Planning a Missionary Presentation

If you are a missionary, there are four things a pastor and a church judges when you visit their church: your character, your message, your display, and your ministry presentation. Unless you are asked to preach, your slide/video presentation will be the most visible and the most highly judged opportunity you have to present yourself, your burden, and your ministry. The quality you put into your presentation is your representation to the pastor and the church of the effort and quality they can expect you put into your ministry.

The purpose of BIMI’s audiovisual department is to help missionaries serving through BIMI to assemble a presentation that is of high quality and concise at a very low cost. We do not make presentations for our missionaries although we are available to critique their script and we have a picture library to fill in when needed. We also provide the state-of-the-art tools needed to put their presentation together. However, we require our missionaries to write their own presentation script and to provide the needed pictures. Therefore, the finished result is truly the missionary’s own presentation.

Missionaries associated with BIMI should contact Jerry Dwire at the World Mission Center for details and to set up an appointment to put their presentation together. Please e-mail Jerry to request a Presentation Planning Guide or to answer any questions.

Missionaries planing a furlough should write their rough draft presentation script and e-mail it to Jerry about four months prior to arriving home on furlough to assure an opening for an appointment on their arrival.