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:
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Address:______
Phone #:______Email:______
Website:______Anniversary:______
Home Church:______
Address:______
Phone #:______Email:______
Website:______Pastor:______
Sending Church or mission board:______
Address:______
Phone #:______Email:______
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______
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