To SEND ON THE WAY — a semi-technical word in the early church for equipping a traveller for the next leg of a journey: food, money, letters of introduction, sometimes an escort. It is the material engine of the whole early Christian mission. 3 John 6 tells Gaius he 'will do well to send them on their way (PROPEMPSAS) worthily of God,' and verse 8 turns the act into a theology: to support such travellers is to become 'FELLOW WORKERS with the truth.' The one who never leaves home but funds the one who does is a partner in the mission, not a spectator to it. Paul uses the same verb repeatedly of being outfitted by a church for onward travel (Romans 15:24; 1 Corinthians 16:6, 11; Titus 3:13). → first discussed at 3 John 1:6