How do you relate to your church's mission partners?

Don’t get me wrong, every missionary is grateful for the financial support they receive from churches.

They’re also blessed by knowing that churches are praying for them from the moment they leave these shores until they return at some future point. In fact, I was just sharing with a church yesterday that when a missionary says they’re travelling from one place to another and would like people to pray, they really mean it. It isn’t a filler item in a list of prayer points; the journey probably involves dangerous, ice-covered or corrugated desert roads, or even the risk of hijacking.

But should supporting missionaries go deeper than giving money and praying?