Will your church support many missionaries for a small dollar amount or fewer missionaries for a larger dollar amount? Are you focused on any particular geographic regions? Why use a missionary questionnaire? These are practical questions that a church's missions policy helps answer. In this episode, Marshall Fant discusses with Dave Smith how to craft a church missions policy. As an MK who grew up in Papua New Guinea and then ministered there as a missionary for 10 years, Dave Smith currently serves as the missions pastor at Morningside Baptist Church and director of Open Door Baptist Missions, a ministry of this church in Greenville, SC. You can contact Dave Smith here with any additional questions. 

Two churches have provided samples of their missions policy:

1. Morningside Baptist Church 
2. Harvest Baptist Church

Recommended reading:

Developing a local church philosophy and strategy in missions:

• Senders by Paul Seger (former president of Biblical Ministries Worldwide)
• Missions by Andy Johnson 

Interceding through prayer for missionaries on the frontline:

• The Prayer War by Biblical Ministries Worldwide

Improving your understanding of conservative missiology:

• Pioneer Missions by Forrest McPhail (GFA Missionary to Asia)
• John G. Paton by Paul Schlehlein (ODBM Missionary to Africa) - includes a short biography and missiological principles from the life and ministry of Paton

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