GRACE BIBLE CHURCH

Some missionaries are not featured on the website because they serve in places that are unsafe. If their name is published on the internet here, they could possibly be harmed over there.  In many cases, it might not be the missionary who is in danger, but new believers, or not-yet believing friends who could be threatened. 

Other reasons: In some cases its not so much personal danger as identity theft and fraud that could happen to people overseas using their personal or family information.  Some are not yet on our site because they want to see what the site is like before submitting information to join it. Some missionaries have yet to be asked to participate due to the senstivity of communicating with them. 

So how can we learn about their needs and pray for them if they are not listed here?

1. Personal correspondence:  Most missionaries are willing to send you a prayer letter or email directly to your address, even if they do not want that information available on the internet through Google or Yahoo.  Many will still send paper letters (remember those?) to your home. But we are going to respect their privacy and preferences in terms of posting information we know on this public website.

2. Personal calls and chat:  some of our missionaries are available by phone, the Skype internet phone service, or chat also know as IM (internet messaging).  If you are a personal friend, or Facebook acquaintance or Skype user, you might talk to your missionary this way. Even so, we aren't posting what you know on this site.

3. Printed materials at church:  Most of our missionaries do not mind if we print information about them and have it available in the lobby of the church.  They are less worried about what we know than what hostile people in their city can easily find out and perhaps misuse.

How do we decide who gets on and who doesn't?  Basically, its up to our missionaries.

We are asking our missionaries to decide if they should be in one of three "zones."

Green Zone:  The missionary is happy to have us publish information about his family, his ministry, and his country.
 

Yellow Zone:  The missionary wants to review or write any information published about his family or his ministry.  We can write about his country.

Red Zone:  Nothing will appear about the missionary or his family.  We can write about the country and culture, but not the missionary.

Missionaries can, of course, request we change something that we put up about them at any time, whatever zone they have put themselves in.

Keep checking back from time to time as more missionaries decide to join and begin writing stories for our website or sending us resources for learning about their country.

Pastor Dana