Showing posts with label Missionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missionary. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Missionary Paid Position - Missions With a Paycheck, a Rare Find in Ministry

Living a life of love and service demands great sacrifice. I know personally from the over 15 years I have served in missions and ministry.

Although I had a wonderful and unforgettable experience traveling to over 50 countries of the world, my continual struggle was providing for myself and family financially. Living off of freewill offerings and the whim of a sponsor who feels emotionally inclined to give one month, but forgets there annual commitment midstream is no easy task. Nevertheless God is faithful and always managed to supply our needs.

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Among some of the part-time jobs I took while living and working abroad is one of my personal favorites - teaching English to students of other languages. Finding a faith based school that allows you to impart morality and godly values while you are teaching is a bit harder to find. Thankfully however my many years of traveling the globe, making friends, and building professional networks has given me an unusual cross-cultural bond with employers.

While stationed here in the United States, I have had the joy and privilege of connecting people to the overseas teaching market and facilitating meaningful employment. Many discover that living abroad is far less stressful and way more relaxing than living capitalistic countries in the western hemisphere that are mostly monetarily motivated. Moreover living abroad allows a professional ample time to enjoy their life, rediscover their own values, reconnect with themselves, and expand their horizons as they experience a new culture. Meeting new people abroad opens up a world a lifelong friendships and marriages for many singles.

Truly dreams do come true! Learn from the wise and master your money when doing missionary work. If you can secure yourself financially to undergird your ministry, your life will be far more enjoyable and less stressful. Solid contacts and faith based employers who celebrate and compensate you is worth its weight in gold.

Live your missionary dream, while working for Christian employer who will celebrate and financially compensate you. The world of missions and ministry must be sustained financially, without which the missionary will sink into despair and be unable to adequately care for him or herself. Enter a new world of ministerial service and missions, pioneering a path that is profitable spiritually and financially.

Missionary Paid Position - Missions With a Paycheck, a Rare Find in Ministry

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Missionary Travel Made More Affordable

Here's a very interesting statistic: did you know that missionaries are the class of people with the fourth highest travelling miles tucked under their belts? They only trail tourists, businessmen, and students. This number is testament to how committed missionaries are with the goal of spreading the word of God all over the world.

Here's the deal though: missionary travel is often self-financed. Rare are the times when missionaries do find a sponsor who will shoulder their travel expenses. Often, missionaries must find ways to come up with the amount needed to reach their remote destinations.

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But missionary travel doesn't have to be expensive - at least not as expensive as how it'll ordinarily be.
There are ways by which you can save on missionary airfare.

The best way to reduce the cost of missionary fares is by arranging your travel via a mission travel agency. A missionary travel agency is a service that provides packages specifically for people who travel to different parts of the world to spread the Good News. A missionary travel agency realizes the financial toll that these travels take, and it is committed to making things a little lighter for servants of God.

In what way will your missionary travel expenses be reduced?

1. Mission travel agencies are very flexible to the needs of missionaries. Such services perfectly understand the economic requirements of missionary travels and how difficult it is to comply with them given the humble lifestyle that missionaries live. Compromises can be made, payment scheduling can be arranged, and certain impositions can be waived just to ensure that the missionary travel pushes through.

2. Mission travel agencies offer low one-way airfares. Often, conventional travel agencies provide discounts for roundtrip tickets while rendering one-way tickets quite costly. Missionary travel agencies can extend one-way tickets at roundtrip prices. Missionaries often go to a place without any plans of coming back until their goals are met. Rare are the times that missionaries book for roundtrip tickets, and mission travel agencies are aware of this.

3. Mission travel agencies can provide wholesale prices for airfare. Some travel agencies can afford to render such prices for their tickets but they are selective as to the timing of when to offer the same. Missionary travel agencies believe that, for missionaries, anytime is the right time to provide low priced airfares.

One of the fundamental tenets of a mission is to teach people that serving others is how God wants us to live our lives. Missionary travel agencies exist to serve missionaries and help them render their service to others who need to learn God's will.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Missionary Airfare For Your Missions Trip

Preparing for your missions trip is very exciting, and you will want to make sure you have taken each step very carefully to have a successful missions trip experience. Foreign missions will need some intricate planning to make sure that all the details are covered. You will want to think about several things. First of all, preparing your heart is the most important step. Prayerful consideration and seeking the Lord are the most important and vital components of any mission trip.

The Word of God shares how we can be prepared with the full armor of God. Ephesians chapter 6 outlines the full armor we need to have in place in order to stand strong for the Lord! Prayer is a vital step and seeking the Lord in your plans. You will want to be prayerful and wait upon the Lord. A sensitive heart towards the Lord with an openness to go and preach the gospel to every creature is the first step in preparing for your missions trip.

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Practically, there are some other steps to consider in preparing to go on an international missions trip. You will want to make sure you have your Missions Pastor or a Missionary Travel Specialist helping you in your planning process.

Many people are not aware that Missionary and Humanitarian Airfare is available to them if they are taking a mission trip. You can book your trip up to 11 months in advance with little or no money down in most cases to allow you to raise support while still holding your flights. This is such an amazing tool that many people are not aware is available to them if they are traveling for missionary or humanitarian related purposes.

Adoption travel is also an area which qualifies for humanitarian airfare. Many adopting families are able to benefit from humanitarian airfare when traveling to visit their child and pick them from another country. This can be a huge blessing when adopting internationally to have a travel agency who will work out all of the details of adoption travel, setting the adopting parent's mind at ease.

Dependable missions travel companies hold contracts with major airlines to provide you with missionary airfare for your missions trip. A travel specialist who is specifically praying for your trip is very important. You will want to have someone who is available to you through each step of the process from booking your flights, to baggage, and layover questions.

Safe Travels,

Tabitha Lovell, International Travel Specialist
MKI Group Travel
http://www.cheapmissionstrips.com

Missionary Airfare For Your Missions Trip

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