Missionary Mediators: Three Ways Churches Remember the Sent

One of my favorite recurring events in the life of our church is something we call “Stories from the Field.” Just as Paul and Barnabas gathered their sending church to report “all that God had done with them” among the Gentiles (Acts 14:27), our church gathers every year to hear directly from our visiting missionaries about what God is doing among the nations. Face-to-face reports like these can fuel a congregation’s prayer life and ongoing care for missionaries.But often, our missionaries are n