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You may find it helpful to review some of the available materials on the biblical examples of missionary fundraising in scripture and the practical advantages of MTD in today’s world.
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Set your attitude: Boldness
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Jeff writes further, “In order to return to full-time ministry, we need to meet this goal by July 15.”
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:Use the MTD Goal Setting Worksheet to help you figure out a good deadline.
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Prep: It Takes Time!
Common mistake: underestimating the start-up time needed to get to full-time MTD momentum. The following PREP: IT TAKES TIME!
Common mistake: underestimating the “start-up” time needed to get to fulltime MTD momentum. The following checklist is the kind of thing that can be done part-time while you are pulling out of other ministry responsibilities , but may take several weeks:
- Update photos
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- New personal and family photos. Do you need a photographer?
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- Ministry action-shot photos. Do you have enough to give an update story in-person? Shots of a particular person you plan to tell partners about?
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- Update story
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- Reflect:
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- What key success stories and important milestones have you had over the last couple years? Write it, then edit it down until it’s brief and compelling.
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- Do you need/have permission from those you might share about?
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- Do you plan to make a new
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- MTD presentation book to represent some of the stories?
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- Scrub your database
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- Add information that you’ve previously forgotten to add
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- Check the giving situation of each partner and take up-to-date notes
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- Re-sort names. Compile a list in order
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- Update contact information! It can fall out-of-date so quickly. Do you have an up-to-date
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- email address, phone number
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- and mailing address for each name on your list? Begin strategies to update them. Consider Reliant’s current data, Facebook, contact through friends, calling churches, etc.
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- Write a letter introducing your
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- full-time MTD time before it starts
- Update your missionary profile on Reliant.org (see
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- Solomon page instructions)
- Have you created a missionary profile card to give out at appointments? (see Staffnet instructions)
Game Plan: Who to contact in the right order
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- Partners = current recurring gift financial partners
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- Prayer Partners = the
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- wider mailing list; receive regular prayer updates; may give special gifts
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- Former Partners = previously gave on a committed basis
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- but don’t any longer
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- Alumni = student or individual impacted by your campus ministry, church plant, etc. who may have moved on but still have loyalty to your work
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- Current Ministry Participants = appropriate ask of people who currently benefit from your ministry (review
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- biblical concerns and local ministry/church policies first).
Depending on your experience in ministry and your freedom to travel, we recommend the following order orders of priority:Fulltime
Full-time Staff with longer than
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four years since initial MTD
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and time/ability to travel
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1. Current Current Partners
Location A
2. Alumni
3. Current Prayer Partners
4. Former Partners
5. Referrals from Current Partners & Alumni & Prayer Partners
Location B
6. Alumni
7. Current Prayer Partners
8. Former Partners
9. Referrals from Current Partners & Alumni & Prayer Partners in Location B
10. Current Ministry Participants
11. Local networking or other contactsFulltime
Full-time Staff with longer than
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four years since initial MTD
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but restricted time
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to travel
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1. Current Partners
2. Current Ministry Participants
3. Alumni
4. Local networking or other contacts
5. Prayer Partners
6. Former PartnersFulltime
Full-time Staff with less than
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four years since initial MTD
1. All Pending Names from Initial MTD
2. Current Ministry Participants or Recent Alumni
3. Revisit Sending Churches, Recent Name Pools
4. Current Partners & Prayer Partners
5. Referrals as received from all of above
Contact Reliant for an MTD Action Plan tool for additional strategy questions.
Resource
Use the Location Detail Worksheet to help plan trips and strategy.
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COMMUNICATE EARLY, CONCRETELY, AND OFTEN
This is your chance to continue to turn donors into partners. Donors passively sit on the sidelines, and we fear that they will withdraw funding if they see ineffectiveness or something they do not like in the ministry. Partners, on the other hand, have a sense of ownership or stake in the ministry. Even though they are not on the front lines, they see challenges as problems as their own—ones they want to help solve.
A staff member approaching funding thinking of “donors” may think of them as the opposing team, to be played with good strategy and a fear of loss. Thinking instead of “partners” puts them on the SAME team, and each partner becomes a possible ambassador for our funding. To engage and activate our partners’ participation with the fulltime MTD push, we need to communicate early, concretely, and regularly through the process.
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