New Funding Models for Global Mission: Learning from the Majority World
Ebook
Financing Mission from Anywhere to Everywhere
Times are changing, and conventional methods of funding missionaries are shifting. Churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America no longer depend on Western funding for sending out their own missionaries. How then does the Majority World fund missionaries?
New Funding Models for Global Mission begins by summarizing how world missions has been funded from the past to the present. It then critiques the common fundraising approach where missionaries raise their own financial support and suggests possible adjustments. Tim Welch presents seventeen other funding models that are more appropriate options for contemporary missionaries, along with an overview of what the Bible says about missionary funding. He concludes with fifteen practical recommendations for individuals, churches, and mission agencies.
This book seeks to give prophetic leadership in order to change systems and practices for successfully resourcing missionaries. New models—better suited to the situation in which the global church finds itself—provide more funding and opportunities to glorify the Lord among the nations.
Chapter 1: Why Study This Topic? 1
Chapter 2: Missionary Funding Past and Present
Chapter 3: What’s at Stake? 13
Chapter 4: Missionary Funding 1.0—Pros and Cons
Chapter 5: Tweaking Tradition
A Third Party
Missionary Pledge Campaigns
A “Mission Start-Up Group”
Diaspora Funding
Chapter 6: Mission Funding 2.0
Tentmakers
Business as Mission (BAM)
Partnerships
Seeking Support from the Mission, Not the Missionary
Twelve-Church Model
“Revolving Savings” for Mission
Crowdfunding
Living Off the Fruit of Ministry
Support That Diminishes over Time
A “Handful of Rice” (buhfai tham)
Part-Time Employment by Wife/Husband
Reducing Costs
Endowment Fund
Supporting a Ministry instead of a Missionary Person/Family
“Mission Designation”
Simplified Procedures
Mission Agencies That Contribute to the Local Church
Activities and Events
Chapter 7: Benefits of Mission Funding 2.0
Chapter 8: What Does the Bible Say about Missionary Support
Who Finances Mission in the New Testament
What is the Appropriate Manner of Giving?
Reviewing a Key Term
What is the Biblical Evident for the Role of a Majority-World Church in Mission?
Chapter 9: A New Economic Standing
Economic Growth
Investments
Remittances
Risks
Telecommunications
Information Technology and E-Commerce
Banking
Money Transfers
What Will the Church’s Response Be?
Chapter 10: A Pastor’s Greatest Fear
Chapter 11: So What?
Appendix: Africa’s New Economic Standing
Acknowledgments
Reference List
This well-researched book will be of benefit for the whole church, especially in the Majority World. Tim presents practical, implementable suggestions of how we gain and use finance in mission.
Peter Tarantal, Associate International Director, OM
This is a very informational and inspirational book for mission workers who want to get creative ideas on how to finance their ministries.
David S. Lim, PhD, Board Chairman, Lausanne Philippines
Sending Kingdom workers to the unreached will be significantly hindered unless we widen our horizons and practice new models of supporting them. Tim provides a rich list of possibilities to stimulate our thinking and offers pragmatic solutions.
Mutua Mahiaini, International President, The Navigators
Tim Welch has written a well-documented approach to the vital issue of funding global mission. It is a must-read for mission donors, foundations, prospective missionaries, and mission leaders.
LuIs Bush, President, Transform World Connections
- Title: New Funding Models for Global Mission: Learning from the Majority World
- Author: Tim Welch
- Publisher: William Carey Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781645084730, 9781645084716, 164508471X, 1645084736
- Resource ID: LLS:9781645084730
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-20T10:06:48Z