The Cost of Indigenous Missionary Work

Encouraging indigenous missionaries is significantly more impactful than sending missionaries from other countries./nThe cost of sending a family to India for a year is around $100,000, while funding an indigenous church planter costs only around $1,000 to a couple thousand dollars./nThe impact of indigenous missionaries can be at least 10x, and possibly 100x, greater than that of missionaries from other countries./nThe calculation of the difference in impact is likely an underestimate, as indigenous church planters may lead five to ten times more people to faith compared to missionaries from other countries.