They are on the front lines battling the enemy. Often they are isolated from friends of the same culture. How many times a week are they tempted to come home? They need fans cheering them on, people who consistently and sensitively care.

Call any of the agencies listed in this site for names, addresses and e-mails of missionaries.

You may want to encourage your Sabbath School class, small group or entire church to adopt one or more missionaries.

Here's What You Can Do to Energize a Missionary:

• Send encouraging letters, inspirational articles and newspaper clippings.
• Mail something to make them laugh – a good joke, a cartoon, a fun video.
• Send a relative or best friend for a visit at a time of special need.
• Remember holidays with special items to remind them of home. (Christmas alone in a Buddhist country. 4^th of July near anti-Americans.)
• Mail sermon tapes or record a tape of you talking and praying for them. (Check to see what will actually make it to them by their postal service. Check with their agency to find someone who can hand carry it).
• Send a copy of a worship service in which your church has highlighted their work and prayed specifically for them.
• Ask them what they need, then find a way to get it to them. It might be books or tools they can't get where they are. It could be a resource for their ministry like refurbished computers. Perhaps they need someone to visit short-term, like an accountant to help them with their books, or an advisor to help get them back on track in home schooling, a contractor for a building project or someone with medical skills. Recruit someone!
• Tell them about excellent internet sites that would encourage them. For starters there are these two: www.missionsandmarriages.org; www.asbury.edu/academ/psych/mis_care/index.htm (which is about Mental Health and Missionary Care).
• Offer to mail their newsletter to supporters, since it will be cheaper from where you are.
• If you are a short wave radio operator, set up a phone-link with the missionaries' families.
• Student Missionaries can be especially encouraged by their church family doing such things.