Springfield, MO, May 3, 2010 – Missions Linked; a missions-centric design agency that helps missionaries stay connected with donors and supporters, just completed its 5th year of providing resources for missionaries serving around the world, marketing manager Brianna Fleming announced today.

Missions Linked launched in 2005 when co-owners Jason Nill and Aaron Van Gorp had a vision to supply the tools missionaries need to stay connected with financial supporters and prayer partners. Nill and Van Gorp grew up overseas; Spain/Ecuador and Belgium respectively, as missionary kids and had an unique first-hand perspective seeing the need for ministry focused resources for missionaries. They were very involved in their families fundraising efforts and helped out in preparing the monthly newsletters, stuffing and licking envelopes, posing for prayer card pictures, and traveling to church services most weekends during furlough. After graduating from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, they began to implement their concept to fill the need that first caught their attention living abroad.

Today, Missions Linked provides a wide assortment of tools and services; including materials such as prayer cards, stationery, newsletters, displays, websites, blogs, e-newsletters, and promotional videos. Basically, anything a missionary may need to build a support base and raise awareness.

“It was important for us from the beginning to create a cohesive approach that was both simple and budget conscious for our clients.” says Jason Nill, co-founder of Missions Linked. “This is why we chose the all-inclusive pricing model for missionaries as opposed to the practices of most print companies and design agencies.”

Five years ago, Missions Linked was simply an idea between college friends, now it is serving more than 320 missionaries and organizations all around the world. Nill and Van Gorp feel that the company is only in the infant stages and has the possibility to grow exponentially in this market. Missions Linked is continuing to partner with sending agencies and missions organizations resourcing their missionaries with support building and communication tools.  Over the next 12-18 months they will continue expansion of their organization by joining alongside denominations and agencies to train, consult, and share insight from their experiences. Nill and Van Gorp are excited that their passion for missions and design will continue to help missionaries in a much needed market.

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Would you leave all and go to the mission field by faith alone? Is this really what the Bible teaches about how missionaries should be financially and spiritually supported? Should churches, friends, and family send their missionaries off to the “field” without being sure they have adequate support? Should mission agencies encourage new recruits who do not have established financial and spiritual backing? Does the Bible teach missionaries to live on the promises of God and not be concerned for physical and financial needs? Or, does God have a plan for those He calls and sends out to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth? If so, what is the plan?

In this book, Dr. Johnson shows that God laid down the plan and the principles for missionary support in the Old Testament. He demonstrates from Scripture how The Lord Jesus and the apostle Paul picked up on this plan and those principles from personal experience and through their teaching. The author provides biblically based, practical suggestions on how to develop, with the help of friends and churches, a missionary sending team. The author has received many comments from participants in seminars and consulting, comments such as these: “Going through this workshop was the turning point for me.” “Everyone in this organization should have this training. Where have you been?” “The workshop transformed my whole outlook. I can go forward now with the confidence this is God’s way.”

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And now that you’ve been given the ‘official nod’, we invite you to partner with us for all of your promotional and fundraising needs; including prayer cards, flyers, promotional displays, videos or blogsites. Safe travels during your itineration and we look forward to partnering with you to ‘help you tell your story’.

The Missions Linked team.