Q: Can I designate my donation to a specific country or pastor?
A: If you choose to make a donation, your support is added to the other gifts we receive. Our board then divides the donations and sends them to each country, according to a strategic plan. We do this for 2 reasons:

1. We determine the salary range for a pastor based on his local economy. If we give a church planter so much salary that he is compensated far above his flock, the church members will never be able to support him. Also, it is important that the pastor not live above his congregation.

2. Our goal is to develop new church planters each year. Therefore, we need the flexibility to financially support those countries and communities that are ripe for new church plants. Our decisions are research-based; our desire is to cultivate prime opportunities to spread the Gospel.

Q: How can I connect with a pastor if I can’t designate my financial gifts?
A: Pray! We have “Prayer Facts” for the countries and churches we support; they will give you the specific needs, struggles and celebrations about which you can pray.

Q: How should I explain White Fields to others?
A: Here is a quick overview of our organization:

• We have committees around the world who have years of experience in church planting and are looking for opportunities to plant new churches.

• These committees choose local men—believers—who are trained and ready to plant a church among their own people.

• Once approved, these national church planters are given a locally-appropriate, full-time salary for one year. We decrease the salary by 25% each following year, allowing the church to gradually rise up and begin supporting its own pastor.

• We usually end the pastor’s financial support in 4 or 5 years, depending upon the needs of that country. At this point, in many cases, the church is able to support a leader from within to go and plant another church in a nearby neighborhood.

Q: Do you require donors to make a 4-year commitment?
A: We do not require any commitment. Your donations are strictly between you and the Lord.

Q: If donors give whatever they can, whenever they want, how do you develop a budget?
A: We are like any other faith mission. We have a track record of how much donors tend to give. So we analyze our records, pray and trust the Lord. We keep a strong reserve in savings so that if there were an economic downturn, and giving decreased, we could sustain the men to whom we have made a commitment.

Q: How can I give?
A: Some people send checks; others enjoy the ease of giving online. You can also fill-out the recurring giving form available on our website and we will automatically withdraw the money from your credit card or checking account. Even if you begin a recurring gifting program, you may send notice to stop the monthly deductions at any time.

Q: Do White Fields national pastors know who the North American supporters are?
A: We have a policy that the church planters are not to make any contact with North American supporters, to prevent men from asking for more money. It is a protection for both the pastor and the supporter. So you have anonymity, although the Lord knows of your gifts!

Q: Are you members of a financial accountability organization?
A: We are members of Cross Global Link which is an organization that works specifically with missionary agencies and reviews annual audits.

Q: Are all the pastors listed on your prayer link supported?
A: Yes. As more donors give, we expand the number of men we are able to support. In 2007, we increased the number of new church planters by 54 over the previous year because we had grown in the support we received during 2006.

Q: Do you have men waiting for support?
A: Yes. Our board makes a commitment to support our men for their entire term of planting the church, so we exercise careful stewardship to make sure we have the resources to support them for the full four years until their church is established.

Q: What is S.T.E.P.?
A: It’s a new training program taking place in the Philippines. It stands for Supplemental Training in Expository Preaching. It’s a curriculum to help the men improve their preaching skills. Through the program, we are also providing a library so that they will have the books necessary to study the Bible and present biblically-grounded sermons to their congregations.

White Fields Missionary Society(CA), White Fields Inc. (USA) Founded 1955

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