongoing support
- Guiding you to fit into the right team
- Assisting you in starting a new team
- Giving advice on obtaining a visa
- Advising you on options for educating your children
- Giving guidance on how you may use your skills, training, and abilities
- Advisinbg you on language learning opportunities
- Ensuring you have suitable medical and emergency insurance and a suitable pension plan
Ongoing field support:
- Providing member care
- Giving regular debriefing, and critical incident debriefing
- Advising on security issues, risk assessment, and contingency planning
- Processing your finances and financial transfers
- Enabling effective and secure communications
- Providing in service training opportunities
Facilitating your home assignments:
- Helping you prepare your intinerary
- Providing you with equipment and materials
- Suggesting contacts and places to share about your ministry
Supporting your final re-entry to your sending country:
- Providing re-entry debriefing to minimize reverse culture shock
- Arranging temporary accomodation
- Assisting you in re-adjusting to living 'at home' again
- Facilitating necessary legal and governmental requirements
Take a look at ReachAcross's mission preparation program and support services
Speak to someone in ReachAcross about how we can support your vision and passion