Leading Your Church to Support Missions and Send Missionaries
How does a church move from giving little to missions to sending missionaries across the globe? Marshall Blalock tells the story of First Baptist Charleston, once minimally engaged in missions but now sending and supporting workers on three continents.
The article highlights four practical ways pastors and leaders can build a missions culture:
Missions in Preaching – Keep the Great Commission central in sermons and celebrate stories from the field.
Missions in Prayer – Make missionary prayer personal, specific, and consistent in worship services.
Missions in Partnerships – Build strong relationships with missionaries and ministries that stretch your church beyond its comfort zone.
Missions in Practice – Send volunteers, support missionaries in tangible ways, and cultivate new calls to global service.
Blalock reminds us that “a missions culture develops when the pastor and the church leadership resonate with the heart of God for lost humanity.” This resource is a compelling vision piece for pastors who want to lead their churches into deeper global engagement.
Shannon Ford
Missions Director, shannonford@ibsa.org