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in determining the amount of funding necessary to support their
foreign ministry needs. Deputational missionaries, however, are
not required to comply with the exact figures in the budget so
long as they obtain adequate funding for their ministry.
Deputational missionaries are required to file with the DFM
monthly "deputational reports" that detail the offerings received
and the expenses incurred by the missionary. Along with the
deputational report, missionaries forward the net cash offerings
and receipts verifying the offerings and expenses. Additionally,
during their deputational ministry, missionaries prepare a field
budget approximating the amount of mission-related expenses they
will incur in the foreign field. Once a missionary departs for
the foreign field, the DFM advances funds to the missionary from
his or her DFM missionary account to cover the anticipated
mission expenses. Missionaries in the foreign field are required
to file quarterly field reports with the DFM explaining how the
budget advances were spent.
During both deputational and foreign field ministry, the DFM
records the reported expenses and the pledges received on behalf
of the missionaries and mails monthly disbursement statements to
each missionary detailing the missionaries' total pledged support
and expenses.
Missionaries are free to resign at any time. However,
missionaries are not entitled to the balance of their DFM account
upon resignation. Rather, a resigning missionary may reallocate
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