Each year, tens of thousands of missionaries serve around the world. However, sending churches face high attrition rates; some can be traced back to not having a properly implemented missionary care program at their sending church. To ensure that missionaries can complete their service, churches need to have a well-developed support system.
Three things need to be considered in regards to a missionary care team.
- It lowers the attrition rate, but it also values the lives of the missionaries that were sent to the field.
- It protects the invested finances, and the time it took to establish the work.
- It guards the witness for the Kingdom of God in the community where the mission work was established.