Important Dates to Know
February 1 – 1099 Forms and other tax documentation for the 2025 tax year will be available on SecureCloud.
February 1 – January Financial Reports will be due for Non-Resident Missionaries.
March 1 – January Financial Reports will be due for US Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.
March 1 – February Financial Reports will be due for Non-Resident Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.
April 13-17, 2026 – Family Fellowship Week in Sophia, NC.
For easy access to all of these dates, click here to download our WWNTBM Dates and Deadlines Calendar into your calendar app.
New Excel Template for US Missionaries
A new Excel template for the year 2026 has been uploaded to SecureCloud. If you need a template with extra travel logs, please let the office know and we can provide you with one.
January financial reports for US Missionaries will be due on March 1. If you have not yet submitted your January report, please be sure to utilize the new template for all future reports.
Click here to view a Financial Report Checklist to ensure you are filling out your MFRs correctly. This checklist is also available in the Secure Cloud folder named Forms and Manuals.
Benefits of Financial Reports for US Citizens
The Monthly Financial Report (MFR) is the tool that US Citizen Missionaries can use to become accountable to WWNTBM for their reimbursable expenses rather than having all funds listed as personal earnings. Over the course of 2025, 69% of those eligible chose to submit MFRs. By doing so, they were able to reduce their 1099 Personal Earnings by a combined average of 23.10%. If you are not currently utilizing MFRs and would like information about how to begin, please contact our office.
New Mileage Rate
Beginning on January 1st, the IRS mileage rate has increased to $0.725 per mile for business/ministry miles. This change will be reflected in the new 2026 Excel template.
Preparing and Filing Taxes for US Missionaries
Please note that while our Office Staff is familiar with many of the IRS regulations that affect missionaries, we are not authorities on the subject. We will attempt to assist our missionaries in any way possible; however, questions that are beyond the scope of your mission’s status are best directed to a tax professional.
We will provide you with the following information at the end of January. You may wish to submit this to your tax preparer:
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- A copy of your 1099
- A year-to-date Summary of the MFR information that you have submitted to the Office. This can be especially helpful if you have completed Categories 17-22, as many of those categories can affect your personal taxes. This will show your Personal Earnings Calculations for the year, as well as Housing Allowance information and details of estimated taxes we may have submitted for you during the year. There may also be notices on this document specifically for you and your tax preparer about any situations we are aware of that may impact your tax filing.
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You should also provide your tax preparer with the following:
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- List of the dates that you were in the US vs. out of the country during the year.
- Details of any Housing Expenses, to be used in addition to the Approved
- Housing Allowance for completing Worksheet 1 of IRS Publication 517.
- Information on any retirement plans that you may have contributed to during the year, or that you have received a distribution from during the year.
- Names and Social Security Numbers of all family members.
- Names and dates of any family births or deaths (children and spouses), as well as whether you were married during the year.
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US Treasury Department regulations require that if you have any foreign bank accounts, and if the sum total of all of your foreign accounts has ever been $10,000 or more at any time during the year, you should file the FBAR via FinCEN’s BSA E-Filing System. Further information is available on the IRS website at www.irs.gov.
You may also need to complete Form 8938, which deals with foreign assets.
If you participated in the Healthcare Marketplace, you will need to provide your tax preparer with Form 1095-A.
Family Fellowship Week
Family Week is fast approaching! We are excited to see the plans coming together, and we hope you are planning to attend. The week will begin with dinner on Monday evening, April 13, and will end with the Thursday night service. There will be free time in the afternoons so you and your family can enjoy the facilities or take in local attractions. Attendees are asked to stay for the entire week. Check-out will be Friday morning after breakfast.
If you have not yet contacted us to reserve your spot please do so ASAP by emailing Hannah Brenneman. Your final plans regarding attendance for you and any guests need to be communicated to our office by February 1, 2026. Changes made after this date will affect our contract billing with the retreat center. Click here to see more information and details about the week. We look forward to seeing you there!
New Missionary!
We are pleased to welcome Matthew and Anna Risinger to the World Wide family. The Risingers are members of the Fellowship Baptist Church of South Bend in South Bend, IN, with Pastor Stephen Wesco. They plan to serve the Lord in Cameroon. They have two children, Abraham and Janica, and a baby due in April.
Prayer Requests and Special Days
Click here to download a PDF of prayer requests and praises, as well as the birthdays and anniversaries for this month.
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