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Editor’s note: Over the past year, I have been sending out our prayer requests using a new website called Prayvine. Prayvine is a free and secure service for mission workers. It’s goal is to both increase the number of people who pray and also increase the number of people who let the missionary know that they are praying for them. I now regularly receive emails from more than 10% of my mailing list saying that they are praying for me. Many of them include personal comments. Recently, I received an email from Prayvine, listing some comments from Prayvine users about what they learned about using the service over the past year. This email can also found on the Prayvine blog. The founder and creator of PrayVine, Ian Hsu, has graciously give permission to repost it on our SEND U blog. As we embark on a new year of partnership with… Read the whole post

This entry is part 1 of 13 in the series "Follow-up". There doesn’t seem to be a lot of discussion on models of follow-up with churches once the church planter moves on. Church planters with denominational missions usually connect their new churches to some kind of organizational structure. This might be a national version of the denomination to which they belong. But non-denominational missions may not form any type of structure that would allow their church plants to relate to the founding organization or other churches. I have observed churches that were planted by one mission organization seeking help from another church planting organization. They did so because there was no structure that would connect them to other churches. It seems to me that some form of church-to-church relationship ought to be in place before the missionary moves on. Otherwise, these churches will feel abandoned when the missionary departs. .… Read the whole post

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Connecting Well with Ministry Partners through Prayvine

The importance of follow-up with churches