About a year ago David Platt challenged his church to dedicate 2% of their time to missions every year. As a missionary I got excited about the potential of new short and long term personnel headed to the field. I have had the privilege to work with some of these short and midterm members from Brookhills and am excited about their passion for the nations.

But recently it got me thinking. How much time do missionaries give their sending churches. Is it 2%? Do missionaries spend the right amount of time communicating and interacting with their sending churches? This is a great question for mission personnel to consider as we serve abroad. I understand that the relationship between sending church and missionary can be anywhere from great… to no relationship at all. In my first three year term I had five main sending churches. Only two communicated with us in those three years. It's sad I know. But it made me think of what missionaries can do to have better communication with sending churches.

So I am challenging all of those I lead and… anyone who happens to read this Blog, to spend two or more percent of their time communicating with their sending church. Dedicating two or more percent to interact, build relationships and community among the ones that pray for you and send you out to minister in the world. In my opinion it's a win, win and mission personnel need to take up this challenge with open arms.

Tags: Missionary, Churches, Platt, Brookhills