Missions Questionnaire Our church desires to spread the gospel to the world. We desire to use our mission offerings to accomplish this in a Scriptural way. We want to support ministries & servants of God whose doctrinal position is in line with ours. We want to help establish churches of like faith and practice. To insure that, we are asking each prospective missionary to fill out this questionnaire. All questions applicable must be answered in order to be consider for support. Feel free to use a blank sheet of paper for any expanded answers and please number them. Name: Date of Birth: Spouse: Date of Birth: Children s Name and Date of Birth: Website: Anniversary: Home Church: Website: Pastor: Sending Church or mission board: Website: Pastor:
PERSONAL INFORMATION 1. Please share your testimony of salvation. Please list as close as you can the date. 2. Please share your spouse s testimony of salvation. Please list as close as you can the date. 3. Please explain how a person is saved and outline how you would lead someone to salvation. 4. If you and your spouse have been baptized please list the date(s), location(s), and methods(s) used. 5. Have you or your spouse ever been married before? If yes, explain. (This will not necessarily disqualify you from being considered for support. But we do need to know.) 6. Do you, your spouse, or your children go mixed swimming? 7. Does anyone in your family wear shorts above the knee in public? Do females wear pants or slacks? Skirts or dresses that are low cut/above the knee?
8. Does anyone in your family approve of or participate in body piercings, tattoos or other bodily disfigurement? 9. Does anyone in your family listen to the worlds music? (rock, heavy metal, rap, country, ect.) 10. Do you, your spouse, or your children listen to or approve of Contemporary Christian music? 11. Does anyone in your family use tobacco? 12. Does anyone in your family drink alcoholic beverages? 13. Does anyone in your family use drugs of any type? If so please explain. 14. Is there any major health concerns in your family that we as a supporting church would need to be aware of? 15. Are you and your spouse regular and faithful in visitation and witnessing to the lost? 16. Where did you receive your Bible training? How long? Did you graduate? 17. Do you consider your spouse and children to be in subjection to you as the spiritual leader and head of your home? 18. Should you change your basic stand on doctrinal issues, would you notify your supporting churches of such a change? 19. Should your moral, financial, family, or other issues disqualify you from your ministry, would you voluntarily step out of your ministry? CHURCH RELATIONSHIP 1. Has your sending church voted to send you as a missionary under their authority? 2. How long have you been a member of your sending church? 3. What positions of service have you been active in your home church? 4. How much money does your sending church give to you each month? 5. What is your average support monthly? 6. What is your monthly support goal? 7. Do you tithe and give regular mission offerings?
8. Do you plan to pastor the church you start? 9. Under what circumstances would you change your sending church? 10. Will your sending church discipline you if you fall into immorality or change your doctrinal position? 11. Will all of your financial support be handled by your sending church? 12. Are you in agreement with your sponsoring church's doctrines and practices? 13. Will you send regular prayer letters to us? DOCTRINAL 1. Do you believe in the Divine Trinity? 2. Do you believe in the eternal pre-existence of Christ? 3. Do you believe in the Virgin birth of the Christ? 4. Do you believe in the substitutionary death of Christ? 5. Do you believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ? 6. Can a saved person lose his or her salvation? 7. Do you believe in the theory of evolution? 8. Do you believe in theistic evolution? 9. What do you believe missions to be? 10. Do you believe the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into a universal body? 11. Do you believe that the New Testament Church is: local universal or both local and universal 12. Do you believe that baptism today is by: water Holy Spirit or both 13. Do you believe that only local New Testament Baptist churches have scriptural authority to baptize? 14. Do you believe the drink for the Lord's Supper is: Fermented Wine Grape juice 15. Do you believe that the Lord's Supper should be: Open Communion with all professing Christians? Those in doctrinal agreement? Local church members only? 16. Which version(s) of the scriptures do you use? Please explain why.
17. Is the gift of tongues for today? please explain. 18. Do you support, participate in, or approve of Promise Keepers? 19. Are you: Premillennium Postmillennium Amillennium 20. Do you believe the rapture occurs: Pretribulation Midtribulation Postribulation Use the space below for additional comments: