ServeBeyond: What Happens Next?
From: Sid Bergsma <office@efcc.ca>
Date: January 23, 2025 at 11:21:18 AM MSTSubject: ServeBeyond: What Happens Next?Reply-To: Sid Bergsma <office@efcc.ca>
To our EFCC Churches and mission supporters,
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What is next for our salaried missionaries?
The EFCC Board of Directors will assist the affected missionaries who want to continue in their ministries by helping them transfer to other mission agencies with minimal interruption to their work and ministry. These other agencies are offering to provide the administration and protection each missionary needs as each continues to serve in Gospel mission around the world.
The EFCC Board of Directors proactively sought out several mission agencies that are ready, willing, and able to partner with our missionaries and to ensure the uninterrupted continuation of the missionaries’ ministry and work. We have provided the contact information of those agencies to our missionaries, and are encouraging each missionary to reach out immediately to their agency of choice, as each agency is willing to fast-track them through the transition. We intend to work with the missionaries and their chosen agency to allow transition to occur as seamlessly as possible.
One agency in particular, has offered to act as a temporary sending agency for all of our affected missionaries immediately. Furthermore, this agency is willing to grant each affected missionary a year or more to consider whether they would like to remain with this agency or to partner with a different organization of their choice. This option would provide an immediate transition to ensure that all affected missionaries are cared for and can continue their vital work uninterrupted, while also granting each missionary plenty of time to prayerfully consider the best organization with which to partner more permanently. This agency is part of a collective that includes many well-known and trusted mission organizations that have missionaries working in every region where our ServeBeyond missionaries currently work. All five agencies in this collective are willing to partner with our missionaries should the missionary desire to continue their work with little interruption. We will be communicating with each affected missionary individually to plan out how we can assist them as they decide next steps.
What is next for individual supporters and churches who support our missionaries?
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PLEASE continue to support the missionaries and projects you love! Though the letterhead of the organization that is providing administration services will change, the vital ministry and work of each missionary will not change. The precious connections we have as individual supporters and as supporting churches with our missionaries also will not change! The Kingdom work in which each missionary has been involved will continue; their salaries and provision will also continue unimpeded provided the missionaries allow us to help them transition to another organization and their supporters remain faithfully committed. For those affected missionaries who choose to remain in ministry and to transition to another organization, after final receipts and expenses are dealt with, we intend to transfer the remainder of their project and personal account balances to the new agency. Our intention is to honour the conditions on which donations were made. Finally, we want to be clear that ServeBeyond continues to operate as our international mission arm. All non-salaried missionaries, partners and projects unaffected by these changes will continue to serve in their respective fields as before. Please pray that our God will minister His peace to our missionaries and ServeBeyond staff during this transition.
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