Make prayer the missions priority for your missions team and your
congregation.
- Set a personal example by praying for one or more missionaries
daily.
- Set a team example by praying first in every missions
team meeting.
- Program prayer in every missions activity.
- Include prayer for missions and missionaries in every
corporate prayer meeting.
Recognize that people are motivated to pray for people they love.
- Develop personal prayer for missionaries based on relationships.
- Set a goal for number of people who will commit to
pray for a missionary.
- Use the missions conference to inspire individuals
to pray for a missionary.
- Ask individuals to commit to pray faithfully for one
year for a specific missionary.
- Ask them to write the name of the missionary on the
conference commitment card.
- Provide the names of those who sign up to the missionaries
they will pray for.
- Ask the missionaries to send their prayer letters to
those individuals.
- Remind the individuals of the commitment they made.
- Renew prayer sign-ups annually.
Facilitate Ongoing Relationship Development
- Encourage the missionaries and the individuals to develop
relationships.
- When your missionaries visit your church, facilitate
their meeting with their prayer partners.
- Communicate success stories.
Pray corporately for the world, countries and people groups.
- Use attractive resources such as You Can Change the
World.
- Participate in the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted
Church.
- Personalize where possible by identifying countries
and peoples with missionaries you support.
Source: "How to Pray for the World and Love It," ACMC
workshop by Doug Christgau, ACMC 2000
