Our Administrative Services Funding Model
At ABWE, we believe missionaries deserve a funding model that’s simple, fair, and built for long-term gospel impact.
To ensure sustainability and transparency, a 3.5% financial services charge is applied to all donations. Additionally, each career missionary contributes $250 per month toward the cost of the tools, resources, and services they receive as part of the ABWE family.
This approach isn’t about generating more revenue—it’s about faithfully stewarding resources to equip those taking the gospel to the nations.
The 3.5% financial services charge covers:
- Safe, Secure Donation Processing & Receipting
- Friendly, Available Donor Services Team to Assist with Giving-Related Inquiries
- Annual Tax Form Preparation for Donors and Missionaries, Maintaining Compliance
- Simple, Fast Expense Report Processing and Payroll Services
- Bank and Audit Fees to Protect Missionaries and Staff and Ensure Financial Integrity
- Liability Insurance to Guard Global Workers from Risk
- Employment and Legal Compliance to Implement Best Practices for Mission Health
- Personal, Competitive Benefits Coordination and Management to Support Missionaries and Their Families
- Personable, Servant-Hearted Human Resources Team to Provide Guidance, Compliance, and Onboarding Assistance
The $250 monthly missionary services contribution offsets the cost of:
- Technology Support and Custom Software Systems Development
- Attentive, Personal Medical Services and Consultations
- Compassionate Missionary Care for Families and Individuals
- Dynamic, World-Class Training and Resources to Facilitate Long-Term Ministry Endurance and Lifelong Learning
- Ministry Leadership and Administration Providing Vision, Implementing Core Values, and Seeking the Lord’s Direction for the Mission
- Church Engagement Team Ensuring Your Churches Can Effectively “Hold the Rope”
*This $250 contribution is reduced on a sliding scale for accounts with lower monthly donation amounts (e.g., retired, short-term, associate, and prefield missionaries).
Transparency in Costs
At ABWE, we’re committed to transparency—especially when it comes to donor generosity.
When donors give online using a credit or debit card, the transaction fee—typically around 3%—is visible to both the donor and the missionary. For example, if a donor gives $100, approximately $3 is collected by the card processor, and $97 is deposited into the missionary’s ministry account.
To ensure 100% of a gift reaches the field, donors may consider:
- Switching their giving method to eCheck (EFT), or
- Increasing their gift slightly to help offset the processing fees.
For help adjusting a giving method, contact donorhelp@abwe.org. Our team is happy to assist.
The Role of Generosity
We believe a mission agency should bring more value to the missionaries and local churches it serves than it receives from them.
Thanks to generous donors to the Global Gospel Fund and through strategic investments, ABWE is—by God’s grace—able to significantly offset the cost of missionary support. The following services are provided in a self-sustaining way, at no direct cost to missionaries and independent of the financial services charge.
We’re committed to stewarding every dollar with integrity so that more missionaries can thrive and more people can hear the gospel. Thank you for standing with us to equip those who go.