Hello, missionary Matthew Stuckey here to the island of Luzon and I wanted to make another
video talking about the preparation for becoming a missionary.
Now with the understanding that you're not going to be going to Bible college to get
ordained and go to deputation and have all these churches support you, if you're going
to do things the scriptural way of getting ordained by a local church, you have to understand
that local church might not be able to supply you with $3,000 a month and make you full
time from day one.
Most missionaries, they are full time from day one and they have all these churches supporting
you, but if you do things the scriptural way, you're not going to have all that support.
You're not going to be having as much money coming in and so you need to plan ahead of
time financially with what your plan is and to be a missionary and or whether it's a pastor
in America or a missionary overseas, it's the same way.
You might have to, you know, work, you might have to do things and be wise and so one thing
that you need to do is you need to save up money before you become a missionary.
Now this is a very logical and important part of this because the reality is most people
that become missionaries are probably going to go to foreign fields where the value of
a dollar is actually a lot more.
If you save up $100 in the US, it could mean $200, $300, $400, $500 in the place you're
going.
It takes a lot of sense to be very careful on your expenses and not spend much before
you become a missionary because that money will have so much more value once you go overseas
and so if you're able to be very stingy and save up $4,000, $5,000, that's going to go
a long way.
It's going to be worth a lot more than $4,000 or $5,000 once you're overseas so it makes
sense if you're planning to be a missionary, really save up and be smart with your money
ahead of time, but aside from that, you also have to think about what am I going to do
for work?
You say, but I'm going to be a missionary.
I'm going to be full-time.
Well, the reality is you're probably not going to have full-time missionary support money.
You're probably not going to have a ton of churches that are going to support you and
you have to figure out what am I going to do to have money coming in every month.
Now you know if you're able to build a ministry and you have a lot of people donating to you
and you're able to be full-time, praise the Lord for that, but I wouldn't just plan on
that and just say I want to be full-time from day one.
The reality is you're going to have to think about what sort of job can I do over there?
What jobs can I do online where I can make money and maybe start that in the U.S. before
I go to the mission field?
You need to plan financially.
You say, why are you talking about this?
The reason why I'm talking about this is because I know several people that have moved here,
people that moved to our church and things such as that, they didn't really have a plan
and quite honestly, they had to move back.
It just didn't work out for them and honestly, the large reason why is because they just
weren't financially prepared and this is something that's a very important part of
being a missionary.
You need to make the preparation ahead of time to know what you're planning to do because
and the reality is you're probably not going to be full-time from day one.
There's nothing wrong with that.
There's great men of God that are not full-time.
In the U.S., great pastors that are not full-time and Lord willing, they will be one day, but
if you're not able to, that's fine.
You're going to have to figure out what you're going to do financially.
Prepare yourself.
Thank you and God bless.
God bless.