{"id":2201,"date":"2010-07-11T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatallmayknow.org\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2017-05-12T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:29:34","slug":"the-cot-of-miion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/2010\/07\/11\/the-cot-of-miion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Co$t of Mi$$ion$"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So, in order to do this job of taking the precious message of the gospel to those who have never heard, we have to raise support.\u00a0 Unfortunately most majority world countries don\u2019t have super applicable job positions for us expatriates, not to mention the fact that if we were to work another job (aside from what we are there to do) it would take us MUCH longer to accomplish our ministry goals.\u00a0 Maybe this is obvious-maybe not.<\/p>\n

Anyway, often people are confused as to why doing this job costs so much money to do.\u00a0 (After all, it\u2019s not like we have malls and restaurants to waste money at in the middle of the jungle!)\u00a0 So where does all the money go? Instead of giving you our usual short answer, we thought we would offer a bit more of the reasons why.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>First of all, NTM missionaries are required to raise 100% of their own support. \u00a0Thankfully, 100% of all contributions which are given to our ministry go directly to us (no mission organization overhead), with the exception of a small credit card fee, should donors use credit cards to donate.<\/p>\n

Now, on to our budget breakdown!<\/p>\n

The following expenses are just a few of the things we need to pay for monthly:<\/p>\n