For those who would like to use their professional skills to assist career missionaries in reaching people for Christ, there is now a new vehicle available in partnership with the BBFI’s World Mission Service Center known as The World Initiative Network (WIN).  Those with skills, training and experience such as educators, medical personnel, counselors, builders, mechanics, and many others, can now serve on the mission field in support and assistance in church planting and development of churches.  By helping develop infrastructural needs such as feeding centers, nutritional services, orphanages, medical clinics, and camp administrators, missionaries can now have a more significant impact on the communities they serve.  Retirees, who are primarily self-funded, now have a way to invest their skills and ministry expertise to assist missionaries.  In addition, if you are a church planter living in a foreign country, you may apply to use the services of WIN. Non-USA citizens will be accepted into the WIN program as long as they are the spouse of an accepted WIN missionary who is a USA citizen.

WIN missionaries will initially be screened by the WIN leadership and final acceptance will be determined by the Acceptance Committee. WIN acts as a contractual partner alongside the local church and the WIN missionary to provide services such as receipting, banking, legal reporting and documentation, Crisis Action Team support and much more.  Sending churches who have struggled to provide these services for their missionaries no longer have to keep up with the details and changes in regulations. There is an option of a 3% or 5% fee for these services depending on the amount of assistance one desires.

WIN missionaries will be required to spend two full days at the WIN office to finalize all documents and receive instructions related to financial reporting and receipting of income and expenses.  The sending pastor is also asked to attend this meeting either in person or via SKYPE.

To learn more about the WIN program, contact the WIN office at 866-474-4278, email info@worldinitiativenetwork.org or go online to www.worldinitiativenetwork.org.