HOW DO I BECOME A MISSIONARY?

Here are some basic suggestions for how you can begin your missionary journey.

Join others

• Visit the Guidance section of Ask A Missionary
• Watch the video testimonies at Preparing To Go
• Tell your pastors, family, and significant others about your interest in mission and be open to their counsel.
• Join a ministry of your home church, for spiritual growth and for ministry experience.
• Go on a short-term mission trip sponsored by your church or a mission agency that you are interested in.
• Enlist others who will lift you up in prayer and encourage you throughout this process.

Learn more

• Take Perspectives, a one-semester course taught in over 200 locations.
• Read Send Me
• Read mini-mission biographies under the resource section of The Traveling Team website.
• Read full mission biographies
• Read On Being a Missionary
• Read more mission books at William Carey Library
• Subscribe to Mission Frontiers

Pray for missionaries and the unreached

• Get to know individual missionaries personally. This would include receiving their newsletters, praying for them, and financially supporting their ministries.
• Subscribe to the Global Prayer Digest
• Pray for countries with the book Window on the World, Operation World, or Operation World online.
• Pray through recent mission news

Preparing to Go?

• Consider a Mission Training International workshop on language acquisition and entering a new culture, even for your children!
• Find out what options to go are available to you—denominational mission structure, your local church (by itself or with a partner mission agency), or through an interdenominational mission agency. Ask your pastor what mission agencies are already connected to your local church.
• Seek some general counsel at the Mission Agencies section of Ask a Missionary.
• Read up on a few of the larger interdenominational agencies out there:
  Youth with a Mission
  Wycliffe Bible Translators
  Frontiers
  New Tribes Mission
  Pioneers
  OMF International
  Africa Inland Mission
  Mission Aviation Fellowship