If you take my advice about providing better support to fewer missionaries, you’ve concentrated your kingdom investment portfolio. That makes you more dependent on the faithfulness of their work, and as a result, you’re more likely to hold them accountable. Construct

necessary, but his preference was to receive money from churches (1 Cor. 9:14). This kind of dependence is good for a missionary since it brings accountability, and when urgent needs arise, they know right where to turn. But dependence can go both ways.

You might even have members of your church move their jobs to those same cities to be an encouragement to the work. Instead of funding work as broadly as possible (so your missions bulletin board looks like the United Nations), you could concentrate your efforts geographically so you would be able to support workers better and get to know them

There are significant advantages to supporting multiple workers in the same location or who are doing the same kind of work or are ministering to the same people group.

Greater Support to Fewer Workers Consider the difference between funding 2 percent of the work of fifty missionaries and funding 25 percent of the work of four missionaries.

Those at small churches can thank God for other churches!

It’s hard to get to know a project well; it’s easier to get to know a person well. Find a person in ministry you know well and whom you trust,

My second piece of advice: fund ministries your congregation and leadership know well.

the trust in church leaders that’s necessary for a healthy church culture may be undermined.