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Build health and wellness into long-term personnel through events that address key areas of need which often lead to attrition, including isolation, disconnection, and lack of soul care.
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About This Project
Single adults who commit to career missionary service often become isolated, without long-term community or relationships to sustain them. The ebbs and flows in a walk with God are sometimes difficult for long-term personnel to acknowledge because of expectations about missionary service. Your gift will create spiritual renewal events that target these key need areas of isolation, disconnection, and spiritual dryness can revive long-term personnel, sustaining them for healthy, ongoing overseas service.
Previous events for long-term singles were overwhelmingly effective in meeting needs, building community, establishing a network of support, and providing a focused time of spiritual renewal. The soul-care retreats helped long-term missionaries renew their intimacy with the Father and revitalizing their calling. Your partnership in Soul Care Retreats will allow single career missionaries throughout Asia to gather together for a powerful time of fellowship, encouragement, worship, relationship building, and spiritual teaching. Your support will also provide opportunities for small group soul-care retreats for long-term personnel in the coming years. Prayerfully consider a gift to Soul Care Retreats to convey an awareness of and support for the ongoing needs of career missionaries who may otherwise feel isolated and disconnected from the body of Christ.
Why direct giving matters
Giving directly to a missionary team helps fund the specific, on-the-ground needs your missionaries care deeply about—needs that aren't covered by CP and LMCO alone.
“Our retreat recognizes the unique, often life-long, calling of a single missionary. It is a place to come together to worship, learn from one another, and build community. Unlike the numerous marriage retreats available, we singles are more limited in the resources offered, especially for our unique circumstances.”
Single missionary serving in the Asia Pacific Rim
Your generosity to this ministry allows us to provide annual retreats for long-term single missionaries serving throughout Asia.
What started in 2012 with around 80 singles each paying their own transportation, has grown to 125 participants, graciously made possible by faithful givers like you.
“I usually do not like big meetings because my singleness is really pointed out to in the way things are discussed. This meeting spoke to me and my needs, and I was with other singles like me.”
Missionary serving in South Asia
“This is the best meeting I have ever attended throughout my career! It was encouraging to meet new singles who are also committed to this work. I enjoyed hearing the testimonies, stories, and challenges. These are tough workers!”
Missionary serving with Deaf Peoples
Thank you for meeting the needs of single missionaries serving in Asia by allowing them to retreat together, encourage one another, and learn together.
Please join us in prayer:
Thank you for wrapping your arms of care around single missionaries by giving and praying for them and their ministries.
In the next five years, a globalization goal of all IMB workers is to mobilize 500 local believers to become global missionary partners serving on IMB teams.
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