Matching Strength to Send More Workers

Many churches across West Africa are eager to engage missions, and many workers are eager to give their all for the spread of the gospel. Yet they face a

significant barrier: the financial capacity to send workers. Today, over 30 workers from West Africa are mobilized but remain in the support raising phase.

How many more are coming down the pipeline who will join this group of mobilized yet unsent workers, and how many more may never apply due to the

long shadow of this financial obstacle? WAMO envisions a future where churches are no longer limited by these constraints. Through the Matching Strength to Send More Workers initiative, WAMO seeks to match a church’s missionary support contributions with externally sourced funds. Such a strategy will encourage churches to seize greater ownership of mission mobilization among their local donors. Even those with little to give can do more when supported by a trusted partner like SIM. Our aim is to double the number of missionaries sent from West Africa. A church that is able to support one missionary on its own will, through this initiative, now be able to send two.

How It Works

Donor Matching: Individuals, churches, or organizations within SIM’s networks are identified to match funds raised by West African churches in a 1:1 ratio (Aug 2025–Jul 2030). WAMO will sustain this engagement in an ongoing way.

Church Engagement: Churches are freshly sensitized and invited to raise local support, confident in the knowledge that WAMO will match it (ongoing).

Mobilization Events: The project will be presented annually at Mission Breakfast and Engage West Africa (every July and November).

Oversight: A committee will review applications and determine project beneficiaries annually.

Why Matching Strength?

This initiative will increase the sending power of the West African Church by:

1. Inspiring Local Church Support: Churches are encouraged to mobilize financial support from within. Some churches that assume fundraising is impossible may now make efforts in light of this partnership. The very presence of a partner can embolden a church to approach potential local donors, knowing they are validated and affirmed by SIM standing behind them. Bonds of trust begin to form. Just to be able to showcase to their donors the trust of other donors standing ready to match 100% of their gifts will validate and inspire reluctant and skeptical churches and donors. Matching

Strength is not just about the tangible financial gift, it is also about the intangible gift of trust and relationship that could transform a church’s perspective and priorities about missions.

2. Doubling the Impact: Matching contributions will both flatten mountains and raise new missionaries. Those who are called and qualified will no longer linger in the starting blocks but can be released to become the hands and feet of Jesus where He is least known.

3. Strategic Church Partnership: By capitalizing on trusted events like

Engage West Africa Training and the Mission Breakfast, WAMO will inform and equip churches towards greater achievements in identifying, supporting, and sending missionaries. Generosity inspires generosity, and this project ensures each donor that their gift will go twice as far because of another donor.

Invitation

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The call to West African churches and leaders is this: We possess the strength of conviction. We perceive a ready workforce among us. Let us not be held back by limited resources. WAMO invites your participation by identifying churches that:

Are passionate about missions and ready to take responsibility for sending.

Are able to raise partial or full financial support for at least one missionary.

Are open to partnering with WAMO in sending more laborers into the field.

Looking Ahead

One of the strongest horses in the world is a Belgian draft horse. Alone, it can pull up to 7000 pounds (3,175 kilos). However, if two of these draft horses are yoked together, they can pull not 14000 lbs, but 22,000! Furthermore, when two have been trained together over time, the pair has been known to pull 32,000 pounds – fully double the weight of one alone.

This is the kingdom math we anticipate from the Matching Strength initiative.

We say that the two donors will match 1:1; however, the amount of 1 will be greater than before just because of the presence of another donor. And while we are practicing this partnership, collaborations and strengthening will appear in many areas apart from funding. WAMO is committed to doing everything possible to ensure the long-term sustainability of this project by strengthening trust, building new partnerships, and mobilizing the Church in West Africa to send more workers into the global harvest.

Will you participate with us?

Click here to view a SWAY presentation about the Matching Strength initiative; feel free to share it with your church partners and others who may be interested!

Robby is headed back to Liberia next week from 10 July – 7 August; we really appreciate all of the time he is putting into supporting the team in Liberia as they continue to work through the financial crisis at the hospital. Continue to keep them all in your prayers.