Give to a Stronger Future at IM through the General Fund
Through your gift to the IM General Fund, you are giving towards a stronger future at IM. Clint Morgan is challenging 200 individuals and churches to give a $1000 gift to the General Fund on Giving Tuesday. Are you up to the challenge? Any gift helps us reach our goal.
Giving Tuesday is December 3, 2024.
Watch a brief video from CFO, Robert Conley, to understand the importance of a STRONG General Fund.
What does the General Fund do?
The IM Home Team is comprised of the General Director and other Directors of IM, along with their various team members. It is true that they are not directly “in the game” or on the field like our missionaries, but their role is absolutely essential to the success of our mission. They are responsible for all the behind-the-scenes activities that help our missionaries function at their highest level.
The General Fund provides missionary onboarding, training, equipping, and care to allow them to be focused and effective in ministry.
It also provides the oversight and strategic guidance to be purposeful and intentional while also providing the infrastructure and systems necessary to allow missionaries to focus more on field ministry.
IM’s General Fund has gradually decreased over the last several years. We need to solve this challenge or our ability to “launch and safely land” missionaries will be reduced, and ultimately, efforts to carry the Gospel to the ends of the world will be hindered.
Your gift ensures the following ministries and support are available for the missionaries and partners on our fields.
Recruiting
The Home Team is responsible for recruiting, vetting, and training new missionaries. They offer various short-term mission opportunities for high school and college students as well as for adults. These programs have proven to be our best source of identifying and connecting with future missionaries. All missionary applicants go through a rigorous screening to ensure they are qualified spiritually, physically, emotionally, financially, and academically to serve cross-culturally.
Training
The Home Team is responsible for training, shepherding, monitoring, and encouraging our missionaries from application to appointment to assignment. Missionaries are given intensive training and guidance to help them raise and maintain the necessary support to get to and remain on their field.
Logistics
The Home Team relieves the missionaries of the distractions of the mundane, but important, minutia of financial, tax, insurance, and retirement details so that they can focus their attention and energy on ministry. The Home Team collects, records, deposits, and distributes donations to the missionaries’ accounts.
Member Care
Missionaries are shepherded, discipled, coached, encouraged, and celebrated by the Home Team on a continual basis. When hardship, hurt, or heartbreak comes to our missionaries, they know the Home Team is there to provide the loving help and healing they need.
Promotion
The Home Team continually advocates for and promotes our missionaries to our denominational base.
Partnership
The Home Team’s influence also reaches beyond our IM missionaries to our Legacy Partners and Field Partnerships.
Hear from IM missionaries about how the General Fund supports them!
“The General Fund helps us bridge the gap between field-side and Stateside assignments, provides assistance with finance (such as receipt reimbursement and budget oversight), assists us with communication efforts, and helps keep us accountable to the people who are giving so that we can go share the Gospel.”
Daniel Speer
IM Missionary in Japan
“We could not do what God has called us to do in France without the support of the home office. They help us stay on the field and focused on the work here, minimizing our need to focus on administrative tasks Stateside.”
Cristina Price
IM Missionary in France
“We have been on the field a long time and it is a real encouragement to know there are young people being challenged about missions and sent out to serve alongside us thanks to the General Fund.”
Lea Edgmon
IM Missionary in Spain
YOU are vital to continuing the mission of IM. Give towards a stronger future at IM through the General Fund.
We cannot do it without you.
