June 2011 | Vol. 6 | Issue 6

Financing Retired Missionaries
How churches can do right by their veteran workers
“One-third of our budget goes to support retirees,” a missions pastor shares. “We are sinking under the weight.”
“The mission agency made no provision for pensions,” another pastor fumes. “Now they expect us to solve the missionaries’ retirement crises.”
“We’ve given our lives in service, and now when we are old, the church just dumps us,” a missionary says bitterly.
Read this helpful article on addressing this important issue.
