ANM Sponsorship: Your Key to Global Missions

In these last days, many people are asking, "How can I best use my limited funds to help global missions?" We firmly believe that sponsorship of native missionaries and children represents one of the most economical, fruitful, and wisest ways to maximize your giving for world evangelization.

ANM offers you four different ways to directly help the cause of global missions through sponsorship opportunities:

	1. Sponsor a Native Missionary Every day, hundreds of thousands of native (indigenous) missionaries around the world boldly proclaim the Gospel to millions of lost souls, often with great spiritual fruit. However, many struggle to feed their families because there is no local church in their area to support them financially. Many serve in areas where there are few or no Christians-- hence no local support base. Even in places where there is a small Christian community, the local believers are often too poor to support Christian workers. When you sponsor a native missionary (suggested amount: $50 per month), your gifts will help cover his/her living costs--food, shelter, clothing, etc. Your gifts will also help pay for his/her ministry expenses--Bibles, literature, lanterns, bicycles, etc. In this way, you can help the cause of global missions by covering the cost of sending a worker into the harvest field, who can serve the Lord full-time among an unreached or unevangelized people group. You can sponsor a native missionary online!
	2. Sponsor a Missionary Trainee In Third World countries, there are hundreds of thousands of young students in Bible schools eagerly preparing to enter the ministry. These young people represent the future global missions task force who will take the Gospel to the remaining unreached and unevangelized peoples. Many of these Bible students cannot afford to pay for their education, due to several factors. Those who come from Christian families often hail from poor backgrounds. Those who have converted from other faiths (Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam) cannot expect any kind of assistance from their own families. Moreover, securing a part-time job to help pay for school is not an option in most of the Third World, where even full-time job seekers often remain unemployed due to job scarcity. When you sponsor a missionary trainee (Bible student) (suggested amount: $30 per month), your gifts will help cover his or her educational costs--tuition, books, lodging, food, and clothing. In this way, you will be making a strategic investment in global missions that may bear tremendous spiritual fruit in years to come.   You can sponsor a missionary trainee/Bible student online!
	3. Sponsor a Child Although there are many good children homes and orphanages around the world, ANM assists children homes and orphanages which are run by Christian ministries focused on evangelizing the lost. In the course of reaching the unreached, many native missionaries come across orphaned or underprivileged children who lack proper food, shelter, clothing, and education. In some instances, these ministry leaders have started children homes dedicated not only to feed, clothe, and educate these helpless children but also to raise them up to be effective, fruitful disciples of Jesus Christ. In these children's homes, many boys and girls decide to become followers of Jesus; and as they grow up, some decide to become missionaries to their own people! When you sponsor a native child (suggested amount: $25 per month), your gifts will help cover the costs of his or her food, lodging, education, and clothing. You can sponsor a native child online!
	4. Sponsor a Native Missionary Team Native missionaries seldom work independently, lone-ranger style. Like their Western counterparts, native missionaries generally work under a mission organization, together with other missionaries. A native mission organization may have anywhere from five to five hundred workers. Often several workers are sent to serve in the same area, in order to better evangelize a particular region. When you sponsor a native missionary team (suggested range: $150 to $250 per month), your gifts will help cover the support costs of all the team workers--living expenses plus ministry expenses. You can sponsor a native missionary team onli

Becoming a sponsor of indigenous missions requires just two things: a commitment to give regularly to support one or more native missionaries/children/Bible students, and a parallel commitment to pray regularly for them.

First, click here. You will be asked a series of questions to state your preferences for which kind of sponsorship you are interested in. Upon receipt of your sponsorship application, ANM will send you a Certificate of Sponsorship with a photograph of the one you are sponsoring, as well as a brief bio-sketch about him/her. We will also send you regular updates, so you can pray more effectively for the one you are sponsoring.

We will try our very best to send you updates twice a year from the one(s) you are sponsoring. However, we request your understanding when we are unable to do so due to factors beyond our control. ANM requests all native mission leaders to send us semi-annual reports from the field for each of their sponsored individuals, but sometimes we do not receive them on schedule due to communication difficulties in remote regions, language barriers (when translation services are delayed), natural disasters in the Third World, etc.

ANM sends your gifts to the indigenous mission group leader, who is responsible for distributing the funds among his/her workers, Bible students, and orphan children. Although we inform mission leaders as to which of their individuals are being sponsored, we trust their judgment as far as how to best distribute the funds.

For example, if five out of 20 children in an orphanage have sponsors, how can the mission leader feed, shelter, and educate just five of them and let the other 15 go hungry and without schooling? Is he not compelled to evenly distribute the gifts from the five sponsors among the 20 children? Or if only seven out of ten missionaries in a team have sponsors, can the mission leader withhold living allowances from three evangelists while giving the full allowance to the other seven? ANM trusts each leader to prayerfully make the best decision regarding distribution of funds, particularly when their incoming resources are limited.

ANM's standard administrative portion for all incoming gifts is 10%, which means that 90 cents out of every dollar we receive for sponsorship goes directly to the mission group. ANM is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, and our annual audited financial statements are available upon request.

ANM welcomes you to send letters and family photographs to the individual(s) you are sponsoring. We request that you send them to our office, so that we can forward them to the indigenous mission leader (as many who live in rural villages lack proper mailing addresses). We request that you NOT send gift items of any kind, due to frequent difficulties in getting these items through customs. ANM can also arrange for you to personally go and visit the individual(s) you are sponsoring.

If you would like to ask a question or receive more information please don't hesitate to contact ANM's Sponsorship Department.

If you would like to sponsor a missionary or child please click here.

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