SUPPORTING THOSE WHO ARE SUPPORT RAISING

 

Hi there.  My name is Maicy Cacdac, and I work with a mission organisation called Power To Change (formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ). PBC has been supporting me in this ministry since I began in February 2003.

 

I started in this ministry working full time in the Campus Strategy (Macquarie University) for several years.  However, over the last few years, my role has changed to the following 2 roles:

• Campus ministry - mentoring and discipling some of our female campus missionaries around Australia

• Ministry Partner Development Coach (which I am sharing about below)

 

Ministry Partner Development (MPD, aka support raising) is the first "port of call" for all our new missionaries (known as Provisional Missionaries or “PM”s) after they are accepted to work with us. During this time, our PMs are not only looking for those people God has raised to partner with them in the ministry through prayer and financial giving, but He also uses MPD to help prepare them for the work they will be doing in the ministry strategy they will be joining. Along with this, God uses MPD for the most important thing: to stretch the missionary's faith and trust in Him, hence using it to become more like Him. As an MPD coach, I get to journey with our new missionaries as they go through this process.  On the practical side of things, I help set them up for MPD, and teach them about the logistical side of things, as well as pastorally caring for them as God leads me to.

 

One of the married couples I was able to recently coach in their Ministry Partner Development during the first half of this year (2025) was T and M (names omitted and picture of faces covered for security reasons).  Praise God T and M reached their support raising goal during the middle of the year.  Earlier in the year, while they were still doing MPD, I asked T and M to share their answers to the following questions:

 

1) What has God been teaching you so far in this season of MPD?

God has been teaching us the importance of spiritual disciplines regardless of what life throws at you and they are the source of any ministry or life circumstance we are in because we are called to love God first and foremost through thick and thin.

 

2) How has having an MPD coach helped you?

Both of us are not super driven. We need people to encourage us to keep at our goal. Maicy has been constantly reminding us what our goal is - that is to get onto campus as soon as possible because there are so many souls that are lost and waiting for the good news. We are encouraged by her own example of holding fast to God's love too - because no matter what life throws at her, she is full of gratitude and joy because of her firm foundation in God.

 

3) Is there anything else you'd like to share regarding your MPD journey?

We are thankful that God has been shaping us through MPD in that He is teaching us to wait well. When we don't have appointments or our weeks seem a bit slow, God is deepening our trust in him because he acts regardless of our performance. We are assured that He is our shepherd and we lack nothing.

 

I have shared many times before that it's such a privilege to be an MPD coach. To encourage and challenge missionaries like T and M during their Ministry Partner Development, and help them reach their support raising goal, is truly a blessing to me. I am really thankful to have journeyed with so many missionaries thus far in their MPD, as their MPD coach, and I look forward to who else God has prepared for me to coach in the future.

For His glory always!!