{"id":2049,"date":"2013-04-27T03:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2013-04-27T03:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T03:44:42","slug":"yokefellow-ministry-connecting-you-members-with-your-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Yokefellow Ministry – Connecting your Members with your Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever wondered how you can connect your members better with the missionaries that the church supports. Well here is a great ministry that I recently learned about from some great friends of mine at\u00a0Vision Baptist Church<\/a> in Alpharetta GA. It is called the Yokefellow Ministry and has the goal to partner church members with the missionaries that the church sends out to be able to meet their physical, financial and spiritual needs.<\/p>\n

WHAT IS A YOKEFELLOW?<\/h4>\n

The name \u201cyokefellow\u201d comes from the reference in Philippians 4:3 and speaks of someone who is in the work with you, a person who is pulling the same load you are. Epaphroditus, Silas, Timothy and Barnabas were all yokefellows of Paul. They were fellow laborers.<\/p>\n

Barnabas illustrates a true yokefellow as described in Acts 9:27; 11:22-26. His name literally means \u201cSon of Consolation\u201d It was Barnabas who was Paul\u2019s advocate before the church after Paul\u2019s conversion. He was a partner in ministry. He was also John Mark\u2019s advocate when Paul wanted to leave him behind. (Acts 15:37-39) Barnabas was the kind of partner in ministry that everyone would want on their team.<\/p>\n

A Yokefellow Team is a small group (six-twelve) of committed people who come together to care for their missionary in a variety of ways, striving to help meet their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. It is a group of people with whom the missionary can be open and honest, allowing them to see his needs, and share his successes and defeats.<\/p>\n

WHY HAVE A YOKEFELLOW TEAM?<\/h4>\n

Because Yokefellow Teams help to make our missionaries feel cared for and understood, and by providing them with a committed group of people who will be in prayer for them regularly, showing them practical love, helping to keep them visible before the rest of the Vision family and strengthened on the mission field.<\/p>\n

WHAT DOES A YOKEFELLOW TEAM DO?<\/h4>\n

In a nutshell, a Yokefellow Team works together to care for their missionary, striving to meet their spiritual, physical and emotional needs. To a large extent this will happen only to the degree that the missionary is willing and able to make his needs known to the team.<\/p>\n

The specific ways in which a Yokefellow Team goes about meeting their missionaries\u2019 needs will vary depending on the specific personality and needs of the missionary, as well as the personality of the support team. Ask your missionary how you can best assist him; learn from the example of other teams; be creative; pray about it. This doesn\u2019t mean that the Yokefellow Team does everything but they do take personal responsibility to serve as that missionary\u2019s advocate at Vision.<\/p>\n

Click here for more information about the Yokefellow Ministry at Vision Baptist<\/a><\/p>\n

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Have you ever wondered how you can connect your members better with the missionaries that the church supports. Well here is a great ministry that I recently learned about from some great friends of mine at\u00a0Vision Baptist Church in Alpharetta GA. It is called the Yokefellow Ministry and has the goal to partner church members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JaXV-x3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}