Church Service Missionaries are those missionaries that servce non-proselyting missions by doing humanitarian, educational, leadership training, or technical missions. Full-time Church Service Missionaries are called and sent out to serve like full-time proselyting missions. They go over the whole globe helping Mormons and non-Mormons. The Mormon Church has a vast program that oversees all the Church humanitarian causes worldwide. They accepts gifts in cash, in kind, or through time devoted to helping their causes. Since this program is primarily done through volunteer missions, and the Church uses its money to fund all administrative costs, one hundred percent of donations is given to the needy.

Church Service Missionaries are much in demand and there can never be too many. The Church encourages all eldery couples to serve either a full or part-time mission. Serving a humanitarian mission not only helps others, it helps us grow closer to other people and to the Lord. It is a fulfillment of what James said about pure religion: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27).

Senior Missionaries

Many Mormons, either remembering how wonderful their youthful mission was, or never having had the chance, go on missions when they retire. In the Church, these missionaries are often called ”Senior Missionaries”. They also go two by two, though generally their companion is their spouse. Single, widowed, or divorced seniors can also fulfill missions for the Church. Many senior, both individuals and couples, can do local, part-time missions volunteering for humanitarian projects, or staffing visitor centers and genealogy libraries. Many senior couples also love serving full-time missions away from home. They do proselyting missions, humanitarian missions, or leadership missions where they teach and train local members in how to be better leaders in their communities.

Like young missionaries, Senior Missionaries will spend time at an Missionary Training Center. They serve within a particular mission under a Mission President, though often they may report to someone else as well who oversees their particular field. So, for example, a humanitarian couple will work with the Mormon Church’s large humanitarian program. Also like young missionaries, Senior Missionaries pay their own way. Many save up for years to go. Many couples also serve multiple missions, taking time off in between missions to spend time with their children and grandchildren. Even though they recognize the hardships of missionary life and being separated from grandchildren, Senio Missionaries love the chance to serve the Lord with their years of experience, knowledge, and faith. Senior Missionaries are always needed and encouraged to go. Often, they are allowed to select where, or what type of mission they will fulfill.

Every Member a Missionary

This phrase is generally associated with former Mormon Prophet, President David O. McKay. It refers to responsiblity of all members to preach the Gospel through their words and deeds. In 1958, President David O. McKay said:

:It is generally understood that every member of the Church should be a missionary. He is probably not authorized to go from house to house, but he is authorized, by virtue of his membership, to set a proper example as a good neighbor. Neighbors are watching him. Neighbors are watching his children. He is a light, and it is his duty not to have that light hidden under a bushel, but it should be set up on a hill that all men may be guided thereby.
:Conference Report, October 1958, 93

Mormons believe that we should share the truth and power of the Gospel with everyone they meet. The Lord said to Joseph Smith, the Prophet, “Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor” (Doctrine & Covenants 88:81). Since Mormons know that their message is from God and is for all mankind. Therefore, they share it will Christians and non-Christians. To non-Christians they share the testimony of Jesus Christ, the Savior of all mankind. To Christians, they say, Our Savior, Jesus Christ, has spoken again and has an important message for mankind today.