Choosing a Mission

Have you neglected to make mission giving a part of your life simply because you didn’t know what types of missions were available? Choices have made life easier in some ways and more complicated in others. A person has to choose everything from which brand of soap they’d prefer to which type of grass seed they’ll plant.

It’s easy to sit back and refuse to choose. It’s easy to make excuses to get out of helping with mission work. Maybe you feel you just don’t have the time to participate, which is one good reason your donation is extremely helpful to those who are able to do the footwork and labor.

If you neglect to help because you prefer to keep your money on American soil, that’s not a problem either. There are many missions that help in America and many that give you the choice of which area of need you prefer to enhance with your donation.

Here is a list of some mission choices that are available:

  1. War missions

  2. Clothing missions

  3. Shoes for kids

  4. Missions that rebuild churches

  5. Disaster relief missions

  6. Missions that teach life skills

  7. Missions that teach job skills

  8. Specialty missions

  9. Missions for soldiers

  10. Food missions

The North American Mission Board is one large organization that touches several different areas of need in America as well as abroad. Pregnancy centers for women in crisis, rebuilding after floods, and touching families of our devoted military personnel are some of their ways to reach out.

Missions keep Christian compassion and spiritual guidance alive and thriving. Spiritual healing can bring about physical healing, family healing, mental healing, and the healing of our society. It’s valuable to peace-of-mind and hope.

Another wonderful mission is the Samaritan’s Purse. One of their important functions is helping to battle malaria in Africa. Encephalitis and dengue fever also affect the residents there as a result of mosquito infestations. Because of the constant travel to American soil from Africa, if we keep the diseases under control in Africa there is less disease that makes its way to our soil. So whether you help with an American mission assignment or one that works abroad, you are still helping to ensure the health of our American people.

Mosquito borne illnesses cause brain damage, death, severe muscle pain, flu-like symptoms, rashes, headaches, fever, stiff neck, nausea, and coma. If you can picture the image of a child in tears, moaning, unable to move without pain because of a mosquito bite, human compassion should be all the motivation you need to choose to donate to mission work.