How much does it cost to be a participant in the work of missions?

 I met a brother in Bolivia who God had put in his heart to take the gospel to the small towns among the Andes Mountains of Bolivia. He worked at a small school as a teacher and made the decision to leave his job to fulfill his calling. That man started selling small products at fairs to support himself and have more time to take the gospel to the people.

When I met that man he was very happy, because with the little money he had he also bought the evangelistic materials to reach the people with the written Word. My question is: How much does it cost to get involved in God's work?

I know a doctor in Brazil who, with his own money, pays for the freight of boxes with evangelistic materials to send to the evangelists. He is not a member of any institution, he is not deducted from his tax, he earns nothing by doing this work, but he does it because God has called him to it. How much is it worth doing missions?

My wife worked at a computer company in Tokyo, Japan. She had a good salary, lived in an apartment in a fairly good neighborhood, and lived her normal life. One day the Lord Jesus called her to do missions, but what was the cost of answering God's call? Well, she left everything, came to Paraguay and went to work in indigenous communities, sleeping in tents and bathing in streams.

"Neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing" (2 Samuel 24:24) These were the words of God when I wanted to sacrifice to the Lord and to do God's work is an offering that we present to God. But how much is it worth to be a part of God's work? Or are we involved because we get something in return?

A few days ago I received a message from a church wanting to send an "offering" for the work we do. But right now we are without a ministry account in the United States to receive the offerings. The means we have is still Paypal or Western Union

Well, I was advised that they couldn't send their participating offer, as sending it directly wouldn't deduct it from their taxes. They may have other goals in terms of accountability to the government, but sending offers to missions thinking about discounting taxes is the same as wanting to do missions expecting the government to pay

How much does it cost you to do missions?