10 Ways to Encourage a Missionary

Mark Rogers over at The Gospel Coalition Blog has posted a list of 10 practical ways to encourage a missionary.  I thought it was a pretty good list.

1. Pray for them and let them know that you are doing so frequently.
2. Send “real mail.”
3. Pray for the people the missionaries serve and not only for the missionaries and their families.
4. Recruit others to pray for the missionary’s area of service (city, people group, etc.) or for the missionaries themselves.
5. Go visit them with the purpose of serving and encouraging them in their work.
6. Send them updates and pictures of you and your family (by mail or email).
7. Ask questions about their work.
8. Continue to be a Christian friend and continue to minister to them.
9. Support them financially.
10. Seek to encourage them when they are on stateside assignment.

Read the whole article here.