A Goal in the Philippines (3a) Self-Supporting Churches
Daniel Kleyn examines the practical challenges of establishing self-supporting churches in cross-cultural mission work, particularly when significant economic disparities exist between the sending and receiving contexts. The article addresses critical questions about the proper use of financial resources in missions to avoid creating dependency and to foster indigenous churches that are genuinely self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting.
Previous article in this series: May 1, 2012, p. 356. Money plays a significant role in missions. In fact, we could not do mission work without it. We need money in order to investigate fields. We need money to prepare men to be missionaries, and to support those men and their families as they do the work on our behalf. We need money for mission field expenses, such as travel, literature, conferences, ministerial training, etc. Few would disagree that the work of preaching the gospel in all...
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