As I go from place to place and speak about my mission to the Sinim, people sometimes comment that they are in awe of people who go overseas as missionaries. Some say they wanted to be a missionary when they were younger or hope to be one in the future, but they cannot be one now. Although it is true that not everyone is called to be a foreign missionary in the flesh, the amazing truth is that everyone can be a foreign missionary.

I like to think of them as invisible missionaries. What’s an invisible missionary? It’s the church member who faithfully gives $10 a month for their missionary in Cambodia. That member may never set foot in Southeast Asia, but their monthly $10 does. It may not seem like much, but for a missionary needing a tank of gas to drive up the mountains to do ministry, it makes a huge difference in winning souls.

The invisible missionary is the church member who prays without fail every morning at 5 a.m. for the Holy Spirit to lead and protect the missionary family in Algeria, even though they can’t see how their prayers open the hearts of neighbors or shield the missionaries from spiritual attacks. The invisible missionary sets up worship services in their home church to promote missions and to recruit more missionaries—either invisible or visible—to reach entire countries that don’t have even one Christian witness.

Invisible missionaries are people who engage in foreign missions by faith and not by sight. They may never learn another language, witness the spiritual warfare, travel the dusty roads, or meet the souls that are converted here on this earth, but they, too, commit their lives to overseas missions alongside the foreign missionary. They answer God’s call and faithfully put forth their prayers, finances and efforts, as if they themselves were physically among the unreached, laboring side-by-side with the missionaries.

If you haven’t yet, won’t you ask God how He is calling you to become an invisible missionary?

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