Missionary Services and Benefits
How We Support Our Missionaries
At ABWE, we work hard to make yielding to God’s call, and serving on a mission field, a little bit easier. We know that foreign missions has a lot of uncertainties, questions, and paperwork, and that’s why we’re here to help.
Our ABWE International Headquarters staff provides our missionaries — as well as their supporters and churches — with the following services:
Resources and Training
- Robust prefield training to prepare our missionaries for service
- Student and Teen Adventure Missions Preparation to help our missionary kids (MKs) adjust to life as a foreign missionary
- Fundraising coaching to help our missionaries meet their fundraising goals
- Online church directory that helps missionaries contact missions-minded churches
- Secure communication services, including secure email, software and ABWE intranet
- Comprehensive, ongoing trainings to help enhance nearly every aspect of our missionaries’ ministry, including:
- Essential Mission Components
- Good Soil Evangelism & Discipleship Seminars
- Basic Bible training for new missionaries
- Missiology & Bible courses that count for graduate-level academic credit
- On-field training to help missionaries grow in their ministry
- Ministry-specific fundraising campaigns and support
- Trainings and requirements specifically aimed to keep children safe from abuse.
Mobilization/Recruitment Resources
- Our 24-Hour Demo event to help prospective missionaries get to know ABWE and learn what life as a missionary is all about
- Immersive student trips and internships that place students on real missionary teams doing actual ministry
- Online applications with built-in tracking to help guide missionaries through each step of the application process
- Personal visits/screenings so each applicant can make sure we are the best fit for their ministry goals.
- Recruitment materials to help our missionaries grow their support base and recruit additional ministry teammates
Financial Support
- Easy online access to personal account information to help missionaries manage their support
- Competitive health/accident/term-life insurance for missionaries
- Retirement planning and defined benefit accounts to give our missionaries peace of mind
- Online expense reports to help missionaries be accountable with their supporters’ funds
Member Care
- Qualified, traveling counseling team to help missionaries in crisis, with pastoral and mental health experiences
- Furlough debriefing and discipling team
- Continual prayer support and spiritual care
- On-site medical doctor with healthcare consultation and services, including emergency assistance
- MK education consultant services
Global Ministry Support
- A Project Office that supplies professional engineering and building expertise to missionaries who want to construct ministry facilities
- Experienced leadership that provides guidance, accountability, and support to field teams and missionaries
- Inspirational skill-building conferences both in North America and in each ministry region
Donor Services
- A dedicated Donor Services team to help missionaries and supporters with their questions or concerns
- Monthly recording and receipting to help donors keep accurate records
- Annual giving statements that meet all IRS non-profit regulations
- Automatic support and secure online giving makes supporting a missionary easy, accurate, and safe
- Legacy Giving support to help donors leave an eternal legacy in world missions
- Support commitment assistance to help missionaries and donors plan for future support
- Missionary accountability reports to help us remain good stewards of donors’ resources
Church Relations
- Training and equipping North American churches to share the gospel, plant churches, and start missions movements
- Multi-cultural outreach training through our Heart, Mind and Soul Seminars
- Discipleship, evangelism, and Bible training through our Good Soil Evangelism & Discipleship Seminars
- Missions conference planning assistance and speakers
- Sending and Sustaining Church Workshops to help churches send and care for their missionaries
- Missionaries, leaders, and experts who can speak or preach at your church
