Apoyo a los trabajadores
Una Palabra de Paul Greer a las Iglesias
10% Tarifa del trabajador
En enero de 2023 se anunció la adición de una tarifa de trabajador del 10% a nuestros trabajadores de FMI, iglesias de EE. UU. y socios misioneros. El propósito general de la tarifa es proporcionar mayores niveles de apoyo a nuestros trabajadores de FMI en un mundo cada vez más complejo y ampliar la capacidad de FMI para enviar nuevos trabajadores al campo. Si bien la adición de la tarifa se anunció a principios de 2023, la Junta Cuadrangular retrasó la implementación hasta enero de 2025, dando a nuestros trabajadores nuevos y existentes 2 años para recaudar los fondos adicionales.
Cartas Enviadas a los Obreros + Iglesias
Letter to Workers
Dear Faithful FMI Workers,
First, I want to thank you for your faithfulness and dedicated work. The world has changed a lot in the past few years, and you have rolled with the punches—looking to the Author and Perfector of our faith for wisdom and discernment as you pivoted. You have stayed true to your ministry of bringing the Good News to those who need His love and pursuing the greatest cause of them all: the mission of God, to redeem humankind for eternity. As a third-culture kid, FMI missionary and worker for most of my life, and now as director of the missions organization we all partner with to answer the call of God on the field, I could not be more proud of you.
As I prepare to share some big upcoming changes with you, I want you to know: I know what it’s like to be an FMI worker. And even now positioned in U.S., I try my best to represent you—as is your Worker Care team, led so well by Kihā and Joyce.
Over the years with Foursquare, I have seen many changes rolled out. Changes will happen, and changes will stop; how we respond and adjust make all the difference. I recognize we all have feelings and opinions on this. Some changes have been simple; other shifts have been difficult. What I am reminded of is that as these changes happen, let’s be reminded that our God-given calling isn’t changing; to serve Him and follow Him with our whole heart. To shine brightly, as the light of the world to glorify our Father in heaven, while we do everything for Him.
Historically, Foursquare Missions International (FMI) was a missions organization that had a central fund, with a stringent application process for workers who were required to have senior pastor experience. We celebrate the fruit from that era, but recognize we are in a new time. We have fully entered the season of workers who do their own support-raising for some time now. Meanwhile, we at FMI continue to seek how we best steward resources and serve you well.
Today, the world is changing quickly and becoming more complex. To best serve as the world changes, we all have to work hard at adjusting, tweaking, adapting, and contextualizing to the current space in which we find ourselves. That is what great gospel workers do.
Our mission remains the same: to make disciples of all nations (ethne). To impact eternity. To build disciple-making, church-planting movements that would mature, become self-reproducing and multiplying, and reach a point of healthy, interdependent partnerships across the nations. The vision is that all nations will become cross-cultural senders of workers of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
While the mission stays the same, the adjustment comes with how we do this—how we fund it, and how we structure ourselves as a missions organization.
This is all said to set the table for us to come together—for a new change in FMI in how we train, deploy, care for, and process all the pieces it takes to keep you on the field and in your assignment.
Today, I want to walk with you through the specifics of this change as we navigate new paradigms that will help us find our way forward, together on mission.
At this time, we are bringing forward the announcement of a 10% worker fee. This means FMI will begin requiring ten percent of what each worker (family or individual) fundraises. This includes projects, too.
For quick perspective, ten percent is actually below the average of what is commonly required by workers in most missions organizations. We believe this amount will allow us all to best move forward while also considering the impact it has on you as one of our workers.
Implementation will look like this:
- For FMI workers already on the field, the 10% worker fee added to budgets will begin in January 2025. We recognize this increase in support raising can take time, and we wanted to give you two years to make up the 10% difference in support raising.
During this two-year period, FMI commits to coming alongside our current workers to help make up the difference.
We at FMI commit to:
- Continue to offer updated support-raising training and coaching to those who want it.
- Explain to all donors (including churches, all credentialed ministers, and individual donors) the changes and ask for them to consider increasing their giving by at least 10%. (You can see the letter from me here, as well as watch a video)
Why the changes? Is this really necessary?
You can find more in-depth details here and are welcome to discuss it with our team. But first, let me outline some key reasons for this shift at this time.
- FMI seeks to become sustainable and scalable, in our worker training, care and structure in how we continue to send more and growing workers on mission together.
- With economic inflation, budget cuts, and even more extension tithe dollars going back to U.S. local churches, we have to face our own realities while continuing to move forward with a focus for our part on the mission of God around the world.
- Costs continue to rise. This includes the cost of things we have previously provided free of charge, such as financial processing, sending funds, legal issues, donors’ credit card fees, security, worker care amid trauma and emergencies, security and more. As costs increase and our budget decreases, it has become clear we cannot maintain or scale without a shift.
- All of Foursquare is committed to offering some of the best donor fundraising platforms and management systems for you that exist in the market today. These are currently being implemented to help you, and we expect you will see increased donations as you utilize it based on new coaching we provide. But they do have a cost. We believe the excellence you experience will be worth it.
- Good stewardship matters. The fee will allow all our current service to continue while allowing for new things to happen, including more and growing missions workers sent worldwide.
As you process this shift, I would like you to invite you to consider:
- Would you be willing to reach out if you’d like to discuss this more in person? We are here to answer your questions. Let us know what they are. We are in this together, and we want to walk with you.
- Would you prayerfully consider financially supporting fellow FMI workers? While I don’t know your personal tithing and giving practices, I can say my wife Carina and I did this while we were Foursquare missionaries in Papua New Guinea. We saw it as a way to sow into parts of the world where we could not be present, but knew people who were faithful there. We loved it, and it helped grow our own friendships with fellow FMI workers.
I know a change like this may be challenging. We are praying with you, contending God will work provision miracles that will be part of your story.
On behalf of all of us here at Foursquare Missions, we appreciate your grace as we navigate these changes.
Together on mission,
Paul Greer
Director, Foursquare Missions International
Letter to Churches + Supporters
Dear Pastors, Churches and Missions Givers,
I want to continue to communicate about this important update with you, regarding changes to how our missionary workers are funded. As we continue to support them, we invite you to consider your involvement.
First, though, I’d like to say thank you for your partnership with missions around the world. Whether you support Foursquare Missions through the Global Missions Fund, our workers and projects, our efforts through Foursquare Disaster Relief or Foursquare Missions Press, we are thankful to see vital missional action for the greatest cause of all: the mission of God, to redeem humankind for eternity.
In missions, we never stop exploring how we can further the mission of God. Our own missiology includes always searching for how we can become more reproducing and self-sustaining, as we make disciples of all nations who become leaders, plant churches, and become sustainable missionary-sending movements.
In recent years, we have continued to improve our services, both to our Foursquare churches and our Foursquare Missions International (FMI) workers who serve all over the world. We have invested in sustainable infrastructure, to create donor-centric giving platforms for our workers to fundraise support and manage the funds for their ministry field assignments. We are providing better systems and great services to best prepare, train, deploy, and care for our workers on the field. These improvements are good and necessary, but also take more resourcing.
While we celebrate global growth, we also recognize that FMI operations for global mission today have been impacted by the extension tithe going back to local churches for missional activity. As such, we have processed in depth with The Foursquare Church’s leadership and its board of directors. While we see great benefit for mission across the U.S.,we also collectively have acknowledged the pressures and unique challenge this is for global mission.
While we face this, there also remains cause for great hope and opportunity for growth. We want to continue to provide our current services and allow FMI to become a more scalable organization with increased capacity to send, care for and resource more workers going to the harvest field—as The Foursquare Church grows globally and the Spirit continues to call people to go. It allows us all to be on mission together. It allows us to reach the unreached, those who have never heard the name of Jesus. It allows us to equip the next generation and creates a pathway for more workers to go and fulfill the Great Commission. I say all this to set the table, to give you a picture of the realities we face, as I invite you to this conversation today.
Now, with the deliberation of The Foursquare Church’s board of directors and their strategic review of FMI’s operations and processes of fellow missions agencies, Foursquare has come to a decision.
Starting in January 2025, FMI will implement a 10% worker fee. This means FMI will charge ten percent of what each worker (family or individual) fundraises. This fee not only impacts our FMI workers, but also their project giving. This ten percent will go toward a fruitful mission as we continue to provide great services, care and support to FMI workers.
This 10% worker fee helps with many things, such as:
- improved support-raising platforms for FMI workers
- ongoing training for those already on the field
- new worker deployments
- worker gatherings and retreats for soul care, community-building, and equipping
- financial processing, donor credit card fees, and donor stewardship
- best financial administration practices
- worker care amid trauma and emergencies
- excellent security and much more
Good management matters. Good stewardship matters.
- The fee will allow all current services to continue.
- It allows for more and growing workers to be sent on mission worldwide.
- It allows for more expansion, partnership, and planting of gospel-centric, discipleship-focused efforts around the world.
For context, a worker fee, like this, is common practice among most missionary-sending organizations based in the U.S. In fact, ten percent is below the average of what is commonly required. But after much prayer and strategic discussions, we believe this amount will allow us to best move forward while also considering the impact on our workers worldwide, even though it does not cover all our costs. Also, we would like to emphasize the value of continuing to route all financial support through a sending agency, like FMI. When support is given directly by local churches or individual donors to workers in the field, it can jeopardize security and tax exemption requirements. Foursquare ensures your support is sent safely.
Here is my request from you. Let’s not allow our global ministries to be negatively impacted by this change. Would you please prayerfully consider increasing your global missions giving by at least 10% to Foursquare workers, as well as FMI projects, and FMI’s Global Mission Fund? Would you be part of helping us to fulfill the Great Commission, to go to the unreached, to provide quality training, care and resourcing for those who faithfully give it all for the gospel?
We believe the systems, training, and infrastructure we have built sets the table for us to become more scalable in increasing our capacity to send and support more and growing FMI workers on mission together. Will you give to help spur on the work of spreading the gospel cross-culturally to the ends of the earth? Will you let our missions workers know you are with them in this commitment?
Thank you for your consideration as a valuable part of our extended team that sends the Good News as a light throughout the world. Thank you for being on mission with us. Together on mission,
Paul Greer
Director, Foursquare Missions International
Tarifa del trabajador – Preguntas frecuentes
No. Las donaciones misioneras se han mantenido constantes. Sin embargo, los costos asociados con la administración, el despliegue, la atención y el aumento de los trabajadores en el campo han aumentado. También queremos seguir mejorando nuestros servicios y atención, y la cuota del trabajador nos lo permite.
No, no es así. Simplemente compensa parte del costo de capacitar, desplegar y mantener a los trabajadores de FMI en el campo. También ayuda a compensar parte de los costes de:
- El equipo de Servicios de Apoyo de Campo recientemente desarrollado: empleados que sirven a nuestros trabajadores y donantes en la gestión financiera, el desarrollo tecnológico y el soporte.
- Las tarifas asociadas con nuestra nueva página y plataforma de donaciones (Classy), sistemas, software, tarifas bancarias, tarifas de transferencia y tarifas de tarjetas de crédito.
- Garantizar que todo el dinero enviado a nivel mundial se distribuya legalmente y cumpla con las complicadas leyes internacionales contra el terrorismo.
- Capacitación, despliegue y atención (TDC, por sus siglas en inglés): Nuestro equipo de TDC brinda capacitación, asesoramiento, coaching, recursos y apoyo continuos para situaciones de emergencia y relacionadas con el trauma.
- Tenga en cuenta que la tarifa del trabajador ni siquiera cubriría 1/3 de los elementos anteriores. FMI y la Iglesia Cuadrangular continúan siendo generosos con nuestros trabajadores.
- Cada iglesia, ministerio, organización y negocio tiene costos asociados con ellos. Si bien a los pastores les encanta ver que el 100% de los fondos de la iglesia se inviertan únicamente en el discipulado y el alcance o para aumentar el personal, la realidad es que los costos generales (hipoteca, seguro, servicios públicos, etc.) constituyen una parte significativa de un presupuesto. Estos costos conducen a un porcentaje menor de los fondos que van directamente a los esfuerzos del ministerio. Del mismo modo, hay un costo para capacitar, enviar y cuidar a los trabajadores de FMI. La Iglesia Cuadrangular nos ha bendecido ya que han cubierto todos estos costos durante muchos años. Foursquare y FMI no están pidiendo a los trabajadores que paguen por todo, sino que se asocien con nosotros en nuestra misión.
- El FMI se financia parcialmente con el presupuesto de Causa Compartida (alrededor del 25% del total). Esta cantidad puede fluctuar en función del diezmo de la iglesia y de las demás necesidades del equipo de la Causa (misión compartida, distritos, multiplicar, NextGen). La Tarifa del Trabajador aporta estabilidad y consistencia para cubrir algunos de los costos de capacitación y envío de trabajadores de FMI.
- El objetivo final es administrar bien los recursos del Señor, para que la obra de la Gran Comisión haya terminado.
- Además de su propia recaudación de fondos (FMI recauda más del 79% de su presupuesto total), FMI ha pasado por varias fases a lo largo de los años (diezmo del diezmo, contribución de dotación y, actualmente, el presupuesto de causa compartida)
- Los trabajadores de FMI, FDR y FMP recaudan sus propios fondos.

- A pesar del impacto del retorno del diezmo en los presupuestos operativos, FMI desea ser una organización de envío de misiones escalable y en mejora/crecimiento, lista para servir al Señor y hacer nuestra parte para terminar la Gran Comisión. Dios está respondiendo a nuestra oración por más obreros (Mateo 9:38) ya que hemos visto un aumento en las personas que responden a Su llamado a Ir. Este aumento de los trabajadores del FMI se traduce en un aumento de los costes, y nuestra estructura actual no puede sostener el crecimiento futuro. La tarifa del trabajador es una parte de una solución para ser más ágil y eficaz en el envío y apoyo a los trabajadores del FMI para compartir el Evangelio.
- Un propósito de la devolución del diezmo es aumentar el compromiso misionero a nivel de la iglesia local. Esto significa que el costo y la responsabilidad de la misión se votaron de tal manera que la propiedad de la misión se desplaza más hacia las iglesias locales. Las iglesias que donan al Fondo Misionero Mundial y a los obreros de FMI ayudan a apoyar el trabajo de campo y ayudan a asociarse y asumir esa responsabilidad misional. El presupuesto general de Foursquare y lo que puede pagar y hacer se ve afectado por el retorno del diezmo, que a su vez afecta el presupuesto de causa compartida, a su vez impacta el presupuesto general de FMI.
¡Absolutamente! Por favor, hazlo.
- Continuamos con la visión de las Escrituras de «hacer discípulos a todas las naciones». Creemos que nuestra identidad y misión compartidas ponen en primer plano nuestra expresión única del Reino. Los valores de nuestros comienzos, nuestras piedras angulares, nuestros distintivos globales, nuestra postura sobre las mujeres en el liderazgo ministerial (WIML) y nuestro ethos pentecostal y nuestro enfoque misionológico son los que continúan distinguiéndonos dentro del cuerpo de Cristo.
- Continuamos abriendo naciones y alcanzando a los no alcanzados. Con este aumento de la fuerza misionera y la asociación mundial de la iglesia, ¡estamos siendo más eficaces que nunca!
- Hace más de 15 años se implementaron cambios que trasladaron la responsabilidad de la recaudación de fondos y el apoyo al trabajador.
- Nuestros Directores Asociados Globales (GAD) siguen siendo remunerados a través del Fondo de Misiones Globales, que también apoya proyectos e iniciativas asociados con regiones globales y movimientos nacionales. Esto es vital para el apoyo general de nuestra Iglesia Global y las obras nacionales en todo el mundo a través de las cuales se envía a nuestros misioneros.
- Los Coordinadores Regionales (excepto aquellos que tienen múltiples roles) recaudan su propio apoyo mientras se asocian con los GADs para servir a las naciones y regiones y coordinan el compromiso y la asociación global de los EE. UU.
- Las iglesias individuales o los donantes generalmente no están al tanto de la miríada de leyes y regulaciones que gobiernan las actividades ministeriales globales. Existen requisitos esenciales de supervisión y documentación que deben cumplirse para que los trabajadores de campo compartan la exención de impuestos grupales de la denominación y cumplan con las leyes de compensación. El incumplimiento de estas reglas puede poner en peligro al trabajador, a la iglesia que envía y a la denominación. La Iglesia Cuadrangular ha desarrollado la experiencia y la infraestructura para asegurar que estos requisitos sean seguidos y que los fondos sean bien administrados. Para obtener más información sobre los requisitos de supervisión para las actividades del ministerio global, consulte los artículos a continuación:
- La junta Cuadrangular gobierna y administra todo el dinero de la Cuadrangular. FMI no tiene autoridad ni acceso a esos fondos más allá de hacer propuestas o solicitudes especiales de la Junta Directiva.
- Recibimos comentarios de un grupo de nuestros trabajadores, y no pensaban que la cuota debería llamarse diezmo. Cada obrero tiene diferentes estructuras de diezmo. Algunos diezman a su iglesia de envío, otros a la nación en la que viven, etc. Si quisieran contar la cuota como su diezmo o como parte de su ofrenda, eso es entre ellos y el Señor, y FMI no tiene ningún problema con eso.
- El comité de misiones investigó y evaluó la necesidad de una tarifa de trabajador en 2019, y el comité hizo una propuesta a la junta directiva que fue aprobada. Se determinó que una vez que nuestros servicios, finanzas y plataformas de donaciones sirvieran bien a nuestros trabajadores, se implementaría la tarifa. Eso es parte del proceso HUB 2.0. Nos esforzamos por preparar a nuestros trabajadores para que sean fructíferos a largo plazo y brindarles los mejores servicios posibles.
- Esta fue una decisión generosa tomada por el liderazgo Cuadrangular que da tiempo para descubrir formas de cubrir los costos del ministerio (dando plataforma, reclutamiento, capacitación, despliegue, cuidado, etc.) y para dar tiempo a todos los trabajadores de FMI para recaudar apoyo adicional para compensar la diferencia. Muchos trabajadores regresan a los EE. UU. para recaudar apoyo y visitar a sus parejas cada 2 o 3 años. Con suerte, esto les dará una ventana para una de esas visitas para recaudar cualquier apoyo adicional necesario para la tarifa del trabajador, la inflación u otras oportunidades ministeriales.
Apoye a un trabajador de FMI
Misiones Cuadrangulares Internacionales tiene poco más de 300 misioneros y obreros sirviendo en todo el mundo, incluyendo familias con niños, parejas e individuos. ¿Conoce a algún misionero específico que ya esté en el campo? Da directamente a ellos o a otros misioneros aquí.