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Once everyone has had a chance to share, we recommend taking the leftover time to walk through some specific strategies and skills that will be helpful long term. This week, we recommend going over what's called the "Magic Number". Please see below for some content to cover (and feel free to share this page with missionaries to read themselves)

Magic Number

The average gift you would need monthly per donor if you were to cap your support team at 60-75 people. 

This naturally leads those raising toward a larger goal to be asking for larger investments. 

How to calculate your Magic Number:

• Take your total monthly support goal (make sure it’s updated!)
• Divide your goal by 70 (or 75 if both you and your spouse will work MTD, or 60 if it's just you raising and you struggle to reach out to many people).
• This will give you the average dollar amount you should be challenging new and current donors to give. 
  **If a supporter is already giving above your magic number, please continue to ask them for an increase. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you to an amount.**

Example:

$7,000/month support goal divided by 70 =$100. That means the amount you ask people to give (or increase to), should be right around $100/month. *If your magic number is below $100, it's recommended you still ask most people to prayerfully consider giving "$100, or some other amount." 

Why does it matter? 

First off, it works. Donors feel honored and missionaries become funded.

Our support team feels honored while giving us the capacity to continually cultivate with a discipleship mindset. This means personal phone calls and knowing our supporters, as well as them knowing us. We simply cannot do this well if we have too many people on our support team. This is where the Magic Number comes in. By intentionally asking people to invest generously, we create the space to honor our supporters by investing generously into them. 

It builds long-term sustainability. When a raise or budget increase occurs, current donors are naturally engaged in increase asks vs seeking out more and more new donors to join the team