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How do I know I am called?

I have met many individual missionaries that come home from the mission field because God crossed the door. However, they feel like and are often received home as failures. But is this true? Did you fail in your calling or did you simply misunderstand your calling? When talking about calling […]

How Long is the Call?

December 16, 2016 in Care Team / How do I know I am called? / Missionary Care / Re-entry Shock / Sending Church/Missions Organization / The Missions Pastors Role / The Sr. Pastors Role / Training / Understand the Struggles by Mike Thiemann

I will often here this statement from people – I know I am called to missions, I just don’t know where. What should I do? First, off be encouraged because God has a plan for you He just needs to prepare you first. Here are some pointers that I will give […]

What Should I do if I Don’t Know Where I ...

December 15, 2016 in How do I know I am called? / Prayer / Short Term Missions / The Missions Pastors Role / The Sr. Pastors Role by Mike Thiemann

Needs and the mission field go hand in hand. The needs are more often then not completely overwhelming. We hear emotional appeals from the pulpit about the starving kids in Africa or the victims of sex trafficking in India and we are stirred to the core to do something. Helping with […]

The Needs are too Great

December 15, 2016 in Cultural Awareness / Culture Shock / How do I know I am called? / Missionary Care / Prayer / The Missions Pastors Role / The Sr. Pastors Role / Training / Ways to Help On The Field Missionaries by Mike Thiemann

“Not called!” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to […]

The Call to Missions

December 9, 2016 in How do I know I am called? / Sending Church/Missions Organization / The Missions Pastors Role / The Sr. Pastors Role / Training / Warfare by Mike Thiemann

“Missions is the province of every Christian, not just of specialists.” – On Being a Missionary The very existence of the New Testament church is because we are suppose to be an evangelistic entity. The role of the pastor/teacher is for the “equipping of the body for the work of […]

Is Missions For Everyone?

December 8, 2016 in How do I know I am called? / Missiology / Sending Church/Missions Organization / Short Term Missions / The Missions Pastors Role / The Sr. Pastors Role / Training by Mike Thiemann

In the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 9 Jesus gave a commission to His disciples – “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.” I think we are afraid to […]

Why We Are Afraid to Pray

December 8, 2016 in Care Team / How do I know I am called? / Prayer / Sending Church/Missions Organization / The Missions Pastors Role / The Sr. Pastors Role by Mike Thiemann

I have heard many financial appeals from well meaning individuals that say something like, “western missionaries are not needed anymore. It costs to much money. They are two high maintenance. It will take them 10 year before they are really ready and useful for the ministry in such-and-such country because they […]

Should we still be sending missionaries?

December 8, 2016 in How do I know I am called? / Missiology / Sending Church/Missions Organization / The Missions Pastors Role / The Sr. Pastors Role by Mike Thiemann

When we approach the topic of missions and missions training the task is daunting. Missions is a HUGE topic with many paths that need to be considered. Global missions today has greatly changed over the past 50 years. The west is no longer the missionary sending hub that it once […]

The Missions Venture

December 8, 2016 in How do I know I am called? / Missiology / Sending Church/Missions Organization / Training by Mike Thiemann