IMPORTANT – DONATE ACCOUNT
Please note that our Donate account that is registered with Paypal is the Free Presbyterian Mission Society Africa account. This Paypal account is used for all Mission Board work – apologies for any confusion that this may cause. Please ensure that you select the “write a note” option on the second screen and include the area of work that you would like to support with the donation.
All of our missionaries are required to undertake Deputation Meetings around our churches whereby they are given an opportunity to present before the people the work to which they believe God has called them. The offerings which are taken up at these meetings are sent into the Mission Board and are kept for the work of that individual missionary. Each foreign missionary will do a round of such meetings once every three years, and those on the home field will be expected to visit each congregation once in a three year cycle.
These meetings are special times for our people to meet those who work under the Mission Board and to hear of the challenges of the work they represent and to rejoice in what has already been accomplished. They are to be used as ideal opportunities by the visiting missionary to thank the Believers for their prayerful remembrance and financial support.
Individuals or congregations may decide if they wish to send in monthly covenant support to the missionaries which they have been led to support. This monthly covenant support is the steady income which is needed to keep a missionary in the work. Each worker needs to raise 70% of their income through such deputation meetings and regular covenant support.
If every Christian within our denomination was to take on just one missionary and provide them with regular monthly covenant support this would make such a vast difference to our finances within the Mission Board.
The Mission Board also is funded through the offerings which are raised each month in our congregations for the Missionary Council. A monthly grant is made to the Mission Board by the Missionary Council which helps to plug the 30% of the income needed by our missionaries.
Special Missionary Rallies which are held in our congregations are also a wonderful way to highlight the cause of missions and to raise funds for the work.
Oftentimes individuals are lead of God to send in support for missionary causes. It is humbling to see how God moves in hearts to supply emergency needs which arise in the work. Truly He knoweth what we need even before it arises.
Some aged saints who are without immediate dependants have also left legacies and bequests to the Mission Board. This is a good way to make sure that even when your work on earth is over that your material possessions which you have left behind are used to help advance the work of God.
As a Board we can say with one of old “that God’s work done God’s way has never lacked God’s supplies”. We are glad that He knows the needs in the missionary work of our church and has promised to supply them according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
