What is a care team? Simply put, a care team is a group of people who have committed to the care of a missionary. Normally, care teams meet monthly to pray and plan. There are a few different support roles on a care team: moral, logistics, financial, prayer, communications, reentry, and team leader.

Care Teams

Let’s dive in and take a closer look at the different parts of the care team:

Roles

• Missionary: the person heading out to share the love of Christ (Deb).

• Moral: giving an encouraging word, holding me accountable to Jesus Christ and to do what I said I would do. An ongoing relationship to provide encouragement and accountability.

• Logistics: details, details, details. Helping me get what is needed to function, whether in the country I am serving in or with things back home.

• Financial: money. To provide financially for ministry activities and day to day living expenses.

• Prayer: spiritual covering. To provide a first line of defense, praying for me on a regular basis.

• Communications: staying connected to what is going on back home. Keeping me connected to my home of origin, the people and happenings.

• Reentry: Helping me transition to my original culture. To provide help in fully integrating my new self into my old environment.

• Team Leader: one person at home in charge of coordinating the care team.

There can be additional roles as needed. For instance, research. Right now in this time of preparation to return to the field, many things need looked into. People are participating by researching things like language acquisition and church locations.

Mission

Spreading the love of Christ with everyone I encounter (see End Game). A missionary normally focuses on sharing the good news with one people group. I feel God is pointing me to share His love with Norwegians.

Monthly Meetings

Care team meetings for the Norway mission will begin soon. You can join the care team in person or on the online stream.

There will be an interest meeting in January where we will discuss the roles, the mission and vision, and spend some time in prayer. I invite you to come and see if God is asking you to share His love with Norwegians, too. Please enter your email here to get information about the Norway Care Team interest meeting.

Should you have questions about how you can get involved, send me an email today.

Note: Should you want more information about Care Team Roles and supporting a missionary you can read Serving as a Sender by Neil Pirolo.