Missions Survey for Congregations from National & Global Missions and Ecumenical Relations Committee

Name a pressing need of your congregation for nurturing mission support, interest, education, and experiences.

What kinds of mission experiences would be helpful to your congregation?
____ Intergenerational trips to Mexico border
____ Disaster Assistance and Response in USA
____ Helping Hands (organizing to do repairs at Presbytery or congregational level)
____ “Elderhostel” experience with mission and spirituality emphasis
____ Weekend mission experiences, including service, fellowship and spiritual development, at sites within Presbytery for middle and senior high youth groups)
____ Other (please specify)

Name up to three people in your congregation who you think would be interested in receiving more information about mission team opportunities? Give contact information, if known.

Has your church done a mission trip or had members take part in a Presbytery in the past two year? Where?

Would you like help in planning such an experience? ? What would be helpful to you in finding ways to nurture the spiritual development of the whole congregational (rather than just the active participants) as a result of the mission experience?
____ Training for mission team leaders
____ Printed resources to help in planning & implementing a trip
____ Help in locating an appropriate place to go
____ Speaker to educate and inspire the congregation about mission trips
____ Ideas on how to involve the whole congregation in the experience
____ Other (please specify)

Do you think your Christian Education Committee would be interested in and use a four session module of material focused on our Guatemalan partnership? If so, in what context?
____ Sunday School (e.g., the Rotation Model) ____ Youth
____ Vacation Bible School ____ Other (please specify)

Does your church currently support specific missionaries? Whom?

How can NGMER help you provide a context for your members to consider God’s call to mission service?

Please use the back to give other suggestions/requests that may be helpful to NGMER in its efforts to help congregations grow in their faithfulness through mission.

Your name___________________________________ Church _____________________

Please return to PWNC Mission Survey, 114 Silver Creek Rd., Morganton, NC 28655