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This page is for providing clarity around what to do when a missionary in initial MTD is considering a change in MTD. That change may be how many hours they are putting towards MTD, a change in employment hours, pausing MTD efforts for a time, being released to assignment before reaching 100%, and more. The following outlines the roles and individuals who may or should be involved in the changes that are being considered or made.

Missionary in MTD

Employment changes should be thoughtfully and prayerfully made. If the missionary is considering employment changes that are being influence by Covid-19, fear, anxiety, etc., then those changes should be discerned, prayed over, and discussed with their supervisor and when appropriate the Program Team Leader.

Coach

For the missionary in Initial MTD, the Coach is often the first person to hear the missionary's thoughts.  Or the coach may be first to bump into absences, or performance issues. Ultimately, changes in employment choices need to be approved, perhaps guided by the local supervisor and/or the Program Leader. 

As coach, you still may wish to help the missionary process potential changes they are considering by asking good questions.  When adjustments are made due to growth in the MTD fund, or due to having less funds than expected, you see the numbers and may wish to help the fund-raiser project their situation in future months.   When the fund-raiser is incrementally increasing his or her salary based on pre-set strategy, feel free to support that progress. 

However if a fund-raiser starts creating a new strategy due to unexpected circumstances, or fear, the coach's role is to engage the Program team and / or the local supervisor. When a missionary starts asking "is Reliant ok with this?" the coach's role needs to include "let's find out" and engage those who decide if it's okay.  Most often the coach needs to reach out to the Liaison or Vertical leader to ensure they are engaging with the missionary. The missionary also needs to discuss any potential employment changes with their supervisor.

Supervisor

Should be in conversation with the missionary about the MTD efforts and any potential employment changes the missionary wants to make. Most often the missionary is close to the supervisor, and the MTD coach can encourage good interaction between missionary and supervisor.  

Program Teams 

The Program Team Leaders are Mike Swann- Collegiate/ GCC churches, CJ White- US churches and ministries, Cori Crawford Van Oss- International, Matt Elkins Fixed term/100 UPG.

The program teams are responsible to guide HR changes and missionary notifications. Each vertical has unique processing systems with employment services. 

They should be included in conversation on any missionary employment changes that are more drastic, are related to Covid-19, or have a concern attached such as "is Reliant ok with this?"

Paperwork

Employment changes are handled by the Program Teams. When a missionary wishes to adjust employment status, they should reach out their liaison to learn appropriate way to make a change. Many employment changes require a Missionary Change Notification form to be filled out.  For the US and Collegiate verticals you can find that here. For international contact international@reliant.org. 

Adjusting Salary and Support Goal

When the wish is to cut costs on the support goal, this is the first place to look. A fund-raiser can reduce ME bonuses, change "for reimbursement" amount, and seek changes to their salary.  The fundraisers salary can be changed up to 3 times during initial fund-raising. These changes are offered in addition to the normal salary change windows.

Employment Guidelines

We always want to have the employment status on record accurately reflect what the fund-raiser is doing (number of hours they are working).   Yes, this may be approximate and vary slightly week to week.  However, we never record someone as part-time, when they are in fact working full-time. Reliant is responsible to do its best to accurately reflect the amount of hours being worked and pay its workers accordingly. The variable that any worker can tap into is the adjustment of salary.  

If you are seeking further clarity in a particular situation you have, please email MTD@reliant.org.