"How to Select a Missions Agency" by John W. McVay, is all about picking the right agency. McVay states that you must have a partnership with a mission agency to be an effective missionary. So, how do you go in the process of choosing one? According to McVay, there are a few questions you must ask. One is what is God's calling on the agency? He lists to different agencies and how they are different. One is called Youth with a Mission, which is devoted to training and short term missions. The other is Wycliffe Bible Translators. Their goal is to translate the Bible into all the languages. Another question you need to ask is how their financial policy is. One agency, WEC International, focuses on God alone to provide all the funds. On the other hand, Wycliffe asks their missionaries to fund themselves. An additional is which countries and people groups is the agency working among? Some agencies have specific locations where the minister at. Others send missionaries all over the world.
As one can see, there are a few things that a missionary needs to consider before picking an agency to work with. I think McVay hit the spot when he said that "Your priority should not be a comfortable fit or even personal fulfillment. Your utmost desire should be to find direction from the Lord of the harvest," (McVay 1). At the end of each of the questions he said that you should contemplate, there was always a "depend on God" sentence. All in all, I liked this article. It had some really good information that I had never thought of before, like that some agencies required seminary degrees, discipleship courses, and bible courses before you could partner with them. Again, the sentence that hit me hard was the one about you not looking for what you desire, but going after what God's plan is for you, and where He wants you.
McVay, John W. "How to Select a Missions Agency." Network for Strategic Missions 12 Nov 2001: 1-2. Web. 1 April 2010. http://www.strategicnetwork.org/index.php?loc=kb&view=v&page=v&id=8617&mode=v&pagenum=1&lang=
As one can see, there are a few things that a missionary needs to consider before picking an agency to work with. I think McVay hit the spot when he said that "Your priority should not be a comfortable fit or even personal fulfillment. Your utmost desire should be to find direction from the Lord of the harvest," (McVay 1). At the end of each of the questions he said that you should contemplate, there was always a "depend on God" sentence. All in all, I liked this article. It had some really good information that I had never thought of before, like that some agencies required seminary degrees, discipleship courses, and bible courses before you could partner with them. Again, the sentence that hit me hard was the one about you not looking for what you desire, but going after what God's plan is for you, and where He wants you.
McVay, John W. "How to Select a Missions Agency." Network for Strategic Missions 12 Nov 2001: 1-2. Web. 1 April 2010. http://www.strategicnetwork.org/index.php?loc=kb&view=v&page=v&id=8617&mode=v&pagenum=1&lang=
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