5. I delete your emails if they are longer than one screen.

4. I can't find my turnaround slip to give my next gift

3. I don't care about what you did on your family vacation or Jiggles the cat. 

2. I Rarely Hear From You Unless You Need Money

1. I wish you were a better writer (I don't read your letters much).

Think back to the last time you sent a gift for a missionary that you had never supported before.  Got it?  How did they respond to you?  Often, missionary responses to first-time gifts fall into these categories.  You get:  

In a day of information overload, many missionaries neglect a maxim from Dawson Trotman, founder of The Navigators:

"Don't do what others can and will do."

Do You Believe It?

Other versions of this motto are: 

"God’s will done in God’s way never lacks God’s supply!"

"Where He guides, He provides!"